{"id":363594,"date":"2026-01-11T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:12:06","slug":"photographer-over-the-moon-with-et-picture-recreation-two-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363594\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer over the Moon with ET picture recreation two years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer says he is &#8220;over the Moon&#8221; after recreating an iconic scene from the movie ET in a photo that has been almost two years in the making. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Meighan and his friend Nathan Edwards have tried repeatedly to recreate the scene from the 1982 hit film, when Elliott&#8217;s BMX &#8211; with ET riding in the basket &#8211; flies by the Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The planets finally aligned during last weekend&#8217;s first full Moon of the year, when plasterer Edwards pushed his bike uphill and into position on Eglwysilan Mountain, Rhondda Cynon Taf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Meighan watched through his viewfinder from 1.4 miles (2.3km) away on a residential street in Treforest, Pontypridd, while the pair kept in contact by phone &#8211; attracting the attention of curious householders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer says he is &#8220;over the Moon&#8221; after recreating an iconic scene from the movie ET in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-363594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}