During his presidency, Barack Obama granted clemency to 1,715 inmates, most of whom were serving inhumanely long sentences for non-violent drug offenses. What happened next? Well, thanks to Nation of Second Chances, those stories are now being told, one life at a time.

One could be forgiven for not giving the moon its due more regularly. After all, it’s always just … there. But like most things these days, perhaps we should be looking down at our screens less, and up at our skies more? With nothing more than a telescope and some charm, one man invited strangers to do just that.

We tend to err on the side of tropical escapism when it comes to our mid-winter Instagram follows, but photographer and visual effects artist Jaume Creus’ richly-lit feed paints an appropriately moody picture of Vancouver’s (more often than not) rain-slicked city streets.