The cycles of the Moon and Sun regulate our lives, our world, our existence. And while they may show their faces with clockwork regularity, there is nothing ordinary in the moments of unexpected beauty they sometimes show us. Collected here are various images of these celestial bodies.
A midwinter's full moon falls into shadow during a lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019 (Raleigh, NC)
November 19, 2021, partial lunar eclipse (Raleigh, NC)
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouds the morning landscape, cloaking the sun so that it could be directly photographed without a solar filter. This image was taken early in my term as an Artist in Residence at Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
October 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse over the Lower South Desert, just prior to maximum eclipse (Artist in Residence, Capitol Reef National Park, UT)
At maximum eclipse
Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter, February 22, 2023
Harvest Supermoon rising over the Cathedrals (Artist in Residence, Capitol Reef National Park, UT)
Red solar prominences leap out from the hidden sun as beads of light breaking through the moon's valleys signal the end of totality in the April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse (Bellbrook, OH)
Total lunar eclipse, November 8, 2022