ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This ultra-rare Total Lunar Eclipse Blood Moon appeared in the crisp, clear skies of Arizona's Sonoran Desert last October. The phenomenon turned the full moon a deep, fiery red, which played beautifully against the needled green of the cactus. But the framing suggested that black-and-white moon and succulent would shine just as bright as their full-color relatives . . . and they did not disappoint.

AUTHOR
Shane Gericke is a double-barrel artist: an award-winning landscape photographer and a bestselling crime novelist. He learned the mysteries of Tri-X Pan film in high school, when he began covering sports for the local weekly paper. He graduated to the adrenaline rush of big-city dailies, most prominently as an editor and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times. He left newspapering to write bestselling crime novels like Blown Away and The Fury, but never lost his love of framing a subject in photographs and words. The Chicago native recently traded his snowblower for the high deserts of Arizona, where he delights in the photographic opportunities of mountains, rocks, and sand even as he wilts in the staggering heat. www.shanegericke.com

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