Photographer Mike Mezeul II produced this composite time lapse image of the lunar eclipse over a bluebonnet field in Ennis, Texas on April 15. Mezeul photographed the eclipse in 10 minutes intervals, spending a total of seven hours in the field capturing the moon's transitions.
"It was somewhere around 4 a.m., I was standing in the middle of this bluebonnet field, freezing my tail off," he recalls. "I started to have doubts that the shot I had imagined wouldn't come together. I wondered to myself, 'what in the heck am I doing here?'"
But Mezuel pulled it off. Tuesday's total lunar eclipse was the first in more than two years to turn the moon into a cosmic red ball, and skywatchers everywhere went out to witness the phenomenon.
