January 29, 2010, northeast Ohio enjoyed the rare sight of a Wolf Moon accompanied by Mars rising. It was a Friday then as well and I had hiked into the far end of Schweitzer Marsh shortly before sunset hoping to get a good view. Facing southeast across a stretch of ice where I had tracked coyotes earlier that week, it was a particularly cold evening as the temperature had dipped to about 10 degrees.

In an unnerving moment, a coyote let out a single howl behind me just as the landscape began to saturate with an otherworldly, lavender hue ... a fascinating phenomenon as the color arrived with numinous, almost palpable weight, quite unlike the shades of red and orange in other seasons that filter through the dense atmosphere at sunrise and sunset. Indeed, short wavelengths of blue and violet typically scatter at those times of day and cannot be seen. The lavender disappeared in less than an hour as abruptly as it had arrived.

Year: 2010
Location: Schweitzer Marsh
Limited Edition of 20
Dimensions: 11" × 16.5"
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Collector’s Edition of 10
Dimensions: 16" × 24"