Last night, Jan. 19th, as photographer Laurent Laveder was positioning his camera in front of the Tronoen Chapel in Brittany, France, he received a text message from his stepdaughter Manon. "Look at the Moon! :o)" she typed. "She didn't know I already was!" says Laveder. Click here to view the movie he recorded, entitled Wolf Moon Rising:

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© Laurent Laveder
It's called the Wolf Moon because of folklore: northern Native Americans named it after packs of singing wolves they once heard during the winter month of January. "For years, I've been meaning to catch the Wolf Moon rising," says Laveder. "I'm glad I finally did!"

Browse the links for more Wolf Moonshots: from Anthony Ayiomamitis of Athens, Greece; from Keith Breazeal of Amador County, California.; from Azhy Hasan of Erbil City in the Kurdistan region of Iraq; from Mike Caplan of Wadsworth, IL; from Mark Seibold of Sandy, Oregon; from Pete Lawrence of Selsey, West Sussex, UK; from Stefano De Rosa of Turin (Italy); from Àlex Roca of Hortoneda, Lleida, Spain