Photographer Osama Fathi has produced a pair of breathtaking images showing the dramatic transformation of the moon during the total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, as it fell into the deepest part of Earth's shadow above the White Desert National Park in Egypt.

A lunar eclipse takes place when Earth passes directly between the sun and moon during a full moon phase, casting its shadow across the lunar surface. The most dramatic moment occurs as the moon slips entirely into our world's inner shadow, known as the umbra, and is bathed in the combined light of every sunrise and sunset on Earth, transforming it into a red, blood moon.

Fathi captured the Sept. 7-8 lunar eclipse using a combination of three lenses as the moon rose high over the White Desert's chalk formations. "Standing under a blood

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