I’m ready!!! You?

Are you ready? I am! The sun and moon are coming together to make a show—or at least 95% of a show. I had thought of heading south to see the eclipse but decided against it once I realized that the trip would be four and a half hours one way. I was also concerned about the crowds or traffic I would run into.

My brother had purchased a fancy solar telescope for the event but could not use is at the location he was viewing the eclipse from.  He was kind to loan it to me for the day.  The images below were taken with my canon R5 and an 80-200mm lens with a special solar filter.  The images are shown in reverse order.



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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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