That was so cool!
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nwhikerI'll try to post some photos tomorrow or the next day, but man, that eclipse was SO cool.
Things didn't go as perfectly as they could have, but it was fine nonetheless.
We got up at 4:30am and were out of the hotel by 5. Drove south-east out of Bend. The weather was predicted to be iffy, but eh, we figured we'd try.
We found a place with a decent east facing exposure with plenty of time to spare and set up the camera for eclipse photos.
The sky, at that point, was pretty close to clear and we were hopeful we'd get to see the eclipse.
Nibble, went the moon. Nibble nibble bite.
We got some good photos, it was great. The wind picked up a bit and...
About 20 minutes before the Ring of Fire (imagine the proper tone of voice!) a bank of clouds rolled it. It was so fast and completely covered the sun.
Well, crap.
We packed up and headed north a bit, in hopes of catching a better view. I was looking at the sun through the clouds with my sunglasses -not the eclipse glasses- and noticed that I could kinda see things. So we stopped at the next possible pullout and watched the rest of the eclipse with just sunglasses, it was fine, taking photos with the camera without the sun filter.
It was so incredibly beautiful. It looked like a bright ring floating in the sky in front of the clouds.
It was significantly darker too. Not as much as the total eclipse, of course, but dusk/dawn level. The birds were mostly quiet though one called before and after, I've heard it before, I always thought it was a whip-poor-will but apparently those are East Coast birds. Again, not as distinct as with the total eclipse, but there was a feeling of... a pause in the natural order of things.
Most of our photos weren't bright orange like some of the ones I've seen only, not quite sure why. Something to debug before the total eclipse next April.
Wow.
What was funny. When we were actively watching, and wandering around to press the shutter on the camera, I was so very cautious of wearing my eclipse glasses. And then I suddenly laughed at myself. It's not like I stare at the sun often, in real life. So I relaxed a bit and just put the glasses back on when I was actively looking at the sun.
So yeah, the clouds were not welcome, and I'd have loved to see the full eclipse -and photograph the full eclipse0 without them, but it was a different and beautiful experience anyhow. I feel quite lucky.
Things didn't go as perfectly as they could have, but it was fine nonetheless.
We got up at 4:30am and were out of the hotel by 5. Drove south-east out of Bend. The weather was predicted to be iffy, but eh, we figured we'd try.
We found a place with a decent east facing exposure with plenty of time to spare and set up the camera for eclipse photos.
The sky, at that point, was pretty close to clear and we were hopeful we'd get to see the eclipse.
Nibble, went the moon. Nibble nibble bite.
We got some good photos, it was great. The wind picked up a bit and...
About 20 minutes before the Ring of Fire (imagine the proper tone of voice!) a bank of clouds rolled it. It was so fast and completely covered the sun.
Well, crap.
We packed up and headed north a bit, in hopes of catching a better view. I was looking at the sun through the clouds with my sunglasses -not the eclipse glasses- and noticed that I could kinda see things. So we stopped at the next possible pullout and watched the rest of the eclipse with just sunglasses, it was fine, taking photos with the camera without the sun filter.
It was so incredibly beautiful. It looked like a bright ring floating in the sky in front of the clouds.
It was significantly darker too. Not as much as the total eclipse, of course, but dusk/dawn level. The birds were mostly quiet though one called before and after, I've heard it before, I always thought it was a whip-poor-will but apparently those are East Coast birds. Again, not as distinct as with the total eclipse, but there was a feeling of... a pause in the natural order of things.
Most of our photos weren't bright orange like some of the ones I've seen only, not quite sure why. Something to debug before the total eclipse next April.
Wow.
What was funny. When we were actively watching, and wandering around to press the shutter on the camera, I was so very cautious of wearing my eclipse glasses. And then I suddenly laughed at myself. It's not like I stare at the sun often, in real life. So I relaxed a bit and just put the glasses back on when I was actively looking at the sun.
So yeah, the clouds were not welcome, and I'd have loved to see the full eclipse -and photograph the full eclipse0 without them, but it was a different and beautiful experience anyhow. I feel quite lucky.
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