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Post by marcl on Apr 8, 2024 18:16:24 GMT -5
When we photographed out first solar eclipse in Charleston, SC (2017) I had spotted a bottle of this whiskey on the top shelf of an Irish pub near us and after a very intense three hours operating three cameras, we went back and I asked for a shot. I didn't pay attention when he said it was $70 ... didn't care. Came home and found two bottles in England and had them shipped. We drank one along the way. So what better day to open the other .... Batch #1, Tree #7, Bottle #475.  |
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Post by 405x5 on Apr 8, 2024 18:25:52 GMT -5
When we photographed out first solar eclipse in Charleston, SC (2017) I had spotted a bottle of this whiskey on the top shelf of an Irish pub near us and after a very intense three hours operating three cameras, we went back and I asked for a shot. I didn't pay attention when he said it was $70 ... didn't care. Came home and found two bottles in England and had them shipped. We drank one along the way. So what better day to open the other .... Batch #1, Tree #7, Bottle #475. View AttachmentVery cool! Hardly the first photograph. I thought I’d see coming from you after today’s celestial event but a great story nonetheless lol |
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Post by dougport on Apr 8, 2024 18:30:32 GMT -5
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Post by marcl on Apr 8, 2024 18:34:45 GMT -5
This was our maximum peeking through the clouds at 4:21. If you can't have totality, some dramatic clouds are very nice to have! Now to look through the other 1400 photos 🙂 500mm f/5.6 1/5s ISO 64,000  |
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Post by geebo on Apr 8, 2024 19:13:06 GMT -5
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Post by 405x5 on Apr 8, 2024 19:18:04 GMT -5
Well I know politics are taboo here but I thought this was funny. The mods can delete it. ….. Even if it goes away, IT put a big smile on my face…… Rules be damned |
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Post by monkumonku on Apr 8, 2024 20:07:13 GMT -5
Another picture of the big event:  |
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Post by PaulBe on Apr 8, 2024 20:17:22 GMT -5
Goes best with a cervesa. |
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Post by MusicHead on Apr 8, 2024 20:53:09 GMT -5
Semi-crappy picture of the eclipse in the Boston area. Taken with my Samsung S22, lens screened by the eclipse-ready glasses, 3x optical zoom and some cropping. I was at work, so this is the best I could do from my office building parking lot...  |
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Post by dcg44s on Apr 8, 2024 21:38:02 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to be within the path of totality and in one of the first places in the US to have a view. It was cloudy but we got lucky and had enough breaks in the cloud cover to see the whole show. I simply walked outside at work and plopped my butt down in a vintage lawn chair. It was wild to see all the lights hooked up with photocell sensors come on in the afternoon.
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Post by 405x5 on Apr 9, 2024 6:31:09 GMT -5
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Post by marcl on Apr 9, 2024 6:41:51 GMT -5
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Post by lhracing on Apr 9, 2024 7:44:37 GMT -5
In Utah this is what we had.  |
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Post by 405x5 on Apr 9, 2024 13:04:40 GMT -5
So eclipse 2024 ended up, giving me everything I had hoped for that afternoon……
It wasn’t looking up at the thing that gave me as much satisfaction as the Erie change that occurred in the environment that I go trail hiking in.
Beautiful, wooded trails that I never grow tired of covering, which takes me about two hours each time I go with the timing just right my walk that day began coinciding with the start of the eclipse. The place was even more dead, quiet than it normally is anyway with people anticipating something even though in most ways, it was a big nothing, but the peace and quiet was for me. What made it in reality so extraordinary.
One of those things (and who would think of it) that I found interesting was the way that shadows as I walked or cast differently that I’m used to seeing…… My own shadow being razor sharp, and defined clearly from the changes that were occurring above a strange fascination in and of itself. A great afternoon to be had outdoors, even though I barely looked up but once lol.
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Post by klinemj on Apr 10, 2024 8:38:57 GMT -5
My wife, mother-in-law, and I LOVED the eclipse. The whole experience was amazing. It was a very warm day for early-April Lima, OH...over 70. We felt the temperature drop big time, and the thrill of totality was better than I expected. We had thin, wispy clouds but they didn't interfere with the view. And, owls started hooting during totality!
We got nearly 4 minutes of totality...and traffic getting back home wasn't bad on the backroads. The highways were very busy, though...we stayed off those.
Mark
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Post by novisnick on Apr 11, 2024 22:27:38 GMT -5
My picture of the eclipse looks pretty good!
I’ve got a bad feeling about this Needs the quotation marks! LOL |
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Post by markc on Apr 11, 2024 23:33:00 GMT -5
The truth is that up to a 99.9% solar eclipse is an interesting curiosity but you wonder what the fuss is about.
Experiencing a Total eclipse is a whole different world of an experience and I would encourage everyone to make an effort.
(We all know that the tiniest chink of light coming through the gap in the curtains allows one to see pretty well in a supposedly dark room.
So it is with any part of the sun uncovered and light reaching you, so that last tiny part of the sun being covered to attain 100% means everything .)
I was lucky to have factored the (now) world famous Mazatlán into my Mexican backpacking tour and we had clear skies for the crucial 5 minutes and wispy cloud the rest of the time so experienced it all.
I had to tell some ignorami from north of the border to turn their music off - they incorrectly thought it was a visual event rather than the multi sensory one it is.
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