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Almost
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It's almost over...or has it almost begun? This was a photo taken during the Great American Eclipse of 2017, as seen from the swampy-hot Sesquicentennial State Park, outside of Columbia, SC. This was easily the most magical, memorable day of my entire life, and even here a year after the fact, I am still finding bits and pieces from my camera roll that offer new insight into just how much of an information overload an eclipse can actually be for a guy like me. I remember as the camera shutter clicked and I saw this through my lens, I was absolutely elated...and terrified. See those clouds there? They threatened to derail an entire year's worth of careful work and planning targeted directly at getting the most I possibly could out of the scant two minutes of time I had where the sun went dark. I don't remember ever being so terrified and excited at the same time, and I certainly wasn't alone; the gathered crowd screamed at the clouds and shouted at them to go away...and by some miracle, they did. Still, even when the clouds eked in and gently obscured the event, it resulted in beautiful scenery just like what you see here.
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Black Hole Sun
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Totality is such a fleeting experience; so much happens in such a short amount of time that it can be absolutely dizzying; as a photographer, that translates to a laundry list of things to be certain of in a very short span of time. Did I take the solar filter off of the lens? Is my lens stabilized? Do I have the ISO and the settings correct? Most importantly...will the weather hold up? The weather was my very biggest concern when shooting the eclipse...and in a stroke of absolutely cosmic luck, we got to see the eclipse surrounded by a halo of clouds. Had we been even a mile or two in any other direction, we wouldn't have seen it...and yet, there it was. Just as the eclipse started to end, the moon moving away from the solar disc, the clouds began to roll in...and as the clouds started to obscure the sun, the brilliant and aptly named "diamond ring" effect (where the sun's light forms a brilliant 'gem' at the apex of the lunar disc) took shape. It took me weeks after the fact to realize I'd even captured the effect, as I pored through all the hundreds and hundreds of eclipse photographs I took, all in the pursuit of that one perfect, shining image. I couldn't be happier that I managed to capture it.
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Celestial Fire
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Sometimes, I like to revisit my old photographs and try to see the what more I can eke out of a given memory...and sometimes, I actually find something truly worth emphasizing. Case in point, this image of our sun, Sol. Here you can see the sun caught in the middle of 2017's Total Solar Eclipse, but this is a part of the sun that we almost never get to truly see...the actual surface. The sun is magnetism gone wild; its enormous jets of flame arc off the surface in patterns that flow along with the star's twisted magnetic field in what are called prominences. These prominences sometimes are big enough that they could swallow the entirety of Earth and then some...and I actually managed to capture some of them, hidden within the bright glare of our sun's corona.
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Hole in the Sky
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This is totality. For two brief minutes, after having spent years of planning, and hours huddled beneath a $4 beach umbrella in the blazing South Carolina sun, the skies finally went dark at 2:39 pm, and I was able to behold the utter majesty of a total solar eclipse. It is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most amazing thing I have ever seen. What you see here is a close-up view of the sun's corona, a 15,000,000 F superheated blanket of magnetized plasma that trails into space in long, curved trails; this is the sun's 'atmosphere', and it can only be seen during a total solar eclipse. Also visible on the righthand side of the sun is a prominence, an enormous loop of superheated plasma arcing from the surface of the sun that could envelop the entirety of our planet Earth; these are also only visible during a total solar eclipse. This may very well have been the most challenging thing I have attempted shooting a photograph of, from the travel and planning required to the expenses paid in acquiring equipment, but it was without a doubt worth it.
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Hole in the Sky
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This is totality. For two brief minutes, after having spent years of planning, and hours huddled beneath a $4 beach umbrella in the blazing South Carolina sun, the skies finally went dark at 2:39 pm, and I was able to behold the utter majesty of a total solar eclipse. It is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most amazing thing I have ever seen. What you see here is a close-up view of the sun's corona, a 15,000,000 F superheated blanket of magnetized plasma that trails into space in long, curved trails; this is the sun's 'atmosphere', and it can only be seen during a total solar eclipse. Also visible on the righthand side of the sun is a prominence, an enormous loop of superheated plasma arcing from the surface of the sun that could envelop the entirety of our planet Earth; these are also only visible during a total solar eclipse. This may very well have been the most challenging thing I have attempted shooting a photograph of, from the travel and planning required to the expenses paid in acquiring equipment, but it was worth it.
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Progression
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This is totality. For two brief minutes, after having spent years of planning, and hours huddled beneath a $4 beach umbrella in the blazing South Carolina sun, the skies finally went dark at 2:39 pm, and I was able to behold the utter majesty of a total solar eclipse. It is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most amazing thing I have ever seen. What you see here is a close-up view of the sun's corona, a 15,000,000 F superheated blanket of magnetized plasma that trails into space in long, curved trails; this is the sun's 'atmosphere', and it can only be seen during a total solar eclipse. Also visible on the righthand side of the sun is a prominence, an enormous loop of superheated plasma arcing from the surface of the sun that could envelop the entirety of our planet Earth; these are also only visible during a total solar eclipse. This may very well have been the most challenging thing I have attempted shooting a photograph of, from the travel and planning required to the expenses paid in acquiring equipment, but it was without a doubt worth it. This is a composite photograph showing the various stages of the total solar eclipse; it represents about two hours of time from the first photograph (on the left) to the last photograph (on the right), and is the product of nearly a thousand photographs taken while sitting in the hot Carolina sun.