Hello Hiveians!
As usual, it's been a little while since my last post, but I wanted to share some of my photos of the Total Solar Eclipse in North America! (late on posting this as well)
So I knew this eclipse was happening for years, but didn't put too much thought into it or what I would do until pretty much a month or so before. I decided the best idea would be to go about 4 hours North to New Hampshire to get about 3 minutes of totality. We went up to our house in New Hampshire and spent the night there to get an early stat on the day of the eclipse.
Eclipse day had come, and I had my cameras ready as well as my ND 1,000,000 solar filter to photograph the sun before totality. I decided to use my A6000 APS-C camera as well as my Olympus EM-10II Micro 4/3 camera, for the crop factors paired with my canon 70-200mm F4 L lens.
We left the house early and went to grab a bite in town before we'd head to our destination. After that, we hit the road for our 2 hour drive even further North.
I was worried about traffic on the way up, and luckily there was pretty much none, but we'd pay for that later.
After a couple hours more of driving we reached the area of totality that we wanted, now the question was where to set up. The town was as expected, packed. And most places were trying to charge to park, so we scoped out some side roads for a bit until finally settling on a little pond parking lot that wasn't the most scenic in the direction of the eclipse, but it would do just fine.
We parked and setup the chairs and then my friend wanted decided that he wanted to prove he still had that "dog in him" and try to jump across a 10 foot or so stream of freezing cold water. Against our opinions, he decided to go for it, and he actually made it, but then fell back in because there wasn't enough to grip on the landing. This was the result:
Luckily he didn't get hurt and he hung up his clothes to dry.
After that event, we settled in and prepped for the eclipse.
As the time inched closer and closer you could see the light dimming ever so slightly, the air noticeably cooling, and then you could see sporadic light waves reflecting off the ground, assumingly the light diffracting off the craters of the moon.
And then; totality.
In an instant, day had turned to night as the moon completely blotted out the sun. It was an unreal experience. You could even see the solar prominences of the sun with the naked eye.
And this was our experience I captured with my GoPro.
And just as quickly as it came, it had left and the sun had made it's return, but not before I caught Baileys Beads.
It was a once in a lifetime experience and the sense of awe and wonder it had struck is hard to put into words. Almost as hard as the traffic that we faced on the way back.
Heading to my house in New Hampshire is usually about 1:45 and it took us about 4 hours just get there. Then my friends who went back to Boston didn't get home til about 1am, where as we left the eclipse at 4pm. It was truly insane.
That's about it for this one, I hope you enjoyed! Did you get to see this eclipse? Have you ever seen one? Let me know and let me know what you think of the shots I managed to capture!
As always, til next time!
-Sean