Not Eclipse Photos

[yourlibrarian]

We weren't in the eclipse path but it did get shadowy where we were. We went outside to take some photos and I rather liked the results.

Comments

[shirebound]

I like your results too. :)

[yourlibrarian]

\o/

[ravengown]

That second one (first under the cut) is so cool to me! Thanks for sharing!

[yourlibrarian]

Yeah that was a stroke of luck! There were a lot of contrails that day -- I suspect the pilots wanted to see the eclipse 😉

[full_metal_ox]

I’m reminded of a passage from the science fiction short story “Noise”, by Jack Vance:

I hear a throb of sound, plangent, plaintive; I turn my head. The east glows pale pearl. A silver globe floats up into the night like a lotus drifting on a lake: a great ball like six of Earth’s full moons. Is this a sun, a satellite, a burnt-out star? What a freak of cosmology I have chanced upon!

The silver sun—I must call it a sun, although it casts a cool satin light—moves in an aureole like oyster-shell. Once again the color of the planet changes. The lake glistens like quicksilver, the trees are hammered metal…

[pauraque]

I love how you can see the reflected crescent sun in the first one!

[yourlibrarian]

We had no idea what we were going to get, so were surprised by the variety of images.

[yourlibrarian]

How pretty!

[cmcmck]

These worked rather well!

[yourlibrarian]

It was a surprising set!

[scintilla10]

Ooh, great photos! Thanks for sharing!

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you enjoyed them!