Thanks Joel. It was amazing and I'm still trying to mentally process what I witnessed. I've described it as "surreal", you are right in that no picture, video, or written description can come close to the actual experience. I was trembling during totality, wept openly. I was overcome and still can't think about it without being filled with emotions. It will be a winter project for me, getting everything cleaned-up and organized, I have so many files to go through. Shooting two cameras on one mount, one video and the other stills. We kept an eye on things visually with my little Unitron 105, using a Lunt wedge. I had a home-made solar viewer (Baader film) for naked-eye views. We met a young couple from Hong Kong on the observing field. The husband is an umbraphile and they travel all over the world chasing total eclipses, this was his sixth. He had a small, home-made tracking mount with a Nikon camera and telephoto lens attached. It all breaks-down so he can take it on the plane as carry-on, along with their tent and camping gear. I have a pic somewhere and will post a link to it when I find it and get it cleaned-up. On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Joel Stucki <joel.stucki@gmail.com> wrote:
Absolutely amazing and it still doesn't do justice to how amazing it was to see it in person. It's just something that can't quite be captured on film. But these do a very good job at trying and are some of the best I have seen so far. On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:38 PM Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I've got hundreds of stills and hours of video to process, but have a couple just to share.
Here's a link to a short Photobucket slideshow.
What an experience, eh? I was awake for 36 hours, finally got to bed at midnight last night, and slept until noon! The only bad part was the drive home. Slow, bumper-to-bumper traffic from Thornton Idaho to Ogden Utah.
We were only about 600 meters from the centerline.
photobucket.com/user/JethroTull1958/slideshow/ATM/Solar%20Eclipse?sort=3