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I saw the rising moon lighting-up the anvil canopy of a distant thunderstorm, and waited until the moon broke free. It created a nice effect.
There must have already been a million pictures
of the recent eclipse across the U.S. posted but I'll
add my mine too. I got to view 44 seconds of eclipse
totality from Idaho City, Idaho. Not very crowded.
The eclipse itself was amazing. Dimming and then
an eerie flash of darkness. This picture was taken
just as totality faded.
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I am so sad to be missing the Great American eclipse next week. I really wanted to go but circumstances have plotted against me. To everyone on the other side of the pond have a wonderful cloudless day, I couldn't be greener. I like the double diamond effect caused by the first light from the sun shinning through the valleys on the moon.
This was taken back in 2006 in Libya, when it was still a safe place to visit.
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Lens: Sigma 600mm mirror lens
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” – Mae West (American actress)
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 1st of August is "bling jewellery & accessories". Now, I am not a big fan of gaudy jewellery, but I am fond of stylish statement pieces, and this ring which I have chosen for the theme falls into the latter type, and is my kind of bling. This ring was made in 1933: the deepest year of the Great Depression, yet there is nothing depressing about it as its diamonds and sapphires set in an unusual hexagonal Art Deco setting, the likes of which I never seen before, sparkle and wink. The piece exudes luxury and was made by a very skilled Parisian jeweller. Set in platinum, and attached to an eighteen karat gold band, this French cocktail ring contains ten cushion cut old mine diamonds around a channel of princess cut sapphires. When worn, it sparkles and shimmers and certainly catches the eye, but to make it even more glamourous, I have chosen to set it upon a piece of sequin covered fabric.
The ring was a favoured piece by its owner, and worn to cocktail parties, balls, the opera and social events throughout the 1930s. When the Second World War broke out, it still found its way onto its owner’s finger on occasion when she went dancing at fashionable West End nightclubs like the Café de Paris, or the Ritz or the Dorchester, even as the German bombs of the Blitz hit London. After the War, the ring continued to be worn, but more so at quieter family affairs, society occasions and political events. Most importantly this ring was loved and treasured by its original owner, and is still loved to this very day. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
“A portrait is not made in a camera, but on either side of it.” - Edward Steichen (influential Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator).
When it was my fortieth birthday, some many moons ago, as a gift to myself I commissioned a portrait of myself by a well-known and highly regarded society painter. I decided to wear a theatre jacket I had designed myself, made of Japanese silver and white brocade featuring a pattern of chrysanthemums in hexagons which I wore to a charity ball earlier that year, and I am holding one of my Great Grandmother’s tortoiseshell handled dyed ostrich feather Court fans from 1923. I sat for the artist in three separate day sittings, and she also took photographs of me. I asked her to pay particular attention to my costume, which I am very proud of, and also my jewellery, as I was wearing a mixture of inherited antique family rings and gifts from family for significant birthdays. The rings included an Art Deco cocktail ring of garnets and pearls, several gold and diamond rings, including my Great Grandmother’s engagement ring from the end of the Nineteenth Century, and an Art Deco diamond and sapphire ring set in platinum from Vienna. Not only did the portrait capture my likeness well, it is beautiful, and she has authentically captured the details of my costume and my jewellery.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 22nd of August is "details of a painting" which requires me to photograph things people may miss unless you get up close to it; not the entire painting. When I read the theme, I immediately thought of my fortieth birthday portrait. Although I have several other portraits painted for significant years of my life, this is by far the biggest and hangs just inside the entrance to my house, welcoming guests across the threshold. Being the biggest, it is the one where one could potentially miss those fine details, and because I was especially pleased with the artist’s reproduction of my costume and my jewellery, I have decided to focus on them for this week’s theme. I hope you like my choice, and that it makes you smile!
Composite image of the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Glenrock, WY.
4 images captured during totality used in this composite:
Outer Corona
Solar Prominence's
Earth Shine
Diamond Ring
Captured using Celestron Advanced VX equatorial mount on tethered capture. Nikon Telephoto AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/4D ED-IF manual focus lens with a 1.4:1 teleconverter was used at an effective focal length of 700mm at f5.6 (f8 with teleconverter). Camera: Nikon D800E.
The individual images as well as the eclipse sequence can be viewed in my eclipse montage image here: flic.kr/p/Y6PxLi
I'll add one to the influx of eclipse shots to Flickr tonight :-D
A few weeks ago I had no intention of trying to photograph the eclipse. As it grew closer and I kept hearing about how totality is such an epic experience, I just had to run down to Columbia, SC today to see it for myself. It lived up to ALL the hype and more, but what was even better was the smile on Sydney and Mallory's face. I'm so glad they came with me. We had a nice group hug once it was over too. Anyway, this was my last-minute attempt....nothing special or epic about my shot, lots out there are better...it's the memories that will last.
The year is 1915, and Great Britain has been at war with the Kaiser for a year now. A young, newly minted Officer takes his sweetheart for a day trip to the seaside resort of Brighton before he is shipped out to the front. They wander the promenade and the shops of the town to distract themselves from their inevitable parting. She sees a pretty daisy setting diamond ring in the window of a Brighton jeweller’s shop. He walks in proudly, dressed in his smart new army khaki, and buys the ring for her. When he gives it to her, he asks her to promise to wear it until he comes home again. Knowing that there is a distinct chance that he may not come home, she calls her agreement to his request a “piecrust promise” – easily broken. However, as he slips it on to her finger, she agrees and tells him to keep himself safe and prove that his promise to return is not a piecrust promise either. That is the beginning of the true story for this ring. You will be pleased to hear that when hostilities ended in 1918, the young Officer did return to his sweetheart, and they did get married in 1920 and started a family. She held to her promise, and she wore this ring, which became known as the “piecrust promise ring”, until he came home, and then for a good many years after: her whole life in fact, which was a long and happy one with her husband, that young Officer.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 27th of September is "gemstones". I have many pieces that I have access to that I could photograph for the theme, but I really wanted to share this dainty daisy setting ring of six winking diamonds set in platinum on an eighteen karat band, made in 1914, because it has a happy story associated with it. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
Edwardian jewellery is renowned for its delicate, beautifully crafted designs. In contrast to Victorian jewellery, many pieces created during the Art Nouveau period were made in a very feminine fashion, using finer smaller stones and very light settings made possible by using platinum.
(Private collection).
Just after totality- April 8, 2024. Taken in Southern Okahoma.
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I am still in awe! Last Monday's total solar eclipse was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. I had high expectations, and they were shattered. While I won't be alive the next time this happens in Ohio, I plan on traveling to see a few more moments like this in the decades ahead.
It has been an incredibly busy week, and I am just now getting these images on my computer. However, I had to post the image that grabbed my attention first, which just happened to be the moment totality ended. This was the very second (3:14:24pm to be exact) that the sun started to reappear and the famous "diamond ring" appeared. The corona and solar prominences were still quite visible along with that golden light beaming past the moon. Wow, what a moment! I will have many more images throughout the week. I am also working on finishing a timelapse that shows the entire event down in Findlay, Ohio. Lastly, I will never view a partial eclipse the same way. A partial eclipse is kinda cool. A total eclipse is beyond epic!
(Explore # 206)
We gathered with family at my brother-in-law's & sister-in-law's "cow camp" accessed by 20 some miles of dirt roads deep in the rugged and remote Challis National Forest.There was just us, the horses and the cows, surrounded by beautiful mountains, for 1.11 seconds of eclipse totality. Having never shot an eclipse, I bracketed and changed things up but didn't work it to the point of not enjoying what was going on. Still, I was really hoping I caught the sun's red flare-ups and little diamond ring that I could see through the lens :) The cows roaming around added an interesting element by bedding down for the night as darkness fell with total eclipse! An eerie and overwhelming experience when everything went so cold, dark and still -- nothing to hear but our oohs and awes.
This is a color image.
Start of total eclipse: 18:41:36.8 GMT
Maximum eclipse: 18:42:51.4 GMT
End of total eclipse: 18:44:05.6 GMT
Duration of Totality: 2m28.8s
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm, Nikon TC-14 II, no filter. 1/200 sec at f/8, ISO 125, 550mm.
21 Aug 2017, 18:42:28 (18:42:05+:23) GMT, Columbia, SC, USA.
First try (and based on age, possibly the last) with capturing a total solar eclipse. Tried to capture the "Diamond Ring", the moments just before totality. I was more than happy with the results. Sorry to add to the deluge of eclipse photos that are likely out there today. Hope if you were in the right place at the right time you had a chance to enjoy it.
Thanks for viewing and have a great day!
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I have seen this shot done a hundred times and wanted to give it a try. It was not as easy as it looks! Getting a ring to stand in a book and getting the right shadow is a bit tricky. I also wanted to find a page in the book that enhanced the image and I think I found one...:)
A trip to Willow Point Resort located in Buchanan Dam, TX
Weather predictions for TX were horrible. Obviously, this made it less than optimal to view a total solar eclipse, corona and all.
But, when life hands you lemonade, drink it... in other words, take the photos anyway. Not disappointed.
About this photo: A blend of two images. One at C2 and the other at C3. Both show prominences and Baily's beads. Taken with a Nikon Z9; 600mm 6.3 PF ISO 64
Where were you during the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2024? I was at the Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge in Jackson County, Indiana.
Astrophotographers call this image "the diamond ring." Key in the opening music of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: "dum, Dum, Dummm, DA DUM!"
I got it!
I think photographing "the diamond ring"—which appears at just the moment after the total solar eclipse when the sun creeps its toe out; its corona appears in all its crown glory; solar prominences can be seen shooting out their red plumes, and my camera’s solar lens filter has been temporarily removed because the brilliant sun is covered by the moon–is my gate pass into the international astrophotographer's club, or something like that.
What I had heard so much about finally arrived, the pay off, the end of totality during the 2017 Solar Eclipe. I viewed it with Friends and Family members from "Survey Knob" on Bridger Creek Road near Lysite, Wyoming. Spectacular! No photo does it justice.
This is a composite from the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse. The images are in chronological order from top left to bottom right. Instead of aligning the images in a straight line, I designed a galaxy-like swirl to be more creative and help highlight the diamond ring at the end of totality. You may notice that some of the shades of orange in the partial phases don't match one another. The reason the orange color changed was because of those high cirrus clouds that drifted over the sun at times. Sure, I could have photoshopped them all the same color, but that takes away from some of the uniqueness we enjoyed on that magical day. The images were taken in Findlay, Ohio in the afternoon hours.
Close up Macro shot that I took of wedding rings at a recent wedding I photographed for Davis Photography.
Overall I was pretty happy with it, although I think if I were to shoot it again I would have put a candle behind to bring a warmer color to the composition (something I liked a lot about this other macro ring shot I did a few months back) and then kept the shutter open longer so that the shot could have had more of the background light come in to also help warm things up.
Tech Details: Taken with a Canon 20D and 100mm f/2.8 macro lens using remote cable release cord. Camera mounted on a Manfrotto 3021BPRO tripod with 322RC2 ballhead.
Lighting Details: Two Canon 580EX flashes triggered by a Canon ST-E2 wireless transmitter. Both flashes were difused, one with a Gary Fong Lightsphere Cloud that was placed above the rings (maybe two feet above) with the other sitting on it's side off to the left (by about six inches) difused with a STO-FEN OmniBounce.
NOTE: This photo made it into Flickr's 'Explore" as one of the top five hundred most interesting photos on a particular day. You can see all of my photo's that have made it into the Flickr Explore pages here.
Lots of learning for a bit over 4 minutes of totality. I’ll definitely be ready for the next one, when I’m 90.
A trip to Willow Point Resort located in Buchanan Dam, TX
Weather predictions for TX were horrible. Obviously, this made it less than optimal to view a total solar eclipse, corona and all.
But, when life hands you lemonade, drink it... in other words, take the photos anyway. Not disappointed.
About this photo: And there they are, as promised, Baily's Beads. Now seconds away from the exiting diamond ring. The clouds make themselves present too... drats.
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Check this video out by Dr. Tamitha Skov - She discusses the large prominence
Solar eclipse sequence over the "Idaho" side of the Grand Teton Range —as seen from Driggs, Idaho.
During totality, is almost like night —the birds stop singing, the crickets start chirping and the wind changes. The temperature dropped 22º F and dew actually reformed on the barley field in front of me!
It was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century. couldn't help bunking my office and traveled 800km exhausted road trip. But, witness such moment worth it all.
North end of Bangladesh.
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22nd July '09
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2017 Solar Eclipse - Bessemer Bend, North Platte River, Wyoming.
This is the moment of the "diamond ring" effect as totality is ending and the sun begins to emerge once again from behind the moon.
I took this photo hand held with my wildlife photography equipment and was surprised it was able to capture several prominences and Bailey's beads. An interesting two minutes to learn the settings needed for eclipse photography - no second chances and every second needed.
Nikon d5500
300mm
f/9
Partial stage - ISO 200 - 1/4000 second
Totality stage - ISO 100 - 1/320 second
Corona - ISO 100 - 21 x 1/320 second
Baader solar filter
My first attempt at photographing, and watching, a total solar eclipse. The experience is beyond words and something every person should witness once in their lives. I set myself down at Pebble Beach, just over 10km south of the main town. I was joined by many other car loads of people, from all around the world, who had all driven down onto the pebbled beach and set up their equipment, most of which was much more sophisticated looking than mine. When totality began everybody erupted in cheers.
This is a sequence of shots from start to finish including the totality stage with the two diamond rings and corona.
This was taken with a 300mm lens on a 1.5 crop sensor camera, making the focal length effectively 450mm. I used Baader solar film to fashion a home made filter and it did the job as well as I could have expected, showing very clearly some sun spots and giving nice detail in the various prominences extending from the surface of the star, which were also visible to the naked eye.
November 20, 2017
Macro Mondays Theme: #StoneRhymingZone
diamond
ˈdʌɪ(ə)mənd
noun
a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance.
"a diamond ring"
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My brother Rick designed this composition from the Solar Eclipse images he took. I think it was his revenge for all the harassment he received the night before during my instruction to him on how to photograph it. He laid this out on paper cut-outs, then scanned it and sent me with instructions on what to do. I think I've created a monster. ;-) So this is a composite of three of his images ranging from totality and the exit to the diamond ring phase. To be clear, Rick deserves the credit. He photographed the eclipse. He came up with the idea and design for the composite. He told me he'd kick my butt if I didn't process it correctly for him! ;-)
Let him know what you think. Nashville, Tennessee, USA, August 2017
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The great north American eclipse has been an amazing experience, after spending 2 weeks in Arizona, we flew to Denver then set off driving north, it took us 6 hours to do the 150 mile journey to the totality line in Wyoming. It looked more like an evacuation with one side of the interstate completely saturated with cars and the other side empty.
We planned our spot on the totality line away from all the crowds, which took 45 minutes driving off road to reach.
It has been the most amazing natural phenomena I have ever witnessed. stood looking at the sun covered by the moon with my own eyes in the middle of the day, the light dropped off dramatically, the temperature dropped, the wind stopped and everything fell into an eerie darkness, the crickets started making noise and we had a 360 degree sunset effect on the horizon.
The picture above is the moment when the sun's corona starts to become visible with huge plasma on the surface of the sun that is larger than planet Earth and is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
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A couple poses for wedding photos under the #EngagementSculpture as the sky explodes in the distance. This piece of art was created by the late Dennis Oppenheim and is situated at Sunset Beach Park. How about the awesome weather we've been having lately? Captured in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ June 15, 2018 💎
A trip to Willow Point Resort located in Buchanan Dam, TX
Weather predictions for TX were horrible. Obviously, this made it less than optimal to view a total solar eclipse, corona and all.
But, when life hands you lemonade, drink it... in other words, take the photos anyway. Not disappointed.
About this photo: The cloud cover turned out to be a blessing in disguise (all pun intended). Here, the clouds, in concert with some post production, seemed to give off a certain look and feel to the event. Otherwise, it would have just been plain-old eclipse photos...