Eclipse Photo

Not directly of the eclipse... I live in Tacoma, WA and we got 95% covered. Enough to dim the light of day. To the level of a sunset but without the golden color of a sun on the horizon. A little surreal, but not to the level I was expecting.

The last solar eclipse I was witness to was in 1979 in Yellowknife, NT... very far northern Canada. It was winter and that far north, in the winter the sunlight has a more clinical feel to it. Less of the yellow hue of the summer sun here. It was also not a total eclipse, but at it's peak, when the sun was dimmed, the whole world took on an alien mettalic look.

Anyway, I enjoyed it. Next time I will head to an area of totallity. Getting close was great, but I think that last 5% makes it 100x more powerful. I didn't bother trying to take a picture of the eclipsed sun without the proper filters.... but I found some of the shadows being cast by it were incredible.

This was taken at the peak for my area.... 95% totallity where that sliver of sun is being cast on the wall of my house repeated a number of times as the light streams though the needles of my giant pine tree in the back yard.

Hope you enjoy :)

(bottom right has my phone/hand shadow cast in it as well, thought it was neat for scale. Maybe?)

I tried turning 180 to show what the sun was being filtered through as well... here's that pic.