Eclipse - US Midwest

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Amazing!

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[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

Great pictures. I watched the live NASA broadcast and it was quite exciting for not being in the path of totality.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The outer edge of the totality actually ran through our backyard! (according to a google map), But we have too many trees in the yard for viewing so we drove an hour, hoping not to run into too many clouds. Things turned out perfectly.
Glad you enjoyed the pictures.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was awesome to see.

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Great pictures! Did you take them with special settings on your camera?

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Yes - we had to get a special type of neutral density filter and a converter for our biggest lens. While taking the pictures we had to keep changing the speed to compensate for the changing amount of light.

It was very interesting to see all of the other photographers and their camera's and lenses (*g* size matters, I guess!*g*)

It was truly awesome, though. I'm very glad I had a chance to see it.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

That's very interesting! Did you use a tripod as well?

The results are really beautiful!
Thank you!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yes - we did use a tripod. The camera lens is too long and too heavy to hold by hand without shaking.

[cyanne]

Beautiful pictures. Glad the weather cooperated and you got to see it live. I got to see it on tv and while I know it's nowhere near the same, it was still kinda neat to be part of something so big.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I wasn't sure what to expect after all the hype on TV and in the papers - it got to feel like I'd already seen all there was to see. But actually watching it all take place for real, was amazing. And our area gets another one in 7 years - I'll be there again!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

How awesome is that? I hope you submitted your pictures somewhere as well - they're great! Look at those little solar flares...

Wish I'd had the foresight to try to take decent pictures (although we had clouds just at peak eclipse).

We were more around 70-75%, but it was still great. I didn't have glasses, so I did the pinhole camera thing; and then one of the admins had glasses so she stood in the lobby (there's a skylight) and people congregated around her to take looks. It was all awesome.

LOL, Large Corporation just paid several hundred people to stand around and look at an eclipse.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

It was TOTALLY awesome ( really, really sorry for that...but I can't resist a bad pun!.

The solar flares were hard to actually see - I was a bit surprised when we looked at the photos.

We drove to a small town about an hour away from home, because they had the longest totality - and the police officers in the town had free glasses for whoever needed them. There was a woman from the high school science class that had a whistle that she blew when the eclipse started and when we could take our glasses off and then again when we had to put them back on. Everyone had a good laugh over that!

If I had gone to work today, the company bought glasses for everyone and gave everyone a paid 30 minute "leave" to go out and watch. Sometimes the boss isn't such an ogre!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Wow! Fantastic pictures, thanks a lot.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was quite spectacular to see.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Your pics are incredible - thank you so much for sharing them. Just look at those flares!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Look at those flares.

Sounds like something you might say about Doyle's jeans!!


Glad you enjoyed these. It was truly amazing

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, you lucky thing! *iz envious* Epic pictures, dear! Ta for sharing them!

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Wow! How grand that you had it so relatively close to home! Up here we had a partial eclipse, and clouds at the peak of that, but we were able to still see it when it was about half, and that was cool in and of itself. *g* (Plus, we'd decided to have a potluck lunch for staff and students, so it was just a good, social time.)

Thanks for sharing these! How very cool to have experienced a total eclipse! I'd love to have felt that, much less watch. (Heh. and I saw your comment about the science teacher with a whistle. That's brilliant.)

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

I found myself unexpectedly moved by the whole thing. Pictures don't do the phenomenon justice.

We had driven about an hour from home to see the totality. Talking to co-workers it was visible at my office as a partial, but if you drove just a few miles further west - you would get the totality. just a few miles!

Seven years from now, in April, there will be another that goes through our area and again - totality! That one will also go through my hometown in Western NY - with totality very near Buffalo. I'm hoping to be able to go back home for that one.

And yes - the lady with the whistle was a hoot! Glad you enjoyed the photos.

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Excellent pics! It was amazing, by all accounts. I'd love to have been there.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect the emotional reaction I had. I'm usually quite buttoned-up *g*
But this was something very special.
I'll get another chance to see it again in seven years (I hope!)