Left for work over an hour early to try to photograph the lunar eclipse. Took the first photo as I was loading up the car, before the eclipse started.
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| 5:06 AM |
The first place I looked to set the photo gear was a lakeside park on the shore of America's Great Lake, but 30 mph winds had the beach sand blowing and drifting across the parking lot. Plan B was to set up a little closer to work, a decision that cost me photos of the beginning of the eclipse, but allowed me to get the more important totality shots right up to the time I needed to be through the gate.
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| 5:32 AM |
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| 5:50 AM |
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| 6:08 AM |
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| 6:10 AM |
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| 6:29 AM |
An added bonus to this lunar show was that the planet Uranus was just over a half of a degree from the Moon at the time it was immersed in the Earth's shadow. It was the first time I was able to photograph the 7th planet from the Sun. Insert your own middle school joke here.....
Earlier in the week I took some practice sunset shots for the partial solar eclipse coming up on the 23rd.
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| leaning light |
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| cropped image |
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