But on Sunday, there was a "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse and we were in a near prime viewing location just north east of Sacramento. I didn't get any photos of it personally because unless you had a special filter it would ruin your camera, but we did have special viewing glasses and it was one of the most amazing things I've seen.

I stole this pic from wiki (thanks to the photographer who shared!)
These are pics from Jimmy's cousin who used an old xray for a filter, which he admits probably wasn't good enough to block out the harmful rays but the photos are amazing!!



But since we didn't have a filter for our camera, we made do with shooting photos of the shadows the eclipse made on the ground...
Please check out wiki's link here for more detailed information and a lot of really cool photos.
4 comments:
Magnificent photos - I love the colander pics very inventive.
we were out shopping and saw people looking away from it with a piece of paper with hole in it so we did the same thing when we got home and saw its crescent beauty.
I didn't know anything about this until it was all over, but it wasn't visible here anyway. Love the colander idea. So cool that these things can be predicted so exactly. Just imagine how scared early civilisations must have been when they experienced these heavenly events! especially when they were predicted by the high priests and told the end of the world was coming if they didn't smarten up!
Dontcha just love the new I.D. words that blogger comes up with??? today's words are:
irposcum and ewspante
Very, very cool, Mad. You and another blogger friend from the San Francisco area are the only ones I know who saw the eclipse. Lucky you. She, too, caught the shadows on the ground: http://carolabartz.blogspot.com/2012/05/moon-eats-sun.html
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