Eclipse!
Posted by lowellr | Filed under Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China
You’re looking at a very wide shot of today’s eclipse from just north of Yiwu, China. What I love about this photo is the sunlight creeping over the edge of the mountain on right side of the image and how it backlights the clouds that tormented us all week long. Our location, in relation to the path of totality’s center line, meant we could see light escaping from around the shadow of the moon. The end result was a 360 degree sunset.
It was incredibility beautiful, in some ways it eclipsed the eclipse in terms of “wow, I can’t believe how amazing this is.” Our eclipse team was on a wide desert plain surrounded by mountains and the center of that became dark and cold during the eclipse but all along the surrounding mountain ridges it glowed with color. Amazing!
