Solar Eclipse Sidewalk Shadows
Combine a little luck (with the weather) and an almost 200 mile drive that began at 4 a.m., and #2 son and I were treated to a dazzling solar eclipse under a brilliantly sunny, cloud-free sky in Rexburg, Idaho** earlier today.
Less exactly 2 minutes and 29 seconds, that is.
The top photo was taken about 5 minutes after totality, when a passerby noted all the crescent shapes cast on the sidewalk by a still-90% obscured sun.
Photo #2 is my son and I about 20 minutes before.
And no, no photos during, because I didn’t have the requisite special camera lenses.
Suffice to say, though, the effect — including a surreal, 360º sunset-like twilight on the horizon — was beautiful, dramatic, and eerie . . .
**About 40 miles west of the mob-scene in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson, Wyoming. We began the day in Bozeman, Montana.
See also, “Real Estate Photography and Monday’s Solar Eclipse.”
