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I have been thinking about rebooting this old blog for some time.\u00a0 A week with a total solar eclipse seems as good a time as any.\u00a0 I was free the whole day of the eclipse. I could drive only about two hours north-west of where I live and be just inside the the path of totality – something I have never experienced.\u00a0 I debated making the drive right up to the last minute – it was mostly overcast and the cloud cover looked like it was only heavier the further west I would be traveling.\u00a0 Naturally, I wanted to try to capture the perfect picture of the eclipse – cause why just enjoy a natural phenomena when you can drive yourself crazy. So I hesitated – and I also did not have a filter for my camera or a pair of solar glasses. I was headed back from the mailbox – where the glasses I had ordered at the last minute failed to appear – when I ran into our next-door neighbor who generously shared a set of solar glasses and a camera filter that she had recently received (Thank You Kathy!).<\/p>\n

I was starting to run out of excuses.\u00a0 I probably still would not have gone, except there was still one other reason for the journey. My brother died completely unexpectedly about two years ago.\u00a0 Its complicated, but I hadn’t seen him in 20 years.\u00a0 I don’t know exactly what happened to him in those 20 years or in what ways his life had changed, but there was a time when he would not pass up a chance to watch and photograph an eclipse.\u00a0 He was an avid astronomer – building his own telescope and camera filters. The photo above is one he took of a spectacular eclipse in Baja Mexico on July 11, 1991. I don’t know how Frank took this picture, but I am so glad I have it.\u00a0 It was mounted near my computer monitor at work for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

I arrived at a spot on the side of a back road somewhere outside of Boonville, NY last Monday and quickly set up my tripod with ten minutes to spare to experience one minute of totality. I was snapping pictures when the camera view screen went blank.\u00a0 It was now safe to look up at the sun directly, without glasses or filters and I was overwhelmed by the sight of the carona.\u00a0 At that moment, I found myself thinking “this is what you see”.\u00a0 It was as if time and distance had been breached and I was experiencing the eclipse with Frank.\u00a0 And then it was gone. (Image: Totality, Mexico 1991<\/em> by Frank Martin)<\/p>\n

This was the shot I got of the eclipse this week.<\/p>\n

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I have been thinking about rebooting this old blog for some time.\u00a0 A week with a total solar eclipse seems as good a time as any.\u00a0 I was free the whole day of the eclipse. I could drive only about two hours north-west of where I live and be just inside the the path of […] \u00bbmore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}