November Squares – Eclipse Shadowing
For Becky’s challenge:
Legend of the Enchanted Moorish Boy
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This month long challenge is hosted by Becky of “The Life of B”. Thanks, Becky!
This month’s theme is shadows____ .
We try to find & photograph anything that represents a shadow. There are many ways of going with this. (see information link)
The most important rule of this challenge is that your photo Must be Square!
To join in, find out the details, and see other entries, just click the link below. It’s fun! 🙂
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Today, October 14, 2023 there was an annular eclipse of the sun. Where we are in Texas, we were on the edge of the path of the eclipse, so we didn’t get real dark. But you could definitely see a difference in the atmosphere. It started getting dimmer as the time went on. It is an eerie and strange feel to the air, and no sounds from birds or anything. It’s all hushed or muffled it seems. From a very bright sunny day with no clouds, it seemed a shade had come over the sky and earth. It was a shadowing.
First photo shows the sun with the shadow that has moved about half way in a crescent shape over it. The second photo is showing the edge of our house & tree, in deep shadows, as the sky has dimmed a lot, and the sun is still there and off to the side it is showing the crescent shape. I don’t know how the phone camera I used did that.
An article I read says: An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon covers the Sun’s center, leaving the Sun’s visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” .
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This next photo is not squared, but it shows what the eclipse looked like when I put the dark glasses over the phone camera lens to take the picture. We did get beautiful orange rays coming out from the sun with the moon in front of it. Or something like that. This is what we saw.
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