Well, that was the eclips tonight. I had sought a decent location on a dune top to take some pictures. I got special carton eclips glasses from my optician and was therefore well prepared to view the event. However, as the eclips was not more than 90%, I discovered that there was too much contrast with the remaining sunshine for a proper landscape picture. I should have used a graduated ND filter. And I didn't dare to take a close-up of the sun/moon combo without a special eclips filter . Lesson learned. Now I have to wait till 2081 for another decent eclips here. https://www.flickr.com/gp/mxer/2r0zPcn02r Henk

It was quite interesting here. I couldn’t watch the eclipse itself as I had an urgent dental appointment exactly at the time of maximum coverage. I didn’t mind as I saw the last total eclipse and also another good partial one a few years later. I walked to the dentist with the sun on my back and it was interesting to see so many people holding colanders to get the projected shadows, and people trying various other things to see it, including one woman who seemed to be watching it directly through her fingers, which would have been very stupid. As I arrived at the dentist’s all the staff were outside watching through eclipse glasses in their dentist and nurse uniforms. The whole 10-minute walk would have made a nice little photo essay, so I think next time I’ll take photos of the watchers of the sky. At maximum coverage I could see the sky to the east from the dentist’s chair and it was very weird colour. Altogether a very interesting and enjoyable experience. Except for the bill. > On 12 Aug 2026, at 21:51, Henk Terhell <henk.terhell@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, that was the eclips tonight. I had sought a decent location on a dune top to take some pictures. > I got special carton eclips glasses from my optician and was therefore well prepared to view the event. > However, as the eclips was not more than 90%, I discovered that there was too much contrast with the remaining sunshine for a proper landscape picture. I should have used a graduated ND filter. > And I didn't dare to take a close-up of the sun/moon combo without a special eclips filter . > Lesson learned. Now I have to wait till 2081 for another decent eclips here. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/mxer/2r0zPcn02r > > Henk > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Just enough hazy cloud to render it invisible here, although it did darken and everything went quiet. Also bolloxed up the Perseids. > On 13/08/2026 09:11 BST Bob W PDML <pdmlbw@icloud.com> wrote: > > > It was quite interesting here. I couldn’t watch the eclipse itself as I had an urgent dental appointment exactly at the time of maximum coverage. I didn’t mind as I saw the last total eclipse and also another good partial one a few years later. > > I walked to the dentist with the sun on my back and it was interesting to see so many people holding colanders to get the projected shadows, and people trying various other things to see it, including one woman who seemed to be watching it directly through her fingers, which would have been very stupid. As I arrived at the dentist’s all the staff were outside watching through eclipse glasses in their dentist and nurse uniforms. > > The whole 10-minute walk would have made a nice little photo essay, so I think next time I’ll take photos of the watchers of the sky. > > At maximum coverage I could see the sky to the east from the dentist’s chair and it was very weird colour. Altogether a very interesting and enjoyable experience. > > Except for the bill. > > > > > On 12 Aug 2026, at 21:51, Henk Terhell <henk.terhell@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Well, that was the eclips tonight. I had sought a decent location on a dune top to take some pictures. > > I got special carton eclips glasses from my optician and was therefore well prepared to view the event. > > However, as the eclips was not more than 90%, I discovered that there was too much contrast with the remaining sunshine for a proper landscape picture. I should have used a graduated ND filter. > > And I didn't dare to take a close-up of the sun/moon combo without a special eclips filter . > > Lesson learned. Now I have to wait till 2081 for another decent eclips here. > > > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/mxer/2r0zPcn02r > > > > Henk

Eclipse as seen from the EAST COAST of the United States. https://flic.kr/p/2sv12kf I went down to Cape Hatteras National Seashore to shoot for the September PUG. I'd done my research and knew we'd have about 1% coverage of the eclipse visible from the Outer Banks ... so I took my solar filters along. I was hoping maybe to get some sun spots in addition to the tiny bit of eclipse. This won't be my entry for the September PUG. I took some other photos while I was down there ... 😏 While you're looking you might enjoy this earlier photo I took of the wild horses at Carova Beach in the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge. It was a few years back, but I've been learning how to use Lightroom masks & they worked well with this image. On 8/13/2026 5:00 AM, mike wilson wrote: > Just enough hazy cloud to render it invisible here, although it did darken and everything went quiet. Also bolloxed up the Perseids. >> On 13/08/2026 09:11 BST Bob W PDML <pdmlbw@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >> It was quite interesting here. I couldn’t watch the eclipse itself as I had an urgent dental appointment exactly at the time of maximum coverage. I didn’t mind as I saw the last total eclipse and also another good partial one a few years later. >> >> I walked to the dentist with the sun on my back and it was interesting to see so many people holding colanders to get the projected shadows, and people trying various other things to see it, including one woman who seemed to be watching it directly through her fingers, which would have been very stupid. As I arrived at the dentist’s all the staff were outside watching through eclipse glasses in their dentist and nurse uniforms. >> >> The whole 10-minute walk would have made a nice little photo essay, so I think next time I’ll take photos of the watchers of the sky. >> >> At maximum coverage I could see the sky to the east from the dentist’s chair and it was very weird colour. Altogether a very interesting and enjoyable experience. >> >> Except for the bill. >> >> >> >>> On 12 Aug 2026, at 21:51, Henk Terhell <henk.terhell@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Well, that was the eclips tonight. I had sought a decent location on a dune top to take some pictures. >>> I got special carton eclips glasses from my optician and was therefore well prepared to view the event. >>> However, as the eclips was not more than 90%, I discovered that there was too much contrast with the remaining sunshine for a proper landscape picture. I should have used a graduated ND filter. >>> And I didn't dare to take a close-up of the sun/moon combo without a special eclips filter . >>> Lesson learned. Now I have to wait till 2081 for another decent eclips here. >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/gp/mxer/2r0zPcn02r >>> >>> Henk > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Aeternum vive aut conando moriere. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com