Month: April 2024

Chaser

Yep, that’s me. I’m one of those people now. Some had already pegged me as one, but I refused to accept it. I just might have developed a problem.

There’s no real way to describe the feeling. It really is euphoric for whatever reason. I can’t explain it, but I’ve now experienced it twice and I want more.

Yeah, I have it bad.

No, I don’t need an intervention, but I HAVE already started planning for the next big one. I’m not really a “world traveler,” but I might just have to be.

After the 2017 event, I wrote my future self some notes. Here we go again:

  • You’ve done this before (twice) take some time and enjoy it, too.
  • Plan, plan, plan.
  • Try getting creative this time:
  • Bracket the corona
  • Higher f-stop – lower shutter (get those bursts)
  • 360 sunset
  • Use that Lens Ball. You brought it, right?
  • Wide-angle static ambient sequence (use the second solar filter for this)
  • Eat something to Pete’s sake!
  • Also, don’t forget, your good friend may have given you a t-shirt (or a hat, or a jacket or something) years and years prior to the event that you packed, but forgot about. Find it and wear it!

Giddy

I’m “over-the-moon” happy about today (wink, wink. nudge, nudge) | See them all here.

That’s the only way I can describe how I’m feeling right now. I had all but given up on seeing anything at all. I was beaten. Dejected. I planned for years. I saved – for years. I went over it and over it in my brain. But the weather wasn’t looking promising at all.

Cut to this morning. I woke up determined. I wasn’t about to let this go. I can’t have come all this way and not control what I can control. What’s the last part of the saying again? Ah yes, there is no TRY.

I’m doing this.

I did this.

So much more to come, but here’s a start.