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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!

Redemption

A bit of practice ahead of the big day!

I had to go back and read my post from 2017. Like I said back then, the beauty of an online “journal.” Glad I sent my future self notes. I made it. I am now my future self (at least from the perspective of that post).

Heading to Texas next week for a second shot at it. I’ve never posted my photos from that day. Not good. I definitely experienced the phenomenon of the total solar eclipse and get to do it all again in just over a week.

So much has changed since then and I’m going into this one prepared. Gonna make my past self proud.

Twice in a lifetime – here I come!

Futile

It’s very difficult for me now to resist sending up the aerial camera when the skies look like this.  I have a feeling that I’m going to be posting lots of aerial images throughout the coming Fall season.

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The Sun Also Sets

Yeah, I know that’s not the title, but that’s not what I’m going for here.  With so much attention to the sunRISES lately, I needed to turn around and give some time to the sunSET.

The Sun Also Sets