Quite the sight to experience! It's been fun seeing everything people have captured from the eclipse yesterday. Since I never bought a solar filter to protect my camera to get an up close picture of the sun, I stayed closer to home and ended up in Port Clyde. Full totality I can imagine was quite the experience, but as you can see from this short time-lapse video, we lost a good deal of light during the eclipse! To be exact, a little over 4 stops of light(-1 stop is half the light). This really was a "had to be there" experience, and I quickly realized pictures couldn't do it justice, so I sat and enjoyed it instead. The two phenomena's that I've never seen were these.
1. If you looked behind you on flat ground, there was a sort of glittering flowing movement that I was unable to capture with a camera. It was the equivalent of moving water reflecting on another surface, except it was coming from up above! Some sort of atmospheric phenomenon that was really cool.
2. Having such dim, but constrasty overhead light. It was normal mid day light, but dimmed. Very different from cloud cover, as all the strong shadows were there, but you could look around comfortably without being all squinty.
This was originally an 8k time-lapse, but after downgrading it to 1080p and running it through multiple digital pathways, it's probably not as good as it could be.
Rockland Breakwater 12/23/22
Took a trek down to the breakwater this morning at high tide and left completely drenched! Very cool experience with incredibly high winds.
Daren and Emily's Wedding Album
