Eclipse of the sun:

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Pentax LX- 120-600 mm Vivitar Zoom lens- Handheld- Fuji Velvia- No exact exposure was recorded, most exposures approximated 1/250 sec. @ f-16. The image was sharpened in Photoshop 4.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), February 20, 1999

Answers

Bahman, I am inspired again by your work. Was it just luck that put the clouds there?

Cheers

-- Bill Wyman (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), February 21, 1999.

Bill: Thanks for the compliment. It was pure luck a few years ago. Not only the clouds were there, if I remember correctly it also happened on or around my lunch break about 11:30 local time. I took about two rolls, one color and the other B&W. Not all of them turned out as nice as this one.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), February 21, 1999.

The grainy texture of the clouds next to the solid inverted crescent of the sun and the black surrounding sky make for a very nice composition. Excellent!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), February 22, 1999.

Very nice. The dark "cloud frame" makes it special.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), February 22, 1999.