Author Archives: James Braswell

Professional nature photographer, specializing in capturing animal behaviors, wildflowers and scenics. Member of NANPA, Great Plains Nature Photographers and Missouri Prairie Foundation. Also a Master Gardener.

Creme de la Creme

Today’s post features that sweet little nougat found in the center of fine chocolates … in this case, the main feature of the Total Solar Eclipse … the awe-inspiring view of the sun’s corona, normally seen only during complete totality! The image below is a single image, captured using a very long exposure of the […]

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Now You See Me … Now You Don’t

Today’s post features some of the solar phenomena that we cannot normally see, because of the extreme intensity of the sun’s brightness … the Solar Chromosphere and some Solar Prominences. When in totality, we are able to see a couple of interesting features of the sun. The sun’s Chromosphere is seen as a thin, red […]

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From Diamonds to Beads …

… and Back to Diamonds! Today’s post features the early phenomena experienced during totality of the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 … the formation of the brilliant “Diamond Ring”, followed closely by the “breakdown” of the diamond ring into “Baily’s Beads”. I also have included some images of coming out of totality … […]

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The Alpha and the Omega …

… the Beginning and the End. Today’s post follows up on my recent, pre-eclipse post (“Out of this World”), if you missed it. This post features images captured of the Partial Phases of the April 08, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse. The Totality images (featuring the wonderful “Bailey’s Beads”, “Diamond Rings”, Prominences, the Solar Corona, etc., […]

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Out-Of-This-World Experience

Today’s post begins what will be a multiple-post series, from the “Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024” adventure I experienced on Monday, April 08. I can honestly say that this was one of the most dramatic … uplifting … emotional … natural events I have ever experienced! I began preparing for this event well […]

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Pretty in Blue

Today, I’m featuring an image that was captured during a hike on a Missouri prairie, a number of years ago. While photographing in the early morning, I came across this brilliantly-colored, blue damselfly as it rested on a blade of prairie grass: This image was captured pre-2004, when I was still shooting 35mm slides. I […]

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