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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 […]
Posted in Astrophotography, Nature Photography
Tags: nature photography, Solar Eclipse
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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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Tags: nature photography, total solar eclipse
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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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Tags: astrophotography, nature photography, Solar Eclipse
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Seeing Spots
Today’s post features an image I captured yesterday while conducting some solar exposure tests, for the upcoming April 08 total solar eclipse. I have been working a lot on preparing for this upcoming astronomical event … and this will be the last total solar eclipse to hit the continental United States for 20 years! Setting […]
Beautiful ‘Greenies’
Today’s post features an image I captured on one of the Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) pools, in northwest Missouri, a few years ago. Mallard drakes (males) are brilliantly colored when you can find them in good light. These Mallard drakes were cruising one of the refuge pools in beautiful, early morning […]
Posted in Bird Photography, Nature Photography, Uncategorized
Tags: duck, nature photography
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Spring Fever … Already?
Today’s post features one of my favorite warblers, the Magnolia Warbler. Captured at Magee Marsh in northern Ohio, this beautiful male was flitting about the trees as it fed and rested, before crossing Lake Erie for his summer home in Canada: Magee Marsh is a wonderful place to see and photograph migrating warblers in the […]
Posted in Bird Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: birding, nature photography, Ohio
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