The View You May Not Have Seen
Oct 14, 2023 13:01:13 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
As a scientist and engineer, one of my interests is using photography in a straightforward way to either see what is hard to see or to record what we might not expect to see in the world. This image sort of encapsulates that interest. Here in the Dallas area we are seeing about 80-82% coverage of the sun this morning. That is enough to darken the day noticeably and to impart a fairly strange character to the daylight.
The first image captures the edge of the shadow of our roof on the ground in the back yard. Any other day, the shadow of that edge would be quite (although not perfectly) sharp. Today, because of the diffraction of the sunlight as it passes the edge of the moon, here is the effect of the shadow...much softer than normal.
The last two images just happened to appear on the kitchen floor while I was uploading the first one.
The first image captures the edge of the shadow of our roof on the ground in the back yard. Any other day, the shadow of that edge would be quite (although not perfectly) sharp. Today, because of the diffraction of the sunlight as it passes the edge of the moon, here is the effect of the shadow...much softer than normal.
The last two images just happened to appear on the kitchen floor while I was uploading the first one.
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larryepage wrote:
As a scientist and engineer, one of my interests i... (show quote)
Utter coolness 🧊🌞🧊🌞🧊
Oct 14, 2023 22:51:40 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Longshadow wrote:
That's neat!
Thank you. The string of crescents is created as the light passes through some small gaps in the blinds on a large window.
Oct 14, 2023 22:54:19 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
joecichjr wrote:
Utter coolness 🧊🌞🧊🌞🧊
Thank you. Glad you found these interesting.
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Oct 15, 2023 10:47:26 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
jaymatt wrote:
Interesting!
Thanks John. We are going to be situated even a little bit more favorably for the April eclipse... upper 90% coverage here in town, and a short drive to totality. I was trying to come up with some cooler ways for the kids to observe effects of the eclipse without looking directly at it.
I built a viewing box, but it wasn't long enough compared to the size of my pinhole, so the image was distorted...the lighted area was too big compared to the dark area.
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larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
SparkyNYC wrote:
Love the last two.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks Sparky. I literally just happened to see those while posting the first image, took a couple of quick shots, and added them to the post. I wish I'd had time to be a little more intentional with them. I built a viewing box, but those accidental images were better than what my viewer produced.
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