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The Venus transit was fun to "host" at work with the glasses and camera. I had some annoyance as i left my camera at home, but fetched it and was well rewarded.
A "black drop" moment as my optics were not quite good enough to resolve when Venus's disk had apparently entered the sun's disk.
My eyesight is not good enough to pick the dot out of the sun using the glasses, but several folks at work were delighted. The rest of us would look at the camera's display screen, look at the sky, look at the screen, and ponder.
In klutz news, twice i took the protective glasses away while still looking at the sun. The third moment of being dazzled was as i was being amazed i could see the sun's scattered light in the pool through the protective glasses. So i pulled the glasses away and, aiee! Too bright!
Christine had had an exhausting first day of classes, so we didn't chase the sunset. I simply came home and we walked to the end of the side walk to take a look. (Our deck was already shaded by the redwoods.) I loved looking at her gaze through the glasses: she stood for quite a while gazing, like she was drinking in the wonder.
I had 5 GB of photos, over 350 to sort through. I've saved one roughly every two minutes as the venus crossed the limb of the sun, deleting well over 300. I'll probably not keep the raw format of the couple dozen photos left, and instead shrink them to a print size of 4x6". I'm trying to recognize the "TCO" (total cost of ownership) of keeping ephemera. "What if!" the creative side of my mind keeps calling out, "What if you want to make an animation of the movement? What if you want to publish a photo book with images bigger than 4x6? What if you eventually get some of that stacker software that improves the detail? Won't you hate yourself for not saving these?" All i can tell myself is that my life is short, there are so many many things i want to do, and i will take more photos. Everything is "once in a lifetime," with its own light, feelings, context. I continue to accumulate lovely documentation: there will always be a choice of photos to develop and sort. No, 5 GB of photos taken with my cheap filter in the wind of one of the most imaged events are not necessary to keep. If i'm bored, i can always identify the trees in the documentary photos of the Mt Lassen trip or the cacti in the Joshua tree trip. And the whale photos of the Monterey Bay trip!
And I still need to sort through hundreds of eclipse photos.
Flare: ( continues after some hours of relief. )
A "black drop" moment as my optics were not quite good enough to resolve when Venus's disk had apparently entered the sun's disk.
My eyesight is not good enough to pick the dot out of the sun using the glasses, but several folks at work were delighted. The rest of us would look at the camera's display screen, look at the sky, look at the screen, and ponder.
In klutz news, twice i took the protective glasses away while still looking at the sun. The third moment of being dazzled was as i was being amazed i could see the sun's scattered light in the pool through the protective glasses. So i pulled the glasses away and, aiee! Too bright!
Christine had had an exhausting first day of classes, so we didn't chase the sunset. I simply came home and we walked to the end of the side walk to take a look. (Our deck was already shaded by the redwoods.) I loved looking at her gaze through the glasses: she stood for quite a while gazing, like she was drinking in the wonder.
I had 5 GB of photos, over 350 to sort through. I've saved one roughly every two minutes as the venus crossed the limb of the sun, deleting well over 300. I'll probably not keep the raw format of the couple dozen photos left, and instead shrink them to a print size of 4x6". I'm trying to recognize the "TCO" (total cost of ownership) of keeping ephemera. "What if!" the creative side of my mind keeps calling out, "What if you want to make an animation of the movement? What if you want to publish a photo book with images bigger than 4x6? What if you eventually get some of that stacker software that improves the detail? Won't you hate yourself for not saving these?" All i can tell myself is that my life is short, there are so many many things i want to do, and i will take more photos. Everything is "once in a lifetime," with its own light, feelings, context. I continue to accumulate lovely documentation: there will always be a choice of photos to develop and sort. No, 5 GB of photos taken with my cheap filter in the wind of one of the most imaged events are not necessary to keep. If i'm bored, i can always identify the trees in the documentary photos of the Mt Lassen trip or the cacti in the Joshua tree trip. And the whale photos of the Monterey Bay trip!
And I still need to sort through hundreds of eclipse photos.
Flare: ( continues after some hours of relief. )
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