on my way home at night ... Ecclipse

This is really a fantastic shot, Bernhard ! I can't believe the light here, and the way the cloud seems to curl around the moon is just a real miracle. A big wow here. Congrats.

I'm not sure if Marc had the benefit of seeing your technical details, but clearly we are looking at a wonderful image of a partially eclipsed Sun. From an astronomical point of view Marc is still correct, because we can also see the Moon here, only as its silhouette covers up a large part of the solar disc...

Bernhard, can you confirm that the Sun's altitude was not all that high from your location (San Diego, CA)? Also, a quick check in my astronomical emphemeris tell me that apart from the total solar eclipse that we just witnessed in parts of Australia on 4 December, the only other solar eclipse took place on 10 June earlier this year. The partial phase of that annular eclipse was indeed visible from the west coast of the US. The way you managed to capture the clouds in front of this scene is very attractive indeed!

Marc, Peter,

 

Thanks for your comments. Yes, Peter is right it is the sun partially ecclipsed by the moon. That's why it was f32, 1/4000 on Velvia. The sun was indeed pretty low in the west above the pacific with some clouds. I am embarrassed to say that, but I forgot to note the date, so it probably was June 10, 2002.

 

What makes me especially happy is that Marc didn't complain about the bad scan as he has done on most of my other pics before. Those were scanned on a old beaten up LS2000 at work, this is on of my first scans on my new FS4000.

Yes, Peter, I have read the details, and I've seen eclipses before anyway... The scan ? Mmm... Honestly, I didn't even see the scanning imperfections here - due to the subject mostly. But now that you say so... let me take out 5 points for that...:-))

Perfect timing, the sworls & swirls of the cloud cleverly repeats the crest of the eclipse. Wonderful!