Partial Solar Eclipse over Plum Island Sound, Ipswich MA, USA (Mark C. Helton)

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Partial Solar Eclipse over Plum Island Sound, Ipswich MA, USA

This is one of my images of the Partial Solar Eclipse June 2021. I was very happy that I got up very early, before the Sun rose, to see this event. There were heavy clouds on the horizon when I arrived on the beach down the street from where I live, so I was not sure that I would get anything. About 10 minutes after the Sun rose, it broke out of the clouds and there was the Moon in front of it! I actually found that having the clouds in the foreground really gave the event some depth, and it certainly helped with the color! I shot this using my Sony A7iii with a variable ND filter. I was using a Sony 24 to 100mm lens wide open at ISO 85 as I remember. I eventually had to switch to my White Light Solar Filter from Thousand Oaks to image tighter shots of the eclipse. But I love how you have foreground elements in the image, for a partial eclipse. These were the photos that I could not get during the 2017 Total Eclipse. Well worth getting up before the Sun!!

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