Solar Eclipse 2009, Suwon, South Korea

These are NOT pinhole photographs.  I did pinhole the eclipse but the film is waiting for me at the lab. Having only one place to develop film in South Korea means, it will always be a long time between visits. It is after all a 90 minute trip to the photo lab. 90 MINUTES!!!

Goodness, has it really been a month since my last post. I have a very valid excuse… the last month was Intensives at school. Two more days and they are finished. I will be very happy to get back to my routine, 12+ hour days are kinda rough… never ending kids and NEVER ENDING GRADING!

Right before intensives started, on July 22nd, 2009, I witnessed a solar eclipse! It was quite the experience,  I felt lucky to have seen this and photograph it. I went to the rooftop of my apartment, on my way up I was thinking, “I hope there’s a puddle so I can take photos of the reflection”. I set up 2 pinhole cameras and was looking around. In the corner I saw a tub of water (the universe was looking out for me) and moved it so I could photograph the reflection. The bottom 2 photos are reflection images.  The top image, was me being brave or perhaps a little crazy and I looked up and snapped away. I got a wonderful image and my eyes didn’t burn out of my head.  Success!

I was pretty giddy during the whole 10 minute performance. Watching it actually happen, in real life, can never compare to looking at someone else’s photos or a video on the internet. Although I did look at tons of spectacular solar eclipse photos.  Did you see any of them fromSolar  India? Do a Google or flickr search and prepare to be amazed.

OH! Speaking of Google! I immediately uploaded my eclipse photos to flickr and for that WHOLE DAY anything you typed into Google related to the solar eclipse, showed my flickr photos as the first listing on google!  I was definitely patting myself on the back that day.  Google even brought over 4,000 views to my solar eclipse photos.

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