Finally, some eclipse photos I took in Brasstown, North Carolina (LOTS of photos!)

[csziggy]

Only a month after the fact....

We had to recover from a disastrous end of our vacation (do not EVER stay at the Crowne Plaza in Asheville North Carolina!), lots of health checkups, and some very bad health news.

For the eclipse we met family at the John C. Campbell Folk School, had a picnic lunch and a great time watching the eclipse.

Just before the total eclipse - light through open leaves:


Partial eclipse taken with eclipse glasses held over the camera lens:

(I did not have the budget to buy a filter for my old DSLR and can't put one on the FujiFilm FinePix S9900W I'm currently using.)

Almost totality!


Totality (hand held, taken with my husband's older Fujifilm FinePix S4500)


My husband hiked to the top of a hill and took photos from there with my camera. He caught the shadow of the moon on the clouds:


I caught the diamond ring effect!


We'd also set up a video camera to catch the changes in light. It should have been set up on the hill where my husband was, but the last eight minutes of the hour and a half did come out kind of cool. I compressed it to thirty seconds and added music:
http://www.woodswell.com/family/Family_Photo_Albums/2017%20Solar%20Eclipse/index.html#201708271534_audio.mp4
(At bottom right is icon to enlarge to full screen.)

Oh - at the very end of the video you seen a glimpse of someone dashing past. A couple had walked past before the eclipse with their cat on a leash. At totality, the cat freaked out and got away from them. The person dashing past is the husband chasing the cat. The cat's leash got caught on a tree and he was rescued, safe with no injuries.

[samnsara]

1. great shots!

[csziggy]

3. Thanks! nt

[MFM008]

2. good ones

I couldnt have seen it unless it happened outside my front door....

[csziggy]

4. Thanks!

My husband wanted to go to Jackson Hole to see it - by the time he told me there were no rooms left in the state!

Then it turned out that the Embroiderer's Guild of America Seminar was in Asheville, ending the day before the eclipse. So I signed up for that and booked the room extending past the end of the seminar to cover the eclipse. Then we found out that his brother and sister in law were going to the John C. Campbell Folk School that week - I'd already asked permission to go there to view the eclipse since I hadn't been since the 1960s when my great aunt used to go every year. And it snowballed so my husband's entire family got together.

Soooo... we had a good time even if the Crowne Plaza Asheville sucks and the traffic was messed up on the way back.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Wow, my dear csziggy!

You did a great job!

The almost totality photo is truly amazing! None of mine looked that cool.

The totality photo is gorgeous!

And I love your diamond ring photo! (Did you see mine?)

Glad you had a good time in spite of the difficulties with the &*# hotel!

[csziggy]

7. Your picture was wonderful!

The almost totality photo is more likely an effect of the lens and camera sensor as anything. I took it with my eclipse glasses on so I didn't go blind while trying to get the shot, LOL!

[snowybirdie]

6. Great pictures

Lived in the hills above Brasstown for awhile. The Campbell school is such a joy! Hope your health improves

[csziggy]

8. My great aunt and her special friend visited every year for a while in the 1950s and 60s

They planned to build a house but her friend died before they broke ground. The Moulton Garden is dedicated to her friend - I think my great aunt donated the money for it - I know she donated the plaque.

We visited the school some summers,the last time right after the plaque was dedicated, about 1964-65. That was the last time I had been there until this year! It's beautiful up there - I may decide to take some classes.

[northoftheborder]

9. The best photos of the eclipse I've seen.

The most important thing to me (not being in an area to see the eclipse) was how the surrounding light changed during the eclipse. I could see a zillion photos of eclipse itself, but hardly anything on the local surroundings as it happened. It must have seemed very surreal for the landscape of ground and trees to be completely dark, with the sky light. Thank you for showing that one, and in a time elapse, especially interesting.

[csziggy]

10. Thank you! I got several more ofthe totality but there isn't significant difference

I do wish I had gotten my husband to carry the video camera up to the top of the hill where he got pictures of the moon shadow moving across the landscape and clouds - that would have been impressive. Plus, if he had set it at the widest setting rather than slightly zoomed in, he would have gotten more.

But neither of us are used to the camera and we were not sure what it would show.

What was lost in the accelerated time video was the crowd reaction. The full eight minutes of the peak of totality is on my site and I left the original audio. In the background can be heard our family talking and reacting to the eclipse.

It was a wonderful event and I am so glad to have been able to see totality for once in my life!