Eclipse of the Sun, Light through Leaves
The total eclipse of the sun happens frequently, but usually not in a metropolitan area easily viewable. This evening (Sunday, May 20, 2012), the Solar Eclipse occurred over the Western United States, this picture was taken in Silicon Valley. As we were looking through a pinhole camera, we looked at the wall of the house and realized that the hundreds of leaves on the tree behind us was acting like hundreds of pinhole cameras against the wall.
In this photo, the moon was about 90% across the face of the sun, so you can see just the crescent of the sun (hundreds of times)! I took a picture of the wall during totality, however the wall was pretty much just dark, not very exciting… So this 90% coverage was about the coolest of the shots!
Of course this picture has absolutely nothing to do with computers, software, or systems other than I usually blog about computer stuff, and I’m in the Silicon Valley where I took this picture, maybe that counts for an interesting blog for the day…
