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Aug. 28th, 2007 05:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogAndrea woke me up out of bed futon to see if I wanted to see the eclipse with her. Well of course! I didn't know there was one coming, but I'm not going to miss seeing it!
She and I went outside together to look and it struck me how different this scene was than it would have been some thousands of years ago when everyone would be out looking at the incredible, unbelievable change in this unchanging sphere. How different things are. How much we've gained, and how much we've lost.
Oddly enough, that reminds me of a gift I bought for Andrea at the thrift store yesterday. But she still hasn't gotten it (I need to write her a card) so it will remain shrouded in lunar mystery for a little while, but the coincidence is a striking one.
I am so lucky indeed to be mated to someone who appreciates the magic and timeless mystery in the music of the spheres.
As Andrea and I stood near the cul-de-sac at the end of our street, a vantage point that gave us a tree and power-line free view, Kuma was barking in the backyard, so Andrea briefly ran over to put him in the house. While she was gone, this long haired cat with a huge bushy tail ran up to me and brushed his or her head against my leg. I bent down to pet it, and it dashed a few yards up the driveway and began to frolic around, rolling over and around and stretching its legs out. When I got up to meet Andrea and looked again, it was gone. Were I a greater believer in the mysticism of synchronicity, I would be convinced that it means something. I'm not entirely sure that I'm not.
As Andrea got in the car to leave for work, I ran upstairs to get my camera, and then to my truck to get my tripod. It was very difficult to get a good picture. It was too dark to auto-focus on, and the viewfinder is not always conducive to doing it manually. I may have to get online and read about how to do photography of heavenly bodies better. I think the lens may have had condensate from the temperature change of going outside too. But here's the best of the results.
You can tell there's a lot of light in the city, even down our little dead-end road. I wanted to try to get more detail by letting in more light, but at 800 speed with an aperture of 5.3 and an exposure time of 20 seconds, things were starting to get overdriven. This is a 13 second exposure with ISO 800 and f-stop 6.3 with an 80mm focus length (the long end of the lens that I have). I need to get a longer zoom for stuff like this.
So tell me: how many of you were out watching the eclipse here tonight?
She and I went outside together to look and it struck me how different this scene was than it would have been some thousands of years ago when everyone would be out looking at the incredible, unbelievable change in this unchanging sphere. How different things are. How much we've gained, and how much we've lost.
Oddly enough, that reminds me of a gift I bought for Andrea at the thrift store yesterday. But she still hasn't gotten it (I need to write her a card) so it will remain shrouded in lunar mystery for a little while, but the coincidence is a striking one.
I am so lucky indeed to be mated to someone who appreciates the magic and timeless mystery in the music of the spheres.
As Andrea and I stood near the cul-de-sac at the end of our street, a vantage point that gave us a tree and power-line free view, Kuma was barking in the backyard, so Andrea briefly ran over to put him in the house. While she was gone, this long haired cat with a huge bushy tail ran up to me and brushed his or her head against my leg. I bent down to pet it, and it dashed a few yards up the driveway and began to frolic around, rolling over and around and stretching its legs out. When I got up to meet Andrea and looked again, it was gone. Were I a greater believer in the mysticism of synchronicity, I would be convinced that it means something. I'm not entirely sure that I'm not.
As Andrea got in the car to leave for work, I ran upstairs to get my camera, and then to my truck to get my tripod. It was very difficult to get a good picture. It was too dark to auto-focus on, and the viewfinder is not always conducive to doing it manually. I may have to get online and read about how to do photography of heavenly bodies better. I think the lens may have had condensate from the temperature change of going outside too. But here's the best of the results.
You can tell there's a lot of light in the city, even down our little dead-end road. I wanted to try to get more detail by letting in more light, but at 800 speed with an aperture of 5.3 and an exposure time of 20 seconds, things were starting to get overdriven. This is a 13 second exposure with ISO 800 and f-stop 6.3 with an 80mm focus length (the long end of the lens that I have). I need to get a longer zoom for stuff like this.
So tell me: how many of you were out watching the eclipse here tonight?
