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Dear All. I have had a dry spell in my photography lately. However I just got a new EOS 5DIII and decided to break it in my photographing the recent annular eclipse. Gretchen and I drove up to Reno, NV (about 8 hours) and observed it from Pyramid Lake. Conditions were very nice, so I put together this little animation. Here are frames taken 5 minutes apart for about 2.5 hours. As you can see we saw a full annular eclipse. You can also see three sunspots (when they aren't covered by the moon!). I used a 70-300mm zoom lens, a 2x tele-converter and stacked OD3 + OD1 filters. These filters cut the light down by a factor of 10,000. I tried a OD5 filter (1/100,000), but it was too much considering how slow this lens is. Enjoy!

I couldn't decide which Holiday card I liked the best, so this year we have two! Thanks again to Dave Burroughs for supplying the base image of me and the Manta.

from Steven and Gretchen. Enjoy,

It seems someone is looking at my photography. :-)

I just missed the shark eating a piece of tuna, but you can still see aggressive posture and a hint of the tuna in her gullet. It also has an interesting combination of motion blur on the body, but the teeth are perfectly sharp (in more ways than one). I also like the sun rays and the rainbow on the body.