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I have no idea why our shadows do this during the eclipse, but it looked really disturbing. (We were blurry, but there were also distortions--like the bits of Bensons fingers appearing between his fingers.

One of the cool things about an eclipse is how an image of the eclipse is visible if there's a small hole for the light to get through.

One effect I didn't know about was this weird overall shadow effect--our shadows became very blurry. I was trying to capture that and didn't even know I had captured the eclipse crescent until I saw this photo later.

Right at the peak.

It wasn't _quite_ what I expected. I knew that we wouldn't see the full ring of the annular solar eclipse, but I expected it to get darker outside than it ended up getting. However, it was clear that it was a bit dimmer than it had been (suddenly we didn't need our sunglasses), and the light had a somewhat unusual flat quality to it.

The eclipse near it's peak. The bright part on the bottom is the sun reflecting off of San Francisco Bay.

I didn't have a nice filter for my camera, relying instead on the eclipse glasses we had. Photos without the filter don't look like there's an eclipse at all--but you can see a couple of images of the eclipse as sparkles here.