[Phil Hart]

Originally Posted by ourkind

very nice Phil

Thanks Carlos!

Originally Posted by CapturingTheNight

Perseverance pays off. Awesome shots. Well done Phil. Glad you got a look. If it was a weekend with that forecast I would have done the eight or so hour drive to somewhere in the west of Vic too, but work sadly got in the way. There was a glimmer of hope for a small break in the clouds here when just as the eclipse was starting the Sun actually came out and the clouds appeared to be breaking up a little but I was still at work at that time and by the time I got home there was a massive wall of black cloud covering the western horizon. At the time of sunset it was raining.

Thanks Greg. An 8 hour drive would have been a big gamble for this one. I very nearly missed the whole thing and but for the sun squeezing through a 'hardly there' gap at the end would have very little to show for it, and that was after putting myself in what I thought would be about the best possible position weather-wise. It rained most of the drive to this location, a few more drops while I was setting up and then rained again a few minutes after sunset and much of the drive home. Weather gods did not make this one easy!

Originally Posted by iceman

That's fantastic. One of the best shots I've seen of yesterday's eclipse.

Cloudy at home :/

Thanks Mike. Sorry you missed out.. that was a big cloud band yesterday!