It’s been riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat reading, following the escapades and adventures of the Ice In Space eclipse chasers and I’m so pleased that everyone managed to come away with something, whether photographic record or ever-lasting memories.
On a gloriously clear morning, I set up at Luggage Point on the N shore of the mouth of the Brisbane River, some 5 or 6kms from work, mainly for the clear E horizon.
Taken with our Canon 7D and 17-40mm lens mounted on a (fixed) tripod. I used the Canon TC-80N3 remote timer set to take an image every 5 minutes. I’d left my run a little late so all I had was a piece of Baader visual solar film taped over the lens hood and this worked quite well.
The foreground was from a separate exposure taken as I was packing up after the event and I subsequently blended the 34 frames of the path of the Sun/Moon pairing in CS6. The gradients and flares were impossible to tame unfortunately.
What is not conveyed by this montage is the foul stench from the nearby sewerage treatment plant….
Cheers
Dennis