Jonathan, M'lyn, and Madison.
Cousins Trudy and Vanessa and families organized an eclipse-watching reunion for the 2017 All-American Eclipse at Bethel Church outside Cadiz KY. It was like a mini-Thomas reunion with cousins Reva and Vicki flying in from California, cousin Ann and family driving up from Tennessee, the Greene Gals drove down from Rhode Island (dropping Devlin off in Bloomington IN to start her freshman year at Indiana University), Robert driving in from Missouri, and we drove down from Saint Paul.
Jonathan, M'lyn, and Madison.
David and Martha Sue.
Bethel Church - everyone seems to be looking at the sky.
Reva and Vicki.
Madison and Harris - the viewing party relocated to Vanessa and Don's house for the broader vista.
Eclipse watching in the driveway.
Madison, Harris (flat on her back), Vicki (under tree), and M'lyn.
Bob checking the camera angle and focus prior to the main event.
The main event and star of the show
Tree leaves act like pin-hole cameras projecting the crescent of the eclipsed sun on the sidewalk.
Down at the farm, M'lyn and Madison check out the slab by foot.
Looking into the shallows.
On the road to Rhode Island.
The images on the site, unless otherwise noted, were taken using an Olympus Stylus 1 (3968×2976 pixel RAW file, ~13 MB). The three panorama shots at the top of this page were made with my iPhone.
I've whittled the image size down to two sizes - a thumbnail I use on the page for the day, and a 1280x960 pixel (or 960x1280 pixel, assuming I haven't cropped or altered the size) image that I've saved optimized for web usage.
A lot of the images I doctored using Photoshop Elements, a trimmed down version of Adobe Photoshop. My most frequent adjustments were: "Crop", "Adjust Light & Shadows" to cope with the extremes of light and dark, "Auto Contrast" and "Auto Levels". I’ve also occasionally run the image through an app called “Noiseless” which degranulates the images I’ve had to really lean on to bring out.