tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7501224552541920121..comments2024-03-29T09:08:47.702-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: A Few PhotosSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75502624966703646522017-08-24T00:57:57.346-04:002017-08-24T00:57:57.346-04:00Here in Toledo Oregon, I shot very similar photos ...Here in Toledo Oregon, I shot very similar photos with my Nikon 3400 on auto mode. Got some gremlins in the sky as well. I saw some real pro type shots that were highly Photo shopped. No competition. Photo Shop is like Marxism. You have to change it to make it fit your preconceived notion.Sarthurknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-35181340692050296212017-08-24T00:40:46.877-04:002017-08-24T00:40:46.877-04:00Sorry I missed you when you came to South Dakota, ...Sorry I missed you when you came to South Dakota, would have loved to meet you iffn' ya had a few minutes to spare, I live in Huron and we had about 90% or so, it did get very dark even with the thunderstorms about.Cederqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05603951063463035196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-77229409185709828912017-08-24T00:30:50.027-04:002017-08-24T00:30:50.027-04:00As many have said, totality itself tugs at somethi...<i>As many have said, totality itself tugs at something deep and fundamental in us. Perhaps because it's both familiar in resembling an approaching night yet jarringly unfamiliar as that night turns into something quite alien.</i><br /><br />You are in this large environmental container you live in, called a planet, which is far bigger than yourself<br /><br />and the environment is breaking<br /><br />and. you. are. not. in. control.<br /><br />Like in https://qntm.org/ra when the magical hazard symbol lights up in the sky in mile high glyphs because the Earth will be destroyed in ten minutes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-11415297116258945012017-08-24T00:07:52.143-04:002017-08-24T00:07:52.143-04:00I skipped the totality, 80 miles south of me, to b...I skipped the totality, 80 miles south of me, to be with my wife in the stroke rehab center 180 miles north of me. We still had 90% totality, and we had great crescents under the trees (though I had to explain to the other patients and caretakers exactly <i>why</i> they were there).<br /><br />I <i>will</i> go see the one in 2024, if I have to come back from the dead to do so...Malatropenoreply@blogger.com