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Total Solar Eclipse 2017 (Gallery)

Early in the eclipse, seen though glasses.

The outlet mall at Woodburn was offering eclipse parking for $20. Lots of people took them up on it, some of them with more elaborate equipment than a pair of glasses. Like this filtered telescope.

Binoculars also work great as projectors (just don’t look through them!)

Light filtering through trees creates hundreds of tiny pinhole cameras, projecting the image of the eclipse!

Moments before the total eclipse. The camera’s auto-correction makes it look normal, but it was a lot dimmer than usual. Not yellowish like golden hour light or reddish like wildfire smoke (we got plenty of that later in the week), just…dimmer.

Corona! Photos really don’t do it justice. The whole sky turned dark blue, like twilight, with the shadowed moon looking deep black, like a hole in the sky. And the corona is *bright*! That’s something I’d never really grasped from photos: it’s not harmfully bright, and it’s not enough to drown out stars and planets, but it’s still *much* brighter than the sky around it.

Something that photos never prepared me for: the sun’s corona is still very bright, just not harmfully so. In this shot, it’s bright enough to drown out the black circle in the center. But the fact that you can see Venus and the sun at the same time is kind of a hint as to what’s going on…

Special coffee drink for the eclipse. Not sure if all Starbucks had it, or only those within the total eclipse’s path.

RAM also had a special beer for the eclipse.

Expanded on K2R

Somewhere along highway 6 between Portland and Tillamook

Waterfall 3 on Flickr.

Somewhere along highway 6 between Portland and Tillamook, Oregon. Literally less than a minute’s walk from a turnout on the side of the road.

Next time I’ve got to remember: Take a photo with the [edit] phone too just to get the GPS stamp.

Seaside at Sunset

Seaside at Sunset on Flickr.

Beach head at Seaside, Oregon, near the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail, just before sunset after a day of patchy rain.

Rocks away from the beach at Rockaway Beach

Rocks away from the beach at Rockaway Beach on Flickr.

Authentic Voodoo Doughnuts Line

Authentic Voodoo Doughnuts Line on Flickr.

On my trip to Portland last month, we decided we had to make one stop at Voodoo Doughnuts. It was suggested that we check out the secondary location out in the suburbs to avoid the crowds at the downtown location.

We got the authentic experience anyway.

Bonus: The twenty-somethings in line behind us were singing Les Mis.

Mt. Hood at Sunset

Mt. Hood at Sunset on Flickr.

My scenic shots from last week’s trip to Portland are up on Flickr.