Thursday, February 21, 2008

St. Clair de Lune (Eclipse over Lake St. Clair, Michigan

This is the eclipse as seen from Detroit Michigan over Lake St. Clair.
Sorry there are so many pictures, but I wanted to show the whole
thing, more or less. Difference in size and location in the screen
are due to my readjustments as I had to keep moving the camera as the
moon rose through the sky.

I took these pictures with a tripod and with a Canon 300mm zoom lens
and a Canon 30D digital SLR. It was very cold and both Biker Buddy
and I feel on the ice. (He got a huge goose-egg!)

13 comments:

R.R. said...

Amazing pics. A very, very good job.

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Thanks so very much, R.R. I really really appreciate it! :-D

BerryBird said...

Mary, these pictures are gorgeous! Very well done.

Anonymous said...

Fantastic captures! What is a "goose-egg"?

Jim Klenke said...

Wonderful pictures, we missed that the other night.

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Thanks so much, Berrybird, anonymous and Jim for your kind comments.

A goose eggs is a huge, swollen bruise--this one is more like an ostrich egg!

I had fun taking these! :-D

Anonymous said...

Oh OUCH! No pain no gain ... :)

R&R said...

What photographers (and their partners) have to go through to get fantastic shots!

Besides the moon shots, I like the biker buddy shot 'cuz it shows how big the ice floes are.

Dick said...

wow, amazing fantastic pictures. Very good.

bluerose said...

Great shots! I'm jealous. We had thunderstorms here. Even if it had been clear, I really struggle with getting good shots of the moon.

I really like the first two pics, too!

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

WOW! Thanks so much for all your kind comments! :-D

I really DID have fun taking pictures, but Biker Buddy's bruise is getting worse rather than better, one of the worse bruises I've ever seen in my life.

Fortune Cookies said...

ut oh! I hope biker buddy is ok. nothing's broken is it? these are phenomenal pictures!

Leova said...

love the 3rd photo, with reflection on the ice, great capture!