The best solar eclipse photo that I've seen

[thewayne]

https://img.redbull.com/images/c_crop,x_0,y_700,h_1759,w_4396/c_fill,w_2050,h_816/q_auto,f_auto/redbullcom/2024/4/8/fxcdqq0aomkkyagujbkw/solareclipse

It's actually not easy to search for photos of Monday's eclipse because Google thinks you want information about Monday's eclipse, not photos of Monday's eclipse. However, the above link was shot Monday by the Red Bull Air Force which took an amazing amount of work to get it right. These people definitely earned their pay check, and IMO, an absolutely huge bonus!

We drove to Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas to the north, pretty much next to DFW airport. The weather was quite nice for the event and for the drive forth and back on Saturday and Tuesday. We were considering driving home Monday after the event, but with the paranoia about gridlock and such, we decided screw it and stayed an extra night. Which was good, we went back to a souffle restaurant (Rise Souffle - highly recommended! Three locations in the Dallas area.) and had a light dinner with a chocolate souffle for dessert! We expected somewhat terrifying weather on the return trip but both managed to dodge it and the storm system kinda wimped out.

I did get some photos, but I'm not very satisfied with them. I'm going to do some more Photoshop on them and if I can improve them to a satisfactory point, I'll post them. But I'm not holding my breath. You've all seen some pretty cool pix by now, I wouldn't be adding much to that collection.

Comments

[kathmandu]

Glad you had a good eclipse trip!

[thewayne]

It was kinda nice going somewhere we didn't know anyone, just the two of us. Didn't know the area, just kicking back a bit, no plans to do anything or eat in specific places. We planned to go to Trader Joe's, which we did, and the one restaurant that I found near the hotel we didn't get around to going to! :-)

[silveradept]

Sounds like it was a good trip, and you got to see something incredibly neat.

[devilc]

I'm glad you and Russet had such a good time!

[kaishin108]

That link shows an incredible photo.

Gene just had his cell phone but it was cloudy where he was but he got one that is pretty cool looking.

[disneydream06]

My friend mrdreamjeans showed me a couple of pictures he found that were pretty amazing.
One was from NASA and you could see the craters on the moon and the other one I am not sure where he came from but it was super cool. It wasn't just the usual ring of light around the moon. Maybe that was the one from NASA. Sorry I can't remember now.
Good luck with your pictures. I hope to see them soon. :)
Hugs, Jon