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By Cheryl Lindo Jones in Picture a Day — Apr 8, 2024

Picture(s) a Day: Apr 8

Happy solar eclipse day! Sadly I didn't have the view of the total solar eclipse where I live, but I captured a few images of the partial eclipse we got.

Partway through the eclipse, a bigger "bite" out of the sun visible

I caught these eclipse-shaped shadows on the ground from the sun shining through tree branches. The little gaps among the branches act as a camera obscura, projecting the eclipse image onto the ground.

Diagonal power lines framing an overexposed eclipse in the middle of the frame, with a smaller, upside-down, eclipse-shaped reflection below the overexposed sun. — I was going to try to combine two images, this one exposed for the power lines, and another exposed for the sun, but I saw the little eclipse-shaped reflection from the 4 filters attached to my camera that I went ahead and called the photo concept done.

The eclipsed sun visible as a wide crescent shape against a black background, ~30% obscured — This was the full extent of the eclipse we can see from my location. Still cool.

Close-up image of a bright red, shiny ladybug sitting on a bougainvillea leaf with other leaves with red and green gradients surrounding — Here's a bonus ladybug on a bougainvillea plant that I happened to spy.