These images were captured at the Painted Hills National Monument near Mitchell, OR during the full solar eclipse in August 2017
The sunset the night before the eclipse out at the Painted Hills was truly exceptional and I knew that I’d chosen the perfect place to witness and capture this incredible event…
This timelapse composite was created by taking a photo of the sun every 3 minutes using a 200mm lens and a 16-stop ND filter mounted to a Sony a7r
While there were plenty of things that happened during the eclipse that were disorienting, alarming or just downright strange, one of the coolest and craziest things was that there was a 360 degree sunset. This photo is taken looking East at 10:18am as the sun was directly overhead…