slgwv's photos with the keyword: solar

We found this amusing--the windmill is obviously defunct, with only the tower left, but a solar panel is running the well pump! And it must be working--the stock tank is full. North of Sulphur, Nevada, east of the Black Rock Desert. The high point on the skyline, just to the right of the solar panel, is King Lear Peak (8923 ft/2720 m), high point of the Jackson Range.

From a friend's front yard in Keizer, Oregon (a suburb of Salem). His house lay right in the path of totality, and he let us park our trailer on his lawn. I didn't realize the corona would overexpose; if I ever get a chance to try another eclipse photo, I'll stop down the exposure a couple of notches. Anyway, the sight is definitely worth traveling to see. You can understand why the spectacle was a total(!) freakout for people who didn't know what was going on. At the point of totality, when the (dark) lunar disk is outlined by the corona, it looks as though there's a black hole in the sky where the sun's supposed to be. The insert shows a streetlight across from the house that clicked on during totality. We also saw Venus and Jupiter, but got no pix. There's also a "ring of twilight" all around, from the sky in the distance beyond the Moon's shadow.