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Why I did not try to photograph the eclipse

I was in Side, Turkey, for the total solar eclipse last March. Despite a recent interest in photography, I did not even pick up my camera during the eclipse. Why?

  1. I had never seen totality before and I wanted to experience it without distraction.
  2. My longest lens was 85mm, so my photo would show the eclipse as a really small fuzzy black spot.
  3. I knew that there would be people making pictures like this:

Total solar eclipse showing both corona and Earthshine
so I might as well not bother.

This is by one Nick King; I found it at the Solar Eclipse Gallery. Click it for a really big version. There are plenty more good ones there.

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