Just One Opportunity
by Marvin Spates
Title
Just One Opportunity
Artist
Marvin Spates
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Traveling from Tampa, Fl. all the way up to Columbia, South Carolina to see the eclipse was for sure a life time trip for me!!! What a thrill to be there as the sun was going dark, and hearing the birds, and insects react to the darkness!!! Also to hear crowds come to life as the light began to return. I have never seen anything as amazing as this!!! After shooting my image with a 300mm and cropping it down as much as I dare, I could see details that was amazing!!! My high resolution camera did a fantastic job!! I would say that this is a great image for any place you want as a talking point in your home or office!!!! "Just One Opportunity" to get it right!!!!! Shot Aug. 21 2017.
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August 24th, 2017
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Comments (108)
Keith Johnson
Awesome eclipse capture! What kind of filter did you use on this? I am wanting to try and shoot the upcoming eclipse in the spring, it's supposed to go practically straight over my hometown. I'm perplexed as to how I want to shoot, the only lenses I have are a 17-55mm wide angle and a 150-600mm tele.
Julie Weber
Well this one certainly got some attention! You captured one of the very special moment of the eclipse. Congratulations on this momentous image. L/f
Bob Christopher
Hi Marvin... I like your image. Wow, you made the effort and now you have a "once in a lifetime " image. Well done... Cheers Bob p.s. Good luck with the weather this week...Stay safe in Florida...Cheers Bob fv
Deb Breton
Holy Crap Marvin, you didn't?! You captured the DIAMOND!! Whoa! This is so friggen cool!!!!
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Revisiting this amazing shot to see what I missed. It doesn't look like what I saw, because although I was fortunate enough to be handed an antique welding helmet through which to view it right at the peak time, I was visiting an old friend in Michigan that day and we weren't on the band of totality.
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