Today I awoke with with not so high hopes as the local news dude whose name I can’t pronounce, Weather.com and Accu Weather had not been giving very promising weather reports.
On any account- I laid in bed drinking Deer Park Sparkling Lime Water (the most flavorful fizzy water on the market in my opinion). I feared the worst as the prior forecasts had stated mostly cloudy. Maybe the sun would bear its face but at the time it looked unlikely. I had already canceled a trip to Cleveland on account of extreme price gouging (I get it) and the gamble of not having good skies to photograph this phenomenon. So instead of 100% totality, best case scenario where I live it would be 92% and some change.
I’m glad I stuck around my house because I was able to contently photograph what was available to me- which was clouds, trees and oh- the sun did decide to come out.
Moving to my front yard I was able to get more views not blocked by other things like branches and sticks.
This was much more challenging than I thought it would be. However, it played out to be a fun and unique experience.
Images shot with a Nikon D850 and Tamron 150-600mm lens with a 95mm ICE ND Filter. Enjoy!
-Mike
