While attending a class at Trinity College in Dublin back in 1999 we experienced a solar eclipse above the bell tower. I didn’t own any fancy photo equipment at the time so this photo was taken whilst holding my sunglasses over my camera lens as a filter!
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I remember watching this eclipse from a field at the back of my town in Devon, we had almost complete totality. My dad was so paranoid we’d go blind if we looked at the sun, I didn’t actually take pictures of the eclipse but I do have some of the people who were watching, they’re quite atmospheric with the daytime darkness
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It must have been taken in 1999 because that’s when I was there for school. Does that sound about right?
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Yes it was definitely 1999, I remember thinking it was an appropriate pre-millennium occurrence!
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Great point. It doesn’t seem like that long ago but I guess it was.
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Would the picture not have come out well if you hadn’t put the sunglasses over it? Or were you just trying to protect your eyes?
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Both. Ha. But I think it would have been too bright. And I remember not being able to see anything without using my sunglasses.
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