Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Last Night

Last night, as I was leaving the house to take the dogs for their evening walk, I glanced up at the sky and caught, through the lenses of my very dark glasses and several layers of pre-cyclonic cloud, a perfect image of the partial eclipse of the sun. I rushed back inside and grabbed my digital camera, and it malfunctioned. I took only one photograph before I was greeted by a "disk full" message. Usually, there is space for around 400 photographs on the disk, but the response to the stunning sight of the moon taking a bite out of the sun was "disk full"... and the photo... well, it didn't work... all the detail was drowned out by the glare of the sun.
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  1. sarah toaJanuary 28, 2009 at 3:15 AM

    Funny how we can spend all that time looking for cameras, changing the batteries and then peering through a lens, then once the photo is taken, we leave. It's over. I do it a lot when travelling.
    Sometimes, just standing there and soaking it up through our skin and retinas and brain cells makes for a more lasting memory!
    congratulations on your brand new blog BT. Can't wait to read more.

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  2. Barbara TempertonJanuary 28, 2009 at 4:26 AM

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  3. Barbara TempertonJanuary 28, 2009 at 4:28 AM

    Many years ago, now, I recall floating around in Cathedral Pool in Wittenoom Gorge absolutely blissed out on peace and serenity when a car came to a screaming halt in the car park above, a guy jumped out with a video camera, panned the scene and then jumped back into the car and took off. I always thought there was a poem in that somewhere!

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  4. Dr Mad FishFebruary 1, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    Hey, finally found the link to your blog. Was just getting the 'profile ' page before. Nice pic.

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