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  Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 1:09PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  I knew there was going to be a solar eclipse today but I didn't expect it to be a clear day here, that and I didn't expect to really care. I woke up early this morning to an email telling me that a (really) well paid 6 month job that was supposed to happen was no longer happening. I had been banking on this job to get me through the rest of the year and was finally thinking to myself, "no more struggling! Fuck the global economic crisis!". But alas :(

  So then...I realized the eclipse was happening and I stepped outside horribly equipped to capture the event. Sorry but my lumix fx-180, even though it is a great little digital camera, just wasn't cut out for it. None the less I hit the street with a cannibalized pair of sunglass lenses hoping they would work as an impromptu neutral density filter. I quickly realized it wasn't going to happen. I remembered back in my college days, myself and friends had been sitting outside eating lunch whilst a partial solar eclipse was occurring. One of my friends had poured his pepsi into a bowl and we were watching the eclipse from the reflection. I immediately began looking for dark puddles of water and dark tinted windows to capture reflections from. The resulting images are very interesting, a bit spooky even. To tell the truth, they look like shots of the moon at night.

  Anyways I believe I started this post with some intent of painting a moral to things. At the end of this all, I felt a little better and realized in the scale of things, we are all small and sometimes our problems are just not as shitty as they might seem. If we stop to think about how much our lives suck, then we could really miss the spectacle s of the enormous universe around us ie. giant moon passing in front of even more giant sun all at the edge of a galaxy that is a mere spec of sand in a beach larger than anything describable.

  Hope someone enjoys the pics... solar eclipses rock! Next one in T minus 100 years and counting!