
In the shadow of the Moon
In the Shadow of the Moon - 2024 How it Started In the Shadow of the Moon is the culmination of a six-year-long project that began in the year 2018, following the prior American solar eclipse. Back then, I struggled to produce an image with the technical and aesthetic qualities I desired, because the tools available to me were not powerful enough to handle images of the total solar eclipse. I realized that if I wanted to do this right, I had to do it myself. So I set out to develop my own image-processing software to tackle the unique photographic challenges presented by the total eclipse. (Getting set up for the 2017 Total Eclipse) The Capture The Corona can only be observed in the narrow path of totality, the stretch of land that falls under the shadow of the Moon. I found myself in Western Ohio for this eclipse, as I was unable to make it to better weather in Maine after I had to completely change my plans away from Texas! The location had some high cloud