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Post 1

Bluebottle

Hello Cactuscafe

I don't know if you've read this article:
A87829555 Experiencing a Solar Eclipse
I mention it as I was planning to update it and hoped to include some of the photos that have been taken of the latest eclipse, including some that you took. If you're happy for me to include one or two, please let me know – you'd be credited as being a photographer, naturally.

Any questions, give me a shout!

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Post 2

cactuscafe

Hullo BB! CC here. Together we could make our own broadcasting company, the BBCC. haha. Or the Brilliant Beautiful Cosmic Company, or ... smiley - rofl

What a wonderful article! A real community document. I love all the different voices, and impressions of the darkness, the silence, the coldness. And all the other information, about where to see the next eclipse and how it's even OK to prefer lunar eclipses. smiley - rofl

Of course you can include any photos of mine! Let me know when the updated piece is out!

cc smiley - choc


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Post 3

Bluebottle

Alas, CBBC has been taken smiley - winkeye

After reading through what people have written about the 1999 one, is there anything you'd like to include from your experiences of this year's eclipse?

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Post 4

cactuscafe

Hullo BB!

I have already a quirky (true) story of that day, written in my notebook, which I was going to print in my journal one of these days.

It's too long for your article I think, but if there's any sentences or textures you can pull from it that would benefit your piece, then I'd be delighted to contribute them, please to go ahead and pull a thread or two. heheh. If not, well, happy to present it here anyway.

smiley - moon

I wasn't expecting to see much of the solar eclipse, as the sky that day (March 20th 2015) was hazy, and I was feeling particularly lazy and lacking in expectation.

However, I put my camera in my bag, just to tempt fate, and made sure that I wasn't late for the changing light. I sat in the window seat of a coffee shop in town taking photos of light bulb reflections. It was strange to see all the streetlights shining so bright, in the fading morning daylight.

I started to write a story in my head about an eclipse of two light bulbs, which fortunately was interrupted by a commotion outside. People were rushing out into the street, waving phones and i-pads at the sky. I rushed out also, to see what was happening.

The clouds had parted enough for a glimpse if the crescent sun. I stood there in the crowd waving my camera at the sky, in the curious eclipse halflight, which to me was not like dawn, nor dusk.

We all agreed that there wasn't much to distinguish our crowd from a crowd of our early ancestors, when it came to the sense of vast cosmic awe. Perhaps, though, the sight of a crowd of modern-day humans waving digital cameras at the sky would have scared them even more than a shadow over the sun.

And it was all much more impressive than an eclipse of two light bulbs, although I might write that story one day.

smiley - moon

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