Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave R wrote "Nice photo, Doug. Somewhere I've got a photo that I took (using a Leica M4) about 20 years ago during a partial solar eclipse. I was in Salt Lake City at the time. I didn't photograph the actual eclipse. I just photographed the shadow of a tree during the eclipse. What was strange about the image was that the shadow from each leaf appeared to have a little notch cut out of it, as a result of the eclipse. I once saw a similar photo that Ansel Adams had taken years ago. It wasn't the kind of photo you'd hang on a wall, but it showed the somewhat bizarre terra manifestation of a solar eclipse. If I can ever find the negative I'll scan it. Or if someone else has one, I'd like to see it. Like I said, it's really bizarre." - - - - - - Do you mean pictures like this? http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+Solar+Eclipse.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+eclipse+detail.jpg.html They were taken during a partial solar eclipse visible in New York in 1969. The images were formed by sunlight passing through gaps between the leaves of a tree, each gap acting like a tiny pinhole camera. As you can see the average New Yorker is pretty blase about astronomical happenings. The camera was my ever ready Rollei 35. I don't recall what the film was. Larry Z