lost in France

Well, it was dark to be fair...

Just last month we lost a Welsh music icon when Bonnie Tyler passed away.  She really was a local girl, hailing from a village around a mile from where we live but reached international super-stardom.

It seems fitting then that close to her funeral we should experience a solar eclipse.  A partial one maybe instead of a total eclipse (of the heart!) but as coincidences go, not a bad one.

Now, photographing such an event is tricky, with the usual results just looking like a crescent moon in a black sky.  So, I decided on the longest exposure I dared to shoot, and got something mildly more interesting, I think.

Fujifilm X-H2, Fujinon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 at 400mm
1/30th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
tripod, Kase Wolverine 10-stop ND filter, self-timer release

Though perhaps an even more exciting (no, really) image is the one below (shot with an iPhone 17 Pro Max) with the eclipse projected through a Japanese maple onto our fence.