eclipsed

[underused]

I will admit I'm not someone who gets excited about celestial events. I wasn't thinking about today's eclipse and might have missed it completely if C hadn't come into the office with an empty cereal box looking for tape to make a pinhole camera.

But I heard someone on the radio telling a story about another eclipse and how their science teacher very excitedly told them to "go find a tree!" The leaves on trees would function as a whole collection of pinhole cameras, projecting hundreds--even thousands--of little eclipses onto the ground below.





Who knew?

Comments

[mr_picard]

Oh wow, that's an awesome picture!

[underused]

Thanks! It was fun wandering around with the camera trying to find good shadows, but it was also weird to know the thing creating them was right behind my head and I couldn't look.

[full_metal_ox]

It's a bit like hunting basilisks or Medusa, isn't it.