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2010 EASTER ISLAND ECLIPSE
  nice title! showing the wropes to my new night student photographer OLD CAMP PEOPLE ENTERED BACKWARD IN THOSE SMALL CAMPS TO WATCH OUT FOR SPIRITS BIG MAMA TURTLE! ARE WE IN THE GALAPAGOS REGION? BIG MAMA TURTLE 2 NOT A SMALL ONE! CHURCH STATUES EVEN THE CHURCHE'S STATUES LOOK LIKE MOAIS EASTER ISLAND MOAI SOME CAN WEIGH AS MUCH AS 70 TONS! Moais  MOAI THE ONLY ONE WITH EYES   no they're not hats they are the hair made out of red volcanic rocks  the famous 15!    one taking a nap!   won't fall soon! still has the whole body underground! fisheye view  each one represent a king  Julie fell in love    milky way and Moai wanted to do some with the 15 Moais, but there whrere some guards at night! the famous Tongariki Moais  near the quarry  the eclipse will start over there  listen,,,,dodadoo do you want to know a secret...dodadoo  even the Moais wanted to see the eclipse    a lot of them are face down because of wars and even a tsunami  many are burred up to their necks   180 to 200 tons the biggest Moai, still lying in the ground unfinished from the front 5 story high, the head at 21 feet  near the quarry of red stones   magnetic roc  move the compass and the needle moves   Hey the eclipse's starting guy on a bike with a telescope...hmmm...at the airport! setting up for the eclipse had to move 5 times by the guards till I found a spot further than wished for WATCHING THE PARTIAL PHASES EVERYBODY WEARING THE SPECIAL SOLAR GLASSES CRESCENTS PROJECTIONS SIGN WITH HOLES PROJECTING ON A WHITE SHEET SHOWING SOLAR CRESCENTS MOAI GUARD WE CAN ALSO PROJECT THEM ON FACES MY MONA LISA! HER SMILE WENT THROUGH MY HEART! PARTIAL PHASES AND IN THE FACE OF SABRINA MY PERSONAL GUIDE FOR THE DAY! partial phases one hour for those phases   diamond ring filters off! totality with Moais closer would have been astonishing! all sky picture 220 X 360 degrees coverage show the shadow cone in the center and the horizon outside the cone! Complete with me and the Tongariki Moais different exposures of totality    sun's magnetic field seen by increasing the time exposure my first earthshine we can see the lunar craters lit by the light bounced back from earth in this over exposed shot 3rd contact or 2nd diamond ring  a few prominences  shadow bands in the clouds small vertical black lines in the clouds: a great premier in eclipse photography diamond ring and atmospheric corona we can see a yellow corona around the diamond ring last picture before putting back the solar filters  partial phases about another hour      happy guy  post eclipse happy guy who has astonishing confidence in his camera strap! 16 Moais??? they added one more for the eclipse! arm hair shadow right after the diamond ring, we can actually see individual hair shadows on the white sheet. Cannot be done when the sun is full cool souvenirs but not the most unusual want to bring him back!  Rapa Nui birdman  flashlight writings  a UFO probably a shooting star going in our direction...or E.T.'s spaceship vaporizing in our atmosphere stunning ...and the volcano is not bad either long exposure at night  poor soil mountain  local dancers during our last days we're leaving soon...snif, snif! after that, some of us went to the Atacama dessert in the north part of Chile not only traffic lights they also have UV ray lights star gazing night in San Pedro De Atacama after 1 week on the island we went to the Atacama desert in the north part of Chile to see the stars, the VLT observatory, geysers, moon valley... 1972, they had rain after 400 years without any!  vulture waiting for lunch  copper train Chile is the first producer of copper in the world... (30%) strange reddish nebulae? nobody could identify it! tree nebulae increasing the exposure...bingo Magellanic clouds doesn't mean it's gonna rain! milkyway going to sleep!  so many stars  looks like the greay barrier reef by painting with my red light, I could change the color of the trees to give that underwater effect! most of the people did observations only me, I wanted to try my D3s in the dark because where I live, in june, there's no dark skies! 4 sec exposure and it comes out like in books milky way with my 28mm F-18 flying by  F-18 in formation  few museum visits they have incredible rocks! with tiny fish stuck in there!  160 million year old Rorschach test psychiatry tests with ink drawings...what do you see? even a Easter island shaped rock!  geysers at 14 000 ft here, oxygen is rare sunrise over geysers at 14 000 ft, they are the highest in the world colorfull bacteria painting!  an old faithfull went up to 16-17 ft!  moon valley because it resembles it strangely Huston, the eagle has landed in the front, we see 3 Virgin Maries. but in the back, I could see a big bird! his royal highness the sun going down, the shadows are very long! NASA practices here it ressembles the moon a lot lady scratching her chin  a dream come true for David... he's on the moon! we can see the sediments  don't catch it forbitten to throw garbage in the waste container?  Neil Armstrong tried with a running shoe... it's one footstep...no, no, no it's one small step...yeah ...that's better... you would think we're above clouds but it's just fog 4 X 4, automatic transmission, antilock brakes, AM/FM radio, 200 mpg!!! a vicuna 10 times thinner than sheep's whool, that whool is very expensive. A scarf is $ 1000.00! the famous viscacha 1/2 rabbit, 1/2 kangaroo, he jumps like a kangaroo and is very wild     lamas  windy  nice hair due....  new style... hair on the side  our host for a traditional lunch very photogenic  with dad  impressive truck factory  20 million $ for the big one in the back  you talking to me?  awsome jack not very portable 20 000 $ for one tire 4 seasons, winter with studs?...add a small fee I'm ok...I'm good  the engine  where are we going now?  VLT observatory  VLT telescopes very large telescopes. four 24ft mirrors that can be plugged together giving enough power to see a man (or a woman) on the Moon! earthquake sensor indicator  the martians are coming! highly-trained-calm operators at the control! the temp is not the same!  found the remote for the scopes!  hey ...the floor's moving!  diamond ring  there's some dust on the sec mirror  astronomers residence in case of rain, they put sand bags to prevent water intake in the residence inside the dome big illuminated dome during the day and at night , theres a Montreal olympic stadium canvas (that works...) to cover the dome and prevents lights from getting out! we can see the canvas in the center!   nice vue from here!  I felt full of energy after that visit! i felt strong enough to lift that big rock! and I did!  small bird      flamingo      too close! but we can see his feathers! barely made it! just a tad of sky between his nose and the edge of the picture!  eclipse chassers...arrrhhh fan club following us famous rock with a hole   capricorn tropic at about 23 degrees latitude, this is a marker for closest spot on earth to the sun in December T-SHIRT CLOSE-UP can't see anything is in memory of a lady in Guadelouppe in 98 who refused to take off her solar glasses during totality...she missed the whole show! would be a nice tattoo |