

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!


MOAI
THE ONLY ONE WITH EYES



no they're not hats
they are the hair made out of red volcanic rocks







won't fall soon!
still has the whole body underground!


each one represent a king




milky way and Moai
wanted to do some with the 15 Moais, but there whrere some guards at night!

the famous Tongariki Moais


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



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




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


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






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




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



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!



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



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


a dream come true for David...
he's on the moon!


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








new style... hair on the side

our host
for a traditional lunch




20 million $ for the big one in the back


awsome jack
not very portable

20 000 $ for one tire
4 seasons, winter with studs?...add a small fee





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!


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!



I felt full of energy after that visit!
i felt strong enough to lift that big rock!












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



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!
