OUTBACK ECLIPSE FESTIVAL 2002

this is such a cool image….its like its the end of the world!

Sensational, this is incredible!

Cool image Webby, like it a lot.

Awesome!!! Fantastic silouettes!

This is possibly the best sillouette I have ever seen! Art and photography is so subjective, but from my perspective this is fantastic. It is a perfect demonstration of humans getting together for a common cause and it just looks so good!

Webgirl. Today i saw this and thought this is the image of all time! The best!
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well for me it is, since I haven’t ever really seen an eclipse like this one before!!, and the black and white works well in this picture too!! Great picture!!

thanks Dragoncat.. and everyone.. This picture has no modification – its not black and white either.. thats how dark it gets (and darker) when the totality happens.. when the moon and the sun come together.. or something like that… This totality was for 27 seconds only compared to the one in Turkey last year which went just over 3 minutes!

A mind blowing Image, super sensational !!!!!!!!!

actually i lie.. the modifications i made on this pic are taking the noise out and despeckle and smooth – gotta understand, this was taken with my first digital – Olympus C700 UZ, and i didnt take this in full size capacity either.. cuz i only had a limited of cardspace and a limited amount of rechargeable batteries to last me over the time of a week out in the middle of no where at Lyndhurst, South Australia (Located 606 km north of Adelaide, Lyndhurst is an historic old railway town which is now nothing more than a few buildings at the crossroads of the Strzelecki and Oodnadatta Tracks.)

Ah Webgrrl, this brings back memories! Looking at the composition of this photo I could have been standing right next to you as you took this. I must say you did a much better job of capturing it than I did, I was too excited I was actually going to witness a solar eclipse. Great photo, thanks for posting.

Jordan : there was no one standing with me..beside me.. for quite some time. The sun/eclipse was HUGE (especially when i compared it to what i saw last year at in Turkey) – i always wonder how many of those sillouettes i know.. I only got 2 good shots ..the rest of was too bright where the sun was.. as i didnt use filter. In Turkey last year, i didnt use filter either.. Those pics will come here soon..

Incredible work wbgrrl. Has quite a surreal feel about it. Love it.

What a great shot, good one!

That is just fantastic.

Wow!

Extrordinary shot ..... love it.

Incredible!! There’s a lunar total eclipse coming up in a couple of weeks. I hope I can capture that half as well as you’ve captured the solar eclipse here.

simply WOW!

Wonderful image! :)

I was lucky enough to witness a partial solar eclipse back in, I think 1999 which was great. I would love to see a total solar eclipse one day though.

next total eclipse in Australia is on November 13, 2012 where it will start its journey/path right in the middle of Arnehm land and pass thru to Cairns/top end.. and then onto the waters. I do believe the 2012 eclipse, Australia will be the only land the eclipse path happens :)

Start planning now… cuz the next time a total eclipse of the sun to happen in Australia wont be till 2028 :0

I saw a total eclipse in England in Aug 1999 it was an amazing sight, blew me away! (and then it was cloudy!)

This photograph is stunning, I love it.

I am planning on being in Australia in 2012 !

I hope I can get a shot half as good.

Brilliant.

Wow weby! amazing image!:)

Imressive picture! You have captured the very essence of the moment. Your shots shows an old truth well: It’s not the equipment that make the photograph:)

Absolutely fantastic !!!

What amazing shot!

This is stunning. What an experience!

BLACK HOLE MR SPOCK!!!!! BLACK HOLE!!!!! WE’LL ALL BE SUCKED IN AND EJECTED INTO ANOTHER TIME/SPACE CONTINUUM!!!!!

A truly awesome shot with such an ordinary, (in the nicest sense of the word), camera and processed very well.

A winner kiddo!

God bless you and yours,
Dennis

absolutely stunning !

I agree with all of the above. The silhouettes are magnificent. There is a Total Lunar Eclipse in a few days time Aug. 28 I believe.

a wonderful capture!!!

Naaa, youve just stuck a round stick on the print ( just kidding ) wonderful, absolutely stunning !!!

Man this picture is perfect I love this so much. I cant descreibe how amazing i think this is! haha

STUNNING!!!!!

Simply awesome…

Stunning. I have seen one total eclipse, but didn’t capture it on camera. This picture says it all.

Wow,... Thats a great capture of an eclipse. Never seen one before, it was so cloudy that you could hardly tell whether the sun was behind the moon or behind clouds.

I think everyone in Britain would like to come, just to get away from the Olympics. Brilliant, you are extremely skilled at computer effects, and I simply love this shot. FAVED

AWESOME Love it

oh, this is stunning

Awesome image webgrrl!!... I have a question… the Olympus C-700UZ was only a 2 megapixel camera… How did you increase the size of the image big enough to make it available for a large print?

(I was just amazed at how sharp it still was)

Lachlan : I resized in Photoshop (look under HELP and u will see RESIZE IMAGE)

and seriously that Olympus c700 series has amazed me and even PRO photographers.. with its capabilities

I have to say again… “spectacular image!”... Well done!

Amazing composition!!!!!! Fantastic!!!!!

wow

This is an incredible shot!!

Great capture! I was somewhere on that hill at Lyndhurst in ‘02 :D

Awesome!!!!!!

WOW!! incredible shot!

awesome pic!

amazing image webgrrl. well done!

Wow. This is incredible and stunning. What a great experience, being there and getting this amazing shot!

Wow, now I’m ambitious to go to Nepal in 2009!

Amazing…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was going to say.. that’s a once in a lifetime image but in your case that would obviously be wrong !

Erm.. erm..

Ask me again the day before !

amazing!!

Stunning image!!

Greetings, webgrrl! This is by far one of the most wonderful images I’ve ever seen!! And I’m an old guy, life-long photographer, very visually turned on to the world, grew up in the 60’s, etc., etc. I have this waiting in my shopping cart to purchase, probably as a mounted print. I’m hoping the print does justice to the promise of this great photo, in terms of fidelity, image quality, resolution. I’ll Bmail you about questions. Just wanted to say, I love your work - you’re quite prolific, spiritual, and wonderfully creative!
The thing about this image that is so great, aside from the stunning eclipse-infused color and tonal luminosity, is how you’ve captured the powerful, sacred human ritual of shared witnessing/celebration beneath this spectacular event. Congratulations on such a brilliant image - it’s thrilling!! Cheers, mate! Rich

this is amazing! I have seen one eclipse in my live ever that was in germany a long time ago, but this is awesome crystal clear and better to see here than in real life…fantastic

an amazing shot & an amazing memory, I was lucky enough to be up on that hill somewhere at that point in time ; )
congrats to you on how well you’ve been going with it all ; )