Chimney Rock

The namesake of Chimney Rock National Historic Site, in western Nebraska.

View from Scotts Bluff

Smaller butte near Scotts Bluff, Western Nebraska.

View from the top. 

Outer Limits

An abandoned bar along HWY 30, north of Sidney Nebraska.

Lonely road thru the Sand Hills of Nebraska

View of Lakeside road, near Crescent Lake, Sand Hills Nebraska.

Totality

Diamond ring with a hint of fire

A tighter crop of the fire.

Diamond ring eclipse

Totality

Image of totality. Shot with my Nikon D7100 digital camera. No solar filter used for the 2:40 seconds of the totality. 

Onset of the eclipse

Shot with a Nikon 1 mirror-less camera, 100 mm zoom lens, at f8, and using a solar filter. I set up this camera to automatically make an image every minutes. Because of the magnification, the sun moved out of the frame twice during the first half of the eclipse. The images were over exposed by camera, so I corrected them a bit in lightroom.

In search of Totality

For the 2017 American eclipse we drove north east to Nebraska in order to experience the totality. Back in December I booked a room in Sidney NE, which is 80 miles south of Alliance NE. We choose Alliance because it is only town in Western Nebraska close to the centerline of the eclipse path. We woke up Monday morning and looked out the motel window to this;

Pea soup thick fog. We drove for an hour and a half through the fog and reached Alliance around 9am. We had reserved space on some private land and set up multiple cameras to record the event.

Buttes

High tech solution

And sometimes new is better.

Windmill

Sometime the best solution is the simplest solution.

Pawnee Butte

Square Bales

Vanishing point

IR film shot of a country road near home.

Red one

Grey one

A pair

A pair of old man owls that get along well enough to live in the same enclosure.

Profile

Flight

Back feathers

Snowy owl

Same owl as Tuesday

But he looks very different without his mouth open.

Last shots of second owl

Another owl

This guy was much less active making photographing him significantly easier.

He has a very peaceful face.

Which one?

Almost identical. How do I choose one over the other?