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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
David S Young

Confessions of an eclipse photographer: shooting my first ring of fire eclipse and discovering that photographing from a Caribbean cruise ship is much harder than it looks!

Ring of fire eclipse.

I have photographed solar eclipses seven times over the last 47 years, and in the first part of this series I described my first efforts in the pre-internet era – and the hard lessons that you learn when chasing the shadow of an eclipse. The most important one is that even with the best planning, you can never to be certain to avoid clouds obliterating your view!

In this second installment, we head to Vizcaíno Desert and the Caribbean for my next experiences of photographing solar eclipses…

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