Sun, Clouds, Snow

I made this photograph from high on a mountain ridge during a partial eclipse of the sun. I had hiked up early in the day in hopes of photographing the eclipse, and I watched through a heavily filtered camera lens as the moon slowly crept in front of the sun. Though the sun was almost as bright as normal, the day seemed unsettled and strangely quiet.

I made many interesting photographs of the eclipse, but this was my favorite from the series. The day's eerie calm is well represented here. A dark mountain scene floats below the strange sun, a ghost ship on a giant swell. The eclipsed sun is evidenced only by its faint solar halo, asymmetrical and incomplete like the sun itself.