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JOHN WOLF
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. —Socrates
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hese pictures were taken in a 79-minute photographic flurry, as the moon slipped between the Earth and Sun above Chicago during the great American Eclipse of 2017. At 300 miles from the Path of Totality, Chicago experienced 87% occlusion. Surprisingly, that 13% sliver of solar radiance was enough to make this wildly anticipated cosmic phenomenon pretty much a non-event for the city. No breathtaking corona. No eerie twilight. No afternoon stars. No sudden chill. Still, peak partiality elicited plenty of oohs and aahs from the throngs gathered in open-air locations around the city, clad in cheap paper glasses and geeky viewers made of cereal boxes and tinfoil. For photographers – especially street shooters – the real show was not in the heavens, but down here on Earth. We know that, as is usual in Big Happenings, the event itself, however grand, is almost certain to be eclipsed by the spectacle of us humans throwing ourselves into it.
Viewing note. This PDF is designed to be viewed as single pages. Depending on your Acrobat Reader version, look for functions like View > Page Display > Single Page and select View > Zoom > Fit Height. Then page down through the photos.
This project was created for SoFoBoMo 2017 (Solo Photography Book Month), a photographic initiative in which participants must complete a PDF book of at least thirty-five images taken over any contiguous thirty-one days within two rolling months – this year between July 1 and August 31. All shooting, editing, and production must be done within the chosen
period. Special thanks to my son, Nic, for suggesting this project, just days before the SoFoBoMo deadline. There’s no pretense to art here; just a handful of snapshots of a memorable summer afternoon, as we Earthlings gathered together on our dot of rock in our speck of space under our closest star, in hope of a few moments of personal and communal astonishment. Whether or not the universe delivered doesn’t matter. We gathered to witness, with the wonder of childen. Surely, among all the marvels of the cosmos, there could be no better subject to photograph. John Wolf email: [email protected] tumblr: http://johnwolf.net
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Thanks for viewing. Your comments are welcome at [email protected] tumblr: www.johnwolf.net
JOHN WOLF
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. —Socrates
ECLIPSED
T
hese pictures were taken in a 79-minute photographic flurry, as the moon slipped between the Earth and Sun above Chicago during the great American Eclipse of 2017. At 300 miles from the Path of Totality, Chicago experienced 87% occlusion. Surprisingly, that 13% sliver of solar radiance was enough to make this wildly anticipated cosmic phenomenon pretty much a non-event for the city. No breathtaking corona. No eerie twilight. No afternoon stars. No sudden chill. Still, peak partiality elicited plenty of oohs and aahs from the throngs gathered in open-air locations around the city, clad in cheap paper glasses and geeky viewers made of cereal boxes and tinfoil. For photographers – especially street shooters – the real show was not in the heavens, but down here on Earth. We know that, as is usual in Big Happenings, the event itself, however grand, is almost certain to be eclipsed by the spectacle of us humans throwing ourselves into it.
Viewing note. This PDF is designed to be viewed as single pages. Depending on your Acrobat Reader version, look for functions like View > Page Display > Single Page and select View > Zoom > Fit Height. Then page down through the photos.
This project was created for SoFoBoMo 2017 (Solo Photography Book Month), a photographic initiative in which participants must complete a PDF book of at least thirty-five images taken over any contiguous thirty-one days within two rolling months – this year between July 1 and August 31. All shooting, editing, and production must be done within the chosen
period. Special thanks to my son, Nic, for suggesting this project, just days before the SoFoBoMo deadline. There’s no pretense to art here; just a handful of snapshots of a memorable summer afternoon, as we Earthlings gathered together on our dot of rock in our speck of space under our closest star, in hope of a few moments of personal and communal astonishment. Whether or not the universe delivered doesn’t matter. We gathered to witness, with the wonder of childen. Surely, among all the marvels of the cosmos, there could be no better subject to photograph. John Wolf email: [email protected] tumblr: http://johnwolf.net
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Thanks for viewing. Your comments are welcome at [email protected] tumblr: www.johnwolf.net
