Pi Day started with a fun celestial show – a total lunar eclipse! The skies were clear and I set up in my backyard to photograph it. Every 3 minutes, my phone would beep a reminder to snap the next picture. From 1:10AM to 4:50AM, the shadow of the Earth fell over the moon, turned it a dull red, and then the shadow retreated.

Exposing the changing light is always a challenge, made easier by the new auto-focus and low-light improvements in mirrorless cameras like my R5. Here’s my favorite image of totality.

With a card full of images, I asked Rich what we should do with the lunatic photographer who took so many pictures. He’s quite used to this problem, and he prescribed a lot of Photoshop. So I started work on some time-lapse composite images to show the trajectory of the eclipse.

It was a very fun, somewhat chilly evening. A break for hot tea during totality was a wonderful thing! As I snuggled in my chair under my blanket, I reached for my iPhone to take my last shot – one of the millions of cameras focused on the tiny dot in the sky!