‘None of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life’: Maurice Bakley’s best phone picture

Summary

An ​e​lementary school ​w​atch party turned into a great opportunity to take a child’s-eye view of a spectacular astral phenomenon Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son’s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he took this photograph. As he had arrived early to fit his iPhone to a tripod to capture a time-lapse of the event (with the help of a monocular and a solar filter), he reached for his iPad for this shot. “The boys in the photo, one of whom is my son, are part of a tight group of friends. They’ve known each other since kindergarten through their…

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