Sun, Clouds, Snow: Near Elfin Lakes, BC

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.

Sun, Clouds, Snow: Near Elfin Lakes, BC, 2002