Love your video. Dinkus Stinkfinger is my new favorite newscaster! I began planning in early February by reserving a campsite at a state park in southern Illinois called Stephen Forbes Recreational Area. It was my second choice as my first choice, Rend Lake State Park located near the centerline of totality was already completely booked. Fortunately, my second choice offered nearly 3 minutes of totality which was good enough, and they had half a dozen sites left so I snagged one. I live in central Illinois so my driving time from home to campsite was 3 hours 15 minutes. I drove down the night before and pitched a tent, then hunkered down during one of the worst rainstorms I've ever been in a tent in. During a break in the rain I also pitched a tent for my grandson and his friend, who wouldn't arrive until near midnight due to my grandson not getting off work until late. I had convinced my grandson and his friend that this event was not to be missed and would be worth the drive. After a cold stormy night we woke up to a sunny day with light wispy clouds. Yes!! The weather looked like it was going to cooperate. We only had to drive a short distance to get to a nearby marina on the lake we were camped at and set up for the event there with the lake as a background. I had a smart telescope set up to record video and a still camera set up to do stills. The still camera was, unfortunately, a failure so I did not get any good still pics. I won't get into the details of that here because it was all my fault, but, thats ok. It was the experience that was important and the witnessing of totality is something that can never be forgotten and no pictures taken by anybody can replace the experience of being there and seeing it with your own eyes. The reactions of those around me were priceless and I'm so glad my grandson and his friends made it to experience this amazing event. I also had a Insta360 camera set up to record the surroundings and reactions and the smart telescope I deployed captured a pretty good video that I will cherish. Many days later I still feel like I'm coming down from the event and am enjoying others reactions to it. Similar to you in that you are now evaluating landscape photography (go for it!) because of the eclipse, I am quickly developing an interest in astro photography and intend to further travel down that rabbit hole as I am now researching dark sky areas to travel to. Your pictures and videos turned out great. Some of the best I've seen. Thanks for sharing your experience!
@GrahamMediaLLC
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your story! Sounds like it was a hell of a trip. Unfortunate that you didn’t get any useable still images out of it, but I’m sure it was still such a cool experience. We got about 5 minutes of totality in Ohio and were lucky enough to get it right in the back yard of where we were staying. We planned a couple months out and I researched the best way to get good photos of the event for quite a while. I’ll definitely get some more expensive and well built equipment for the next one (star tracker, better filters, etc.) but what I had for sure worked this time. I just bought an insta360 x4 (which I’m recording a review on as well) and I wish I would’ve had it for this, it’s such a cool camera! Dinkus will be back for future videos 🤭
@morrning_group
3 ай бұрын
🌟 Wow, what an incredible video! 🌟 Thank you so much for sharing your experience of the 2024 solar eclipse! 🌞🌕 The footage, the excitement, and the personal reflections were all amazing! 🙌 🧐How did you manage to stay focused on capturing the eclipse while experiencing such an awe-inspiring event? 🤔 Thanks again for this fantastic video! 📽👏
@GrahamMediaLLC
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! It was definitely an emotional experience. I think the best way to describe it was when it started hitting totality I almost got that feeling like right before I used to step on stage, I had all the focus I needed and just felt relaxed but excited. It was a powerful moment.
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