I spent a couple hours shooting the 2012 annular eclipse. I couldn’t get a hold of a solar filter so I made a quick pinhole camera and tried to find a unique backdrop for the sun’s projection and come up with something interesting.
I poked a hole in some cardboard and taped it to the top of my tripod to make my last-minute pinhole camera. This street art is located in downtown Phoenix, on a west-facing wall of the recently shuttered Phoenix Public Market. I liked the bright blue paint and black skyline for the backdrop.
Partial eclipse, over the city
On an adjacent red-brick wall, the moon shifts directly in front of the sun.
Eclipse self portrait