Here's a lovely time-lapse photograph of the recent solar eclipse, shot by Nils van der Burg in Madrid. He explains, "What you see is the form of the sun when the moon was passing in front of it, then the shadow of the moon is reflected through the leaves of the trees." Link
(thanks, John Parres)
Update: Here's a video clip of the scene, cool! Link
Reader comment: Tom Radcliffe says,
The solar eclipse photos are very cool. The projection of images by leaves in this way is an example of a natural pin-hole camera. The small gaps between the leaves act as "pinholes" in the sense that they are very much smaller than the distance to the ground (and very very much smaller than the distance to the sun!)
Reader comment: M. Merrick says:
Just a little correction: The photograph is not a time-lapse photography. In fact, it probably had a fairly quick shutter speed in order to catch the light cast through the trees without the blur of them moving in the breeze. It's still a neat-o eclipse photo though!
Reader comment: Terry Karney replies:
I just wanted to clarify M. Merrick's comment. Time lapse photography can have high shutter speeds. Time lapse is the use of multiple photographs, seperated in time, of the same object; to show changes in the object. The ones most of us are familiar with are series (often in films) of plants growing, or butterflies emerging.
Reader comment:
Wow! Clearly, Spain was the place to be if you wanted to see this solar eclipse in its maximum beauty.
Boing Boing reader Enrique in Madrid shot the photo here and below, and says,
Just to show you it was an amazingly common effect during the eclipse I posted some pics. And just another photographic comment: its true that it is not a time-lapse photo, but anyway the shutter speed could not be very fast… there´s not much light during an eclipse!!. (anyway no problem with the breeze, there wasn´t any at the moment).
