Watch a total Lunar Eclipse

It was so orange and Perrtyful. I didn’t think it would look like that.

Half a year after the last total lunar eclipse, the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon meet again. And Seattle again was benevolent with its weather and partial clouds. Just before totality, the Moon rose above the horizon clouds. What a splendid view! These spectacles always awe me.

Contemplating a lunar eclipse is literarily out of this world ;) And making a little collage about it is phenomenal:

This is my third time I’ve watched a lunar eclipse, but it’s my first time that I follow it more closely while photographing it. Just before totality, the moon appeared to be a red balloon hanging from the sky; it also seemed quite smaller compared to its uneclipsed form. Unfortunately, tiredness and my soporific state prevented me from watching the whole length of the eclipse back to a bright full moon, yet the most part that I witnessed was a surreal experience —a yin version of a solar eclipse.

The subtleness and length of the eclipse permitted to appreciate different aspects of it. At times, the event absorbed me into almost an hypnotic state that I began divagating… the space and distance between us became variable… seeing the textures, and the lights, and the shadows… and then the awareness of the masses of the bodies of the Earth, and the Moon, and the Sun, and the event we were witnessing… It was beyond comprehension… so surreal…

didn’t expect it to be quite so orange!