The Great American Eclipse | Presque Isle State Park

Seeing totality is easily among the top 3 best moments of my life! This was taken in Erie, Pennsylvania at the Presque Isle State Park, part of a peninsula in Lake Erie. In the time leading up to totality, the temperature dropped by 10ºF per half hour, and the landscape colors started to grayscale. The sun was too bright to look at with the naked eye at every moment except full totality, but I used my Ice ND100000 16.5 stop ND filter to film the solar phases.
When totality hit, the world felt alien. It was like nighttime; the street lights came on, and I threw on a coat, despite the sunlit daytime high in the mid 70s. Pink prominences of superheated plasma many times bigger than Earth peek out into the sun's corona, which are invisible to human eyes except during totality.
I looked forward to this event for 7 years, since the August 21, 2017 eclipse that I saw in partiality from Philly. I briefly mentioned both eclipses in my "Trainwizard 101 | Phillyhenge" video two years back. In 2020 I got the ND filter. In 2022 I prepared the music. I'm so glad this came together so well, and with the accommodation of a few friends, I was able to go see it! Shoutout to ‪@mcmmtransitproductions‬ and ‪@Frances_Network_Production‬ and chauffeur ‪@OldsVistaCruiser‬ who experienced totality with me on this day. Would you believe it RAINED over this part of PA just one hour before this happened?

[@Neillan]

So happy you got to catch this Micheal. Me and my family went to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio and it was one of the best spots in the country to see it. Low cloud cover, not super crowded and the nice family next to us even let us use their high end telescope! That flash at the end as the sunlight comes back through after totality is my favorite part, and it's no wonder so many consider this a spiritual event! Core memory achieved haha, I'm still in nirvana about the whole experience!

[@Trainwizard]

Thank you! The diamond ring was my favorite part, too. It did something to my emotions that not much else could ever match.