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‘None of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life’: Maurice Bakley’s best phone picture

‘None of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life’: Maurice Bakley’s best phone picture

An ​e​lementary school ​w​atch party turned into a great opportunity to take a child’s-eye view of a spectacular astral phenomenon

Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son’s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he took this photograph. As he had arrived early to fit his iPhone to a tripod to capture a time-lapse of the event (with the help of a monocular and a solar filter), he reached for his iPad for this shot.

“The boys in the photo, one of whom is my son, are part of a tight group of friends. They’ve known each other since kindergarten through their bilingual Spanish immersion school,” Bakley says. “They were eight and nine years old at the time, and none of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life.”

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An ​e​lementary school ​w​atch party turned into a great opportunity to take a child’s-eye view of a spectacular astral phenomenon Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son’s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he took this photograph. “They were eight and nine years old at the time, and none of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life.

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