As a resident of suburb Portland Oregon, I was able to experience the total solar eclipse today.
My iphone couldn't handle a picture of partial eclipse, the bright sun appears round through my camera, although this picture was around 95% coverage, you can see the darker sky, and sunset like effect on the horizon.
butt check these crescent shaped shadows I noticed before totality.
The sun beaming through my trees was only able to produce partial shadows due to the majority of the sun being covered by the moon.
Pictures (especially mine) and video do no justice to what is actually experienced. The eerie feeling as full darkness comes on extremely quick, within seconds, the suns' corona shining behind the moon while creating odd quick moving shadows all over the ground, and a 360 degree sunrise/sunset.
Some dimming of daylight starts much earlier than total coverage, but not normal evening or morning type dimming, it is very hard to explain. Kind of like some small budget black and white movies trying to portray night time, but you can tell were filmed during the day with a camera filter.... 'tis quite surreal.
-Greg
