Part way through scanning more negatives on Friday night the lights went out, there was a power cut caused by high winds. Sort of apt that the the stuff being scanned was taken when the Sun went out during a visit to France to experience the eclipse in 1999.
Here are some people on a French camp site.
The eclipse starting.
Eclipse specs used as a filter held over the lens show the first nibble of the Moon of the Sun.
It rapidly started to get very cool and gloomy. Most eerie.
Houses in semi-darkness.
And with more people, all here for L'eclipse
And then this not posed at all picture...
Makes me think of this viewing of a nuclear test.
The view from the tent.
From left to right: Water, eclipse specs, shoes, vat of wine, beer, soup, cheese, baguette.
Under the camera: Croissant crumbs, pain au chocolat crumbs, spider legs, a sock.
We were camping in Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis, a short bus ride away from Rouen. And how delightful is Rouen? Absolument, bien sûr. The camp site was rammed with barely room to jab a tent peg right up until the moment immediately after the eclipse.
Obviously somewhere as lovely as Rouen was the perfect place to burn people to death during the middle ages. The images of torture depicted in the stained glass in the Church of Joan of Arc are pretty gruesome. The Maid of Orleans was burned on a site just next to where the church with her name now stands.
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