12/08/2026
🌒 The eclipse from Primrose Hill.
Someone walked into my shot at exactly the right moment. They raised their hands and, from where I was standing, it looked as though they were making dua beneath the eclipse. Completely unplanned, caught in that quiet stretch of dusk just before Maghrib, when the daylight was already beginning to surrender to the evening.
Photography doesn’t always show the world exactly as our eyes see it.
The clean, dark image is probably the truest representation of what we actually saw through the eclipse glasses. We were joking about how comical the Sun looked; this tiny glowing crescent floating in complete darkness, almost like a little Moon alchemy symbol ☾ rather than the Sun.
The other photographs are more expressive. Closing the aperture down breaks the light into those distinctive star shaped rays, revealing the shape of the aperture itself, while the tree line remains faintly visible below.
One eclipse; several ways of seeing it.
📍 Primrose Hill, London
📷 Sony A7R V
