Sun pictures are not always simple circles. Back in 2017, my youngest daughter and I went on a backpacking trip that started during an eclipse. The above photo shows the ground shadows in the parking lot near the start of the eclipse. If one wasn’t paying attention, one might not realize how weird they look. […]
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Shadows in the low sun can be amusing. In our shadows, our legs seem to take up most of our bodies, like we are a circus performer on stilts, and our head shrinks to a point. We become pinheads. In fact, the shadows of our legs look a bit like the parallel railroad tracks that
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Shadows on sunny days are everywhere, yet rarely given much thought. Minnaert* makes some interesting observations about shadows that you can readily make yourself, particularly when the sun is low in the sky. Consider shadows from fences, particularly the types made with thick wires running in two directions. Chain-link fences are a common example, and
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