xvcoffee, We got about 65% coverage here... enough to show a major bite taken out of the sun, but the wolf spit it back out again. Camera lenses don't work that well against a white wall. Bird-watching glasses gave a nice sharp projection. My little KGB spy-rated "theatre glasses" gave the crispest image (got to love Soviet optics!). Holding a straw hat against the wall gave thousands of tiny eclisped suns. Neat! Oh, with the glasses, point the coated side toward the sun and the eyepiece side toward the wall. If you are going to photograph it, use a tripod or something to hold the glasses. Pat, Hope that you and Richard got a nice view of it. There is a funny feeling of community knowing that all over the Bay Area thousands of people were gathering sunlight at the same time. Hogwarden, Cold light is right. Even at 65% it felt noticeably cooler and weirder. Quite literally touched by a shadow. I've seen two solar eclipses that were much better, and an incredible lunar eclipse when the moon went blood red, and we all knew that the beauty was at the cost of the trees in the Stanislaus. There were hundreds of us up in Tuolumne Meadows watching that one... and mourning. Pamola, Gee, Kupa asked me that question just a couple of weeks ago. (It was a social visit, so I wasn't carrying my full kit of published work.) It has been more than a decade since I have done a piece of art just for myself (a situation which will be remedied this summer). Everything I do is for some publisher or another. If you've ever hung around chat areas such as WorldsAway, the odds are good that you've worn one of my faces. If you've played computer games (adventure, RPG, classic, puzzle), you may have killed my monsters or cursed my puzzles or gotten lost in one of my little traps. Since I don't own the art, it can only go up in a portfolio section on my own website... which isn't built yet. (You know about the cobbler's children going barefoot?) Someday, and soon! Carolly