Solar eclipse, well almost for us.

Not wishing to blow money on fuel or be subjected to the predicted traffic heading north to the total zone I stayed home and just made a study of the lighting effects in our partial ~97% zone.
All the camera settings were a 1/400th and F4.5, it doesn't happen very often but sometimes there's a reason to use the manual setting on a camera, and it certainly wasn't to make these shots look nicer, that's why camera makers employ clever people to program them.

About as dark as we got, a very weird experience.

Lighter.

Almost over and now overexposing a bit.