We started this trip with the idea of observing and photographing the eclipse from a nature preserve, or at least somewhere with a lot of birds. The weather patterns kept changing and where we thought we’d end up, far southern Texas near the Rio Grande, ended up changing throughout the week and we zigzagged our way north while scouting for prime spots. We ended up at Eclipse at Broken Bow Lake, Beavers Bend State Park, Oklahoma, and then thought we’d never see the sun during totality as thick clouds started obscuring the sun for a large portion of the morning. Luckily it all broke in time to watch more than an hour of the early stages of occlusion through totality and exiting occlusion.
There’s a Timelapse on the GoPro waiting to have the thousands of stills edited in to a final video. But I also took several vertical panoramas on my iPhone, of which this was the best during totality.
Timothy Dahlum 