The entire premise of our recent road trip around New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma was to end up somewhere along the line of totality where we would get the least cloud cover and hopefully some good foreground elements since the sun would be nearly at zenith. With the ever changing forecasts, our original idea of southern Texas somewhere between Uvalde and Lost Maples was quickly dashed and we started scouting in a zigzag along maximum totality heading northeast every day. As the day approached we decided our best bet would be in southern Oklahoma around the Broken Lake area, and if on the morning of the event we saw it would be completely clouded over we would still be able to drive a few hours northeast to Arkansas which seemed to have the best chance to near zero cloud cover.
Here is the time-lapse video from a GoPro Hero4 Silver I set up at Broken Bow Lake at Sunrise Point in Oklahoma, USA. The footage is derived and trimmed from the 5995 still shots taken once a second before, during, and after totality. There is a lot of foreground so you can see the movement of people along the shoreline, the waves and boats on the water, and the clouds changing. There was a point before totality when I thought we would have too heavy of cloud cover to observe totality, but it all ended up working out in the end.
Video and Editing: Timothy Dahlum
Music: I Will Not Return, Alex Mason/The Minor Emotion, Soul Breaker Album, Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC
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Timothy Dahlum 