Nearing sunset718 viewsThe foreground trees show up a little better in this shot.
About 4 minutes from Second Contact717 viewsThe Moon is rapidly overtaking the Sun.
The Sun sets in the weeds717 viewsThe still-partially-eclipsed sun is being increasingly obscured by tree branches on a distant hillside - but they look more like weeds in this view.
Pre-Totality 4717 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change
A few minutes after First Contact715 viewsThe Moon is nibbling on the Sun.
Maximum Totality712 viewsWith a glorious corona.
Maximum Annularity712 viewsThis was the closest I could get to maximum annularity, when the outer edge of the Moon's disk is equidistant at all points from the edge of the Sun.