Say that we are before the most spectacular photograph in history It is not something that is said every day. And if we check which photo is receiving this honor, perhaps we can better understand why it is being named that way.
The image itself was made during the total solar eclipse in August 2017. It was photographer Jon Carmichael the one who has the honor of taking such a photo that is now being called "the most spectacular photograph in history."
Carmichael was devising how he could capture a total eclipse in a unique way. Just combining his greatest passions such as photography, astronomy and flight. The photograph includes a wide panoramic view of part of the globe and that special moment in which the total solar eclipse that occurred in August 2017 is recorded.
His idea reached the study the eclipse path with great care, until he realized that Southwest Airlines had a flight from Portland to St. Lous that would put him in the best position to be able to witness the event.
For this reserved a seat on the plane in order to take the best possible picture. Best of all, it was the flight captain himself who cleaned his glass window so that the capture was the cleanest.
Came to take 1.200 photos in two minutes and he came to collect that perfect moment in which the phenomenon is reproduced when the Moon hides the Sun. An image that has been called by Inc. as the most exciting photograph in history, although all those images would have to be thoroughly reviewed that are part of our visual memory of this and the last century.
Finally, Carmichael has spent a year processing the images in a gigantic mosaic of photographs called 108. You can pass for its website to purchase some of the limited editions.
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