Solar eclipse. The whole company (all eight of us who were in the office at the time) went out to St. Eriksbron to watch it.

It was all a bit underwhelming. The sky was overcast so the sun was barely visible. The eclipse was partial and honestly I didn’t think it got that much darker, even. So maybe it was like late afternoon instead of midday… Not at all as dark as in this photo; I had to underexpose this a lot to keep the sun from being a bright blob.

Another reason why I wasn’t too impressed was that I have actually seen a full eclipse, and that actually felt like a proper eclipse. Darkness in the middle of the day, stars visible in a clear sky, birds all falling quiet – the real deal. I remember watching the eclipse through sooted glass.

That was the eclipse of 1990. I lived in Estonia at the time, and the full eclipse was visible in just a tiny corner of Estonia. How lucky for us that this tiny bit of the eclipse touched the mainland! It doesn’t look like I will get another chance during my lifetime, unless we move, or travel somewhere to catch a future eclipse.