ALT Me, in front of a Eurorack modular synthesizer with multi-colored cables and flashing lights. My hair and beard are disheveled with patch cables running over my ear and through my mouth.

ALT Photo of leaf-less trees silhouetted against the sky transitioning from dark blue at the top to light blue to light orange near the ground. The Sun is seen as a complete circle in the upper left. Subsequent images of the Sun with larger and larger chunks taken out by the Moon eclipsing it appear moving down and to the right, until the Sun is seen at totality appearing as a white ring around a black circle. Continuing down and to the right the Sun is seen with smaller and smaller chunk taken out as the the eclipse ends.

ALT Photo of a projection of the partially eclipsed Sun onto corrugated cardboard.

ALT Photo of the partially eclipsed Sun with some visible sunspots.

ALT Photo the partially eclipsed Sun behind clouds with some visible sunspots.

ALT Photo of the fully eclipsed Sun with the solar corona and some solar prominences visible.

ALT Closeup of a the face of a bearded man with images of the partially eclipsed Sun overlaid on top of his eyes. Large text reads "Bureau of Veil Management".

ALT Photo the Sun partially eclipsed by the Moon before annularity with just a crescent of the lower left of the Sun visible. Wispy clouds are visible in front of the Sun.

ALT Photo the Sun partially eclipsed by the Moon after annularity with just a crescent of the upper right of the Sun visible. Wispy clouds are visible in front of the Sun.

ALT Wide-angle photo of a cloud filled sky above hills. The Sun is not visible through the clouds.

ALT Turkey Vulture in flight with wings extended against a cloudless blue sky.

ALT Great Blue Heron on rocks surrounded by tall grasses on the bank of a river with its wings up about to take flight with a bonus dragonfly hovering above.

ALT Great Egret taking off from a weathered metal wheel against a backdrop of blue water.

ALT An orange sky just after sunset with a telephone pole and numerous power lines silhouetted. A plane can be seen in the distance between two of the power lines while a car drives across a bridge in the foreground.

ALT Landscape with a golden brown field in front of a lush green field in front of hills spotted with trees.

ALT A small group of trees on a hill with one dead tree above the others with a small bird perched on top of it.

ALT A red-tailed hawk in flight against a blue sky with wispy clouds.

ALT A rock covered in bright yellow-orange lichen with rolling hills and a cloudy sky out of focus in the background.

ALT Golden brown grasses in front of out of focus pink water with hills and sky in the distance.

ALT The sun shining in a blue sky spotted with clouds over green and brown brush.

ALT A California Gull in flight against a blue sky.

ALT The sky immediately after sunset with a river flowing past a dock with a couple sitting on it and several silhouetted birds in flight.

ALT Screenshot of Planit Pro showing the Moon's predicted position at moonrise on August 30th.

ALT Photo from the planned location taken on August 28th with Lick Observatory visible on top of Mount Hamilton.

ALT Photo from the same location on August 30th with the mountains and Lick Observatory almost completely obscured by smoke.

ALT The silhouette of Lick Observatory in front of the rising full moon glowing yellow-orange on August 30th.

ALT A wooden boardwalk stretching over low brush and shallow water at the edge of the Bay with hills in the distance and clouds above.

ALT A double rainbow over a solitary building in a cloud filled sky with hills in the distance and low brush in the foreground.

ALT The orange-red sky at sunset with shallow water and two pieces of heavy construction equipment silhouetted.

ALT Two Canada Geese and a few smaller birds silhouetted in shallow water reflecting an orange-red sunset.