Ecliptic Visions—with Rebecca Boyle, Gabriel Biderman, Atlas Obscura & B&H
B&H Photography Podcast
Jill Waterman
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Where will you be on April 8, 2024? If you don’t already know, you’d better figure it out fast, particularly if you’ve got an interest in observing—and ideally photographing—the awe-inspiring phenomenon of a total solar eclipse.
To get you up to speed on essential eclipse details, tune in to our chat with science writer Rebecca Boyle and Gabriel Biderman from B&H’s Road Marketing team. Boyle shares tidbits about Earth’s silvery sister gleaned from research for her book Our Moon, while Gabe discusses preparations (and practice!) for your eclipse photo session, plus strategies for juggling multiple set-ups.
To celebrate the total eclipse back in 2017, B&H teamed up with Atlas Obscura for a two-day festival in Eastern Oregon’s Snake River Valley. This year, the party’s expanding from two to four days! We end the episode with details about the 2024 Ecliptic Festival, held alongside the Valley of Vapors music festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas, smack in the Eclipse’s umbra.
Immerse yourself in this rare astronomical occurrence while rubbing shoulders with celebrated scientists, legendary musicians, artists and photographers galore, plus benefit from dedicated space—and tools—for star gazing and tracking the path to totality and back. The sky’s the limit!
Guests: Rebecca Boyle & Gabriel Biderman
Top shot © Gabriel Biderman
For more information on our guests and the gear they use, see:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/ecliptic-visions-with-rebecca-boyle-gabriel-biderman-atlas-obscura-bh
Stay Connected:
Atlas Obscura Ecliptic Festival: https://ecliptic.atlasobscura.com/
Atlas Obscura Website: https://www.atlasobscura.com/
Rebecca Boyle Website: https://rebeccaboyle.com/
Rebecca Boyle Our Moon book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468/our-moon-by-rebecca-boyle/
Rebecca Boyle’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/by.rebecca.boyle/
Rebecca Boyle’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rboyle31
Rebecca Boyle’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rboyle31/
Gabriel Biderman’s Website: https://www.ruinism.com/
National Parks at Night Website: https://www.nationalparksatnight.com/
National Parks at Night’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nationalparksatnight/
National Parks at Night’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/natlpksatnight
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week's episode is sponsored by Panasonic. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to the B&H Photography podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | For 50 years, P&H has been the professional source for photography, video, audio, and more. |
| 0:12.8 | For your favorite gear and news and reviews, |
| 0:14.9 | visit us at BNH.com, or download the B&H app |
| 0:18.4 | to your iPhone or Android device. |
| 0:20.5 | Now here's your host, Alan Whites. |
| 0:23.0 | Greetings and welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | My name is Alan Whites. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm Jill Waterman. |
| 0:30.0 | And our audio engineer Mike Weinstein will no doubt be jumping with a question or two along the way. |
| 0:36.0 | Where will you be on April 8th, 2024? |
| 0:40.0 | Not sure? Well, you better start figuring it out fast because on April 8th there's going to be a gang-buster total solar eclipse that will temporarily turn broad daylight into an otherworldly spectacle across a wide swath of the US, Mexico, and Canada. |
| 0:57.0 | Making landfall around 11 a.m. Pacific time near Masatlan, Mexico, the path of the eclipse will travel across all 48 states |
| 1:06.4 | and eastern Canada before passing on into the North Atlantic from Newfoundland shortly after 5 p.m. |
| 1:12.4 | a local time. but the real show is |
| 1:14.8 | reserved for people who live within or plan on visiting people who live within the |
| 1:19.1 | path of totality which will turn parts of 15 states from Texas to Maine into a profoundly mystical |
| 1:26.7 | experience. As Pablo Fanker once said, a splendid time is guaranteed for all. |
| 1:32.4 | Back in 2017, being a A splendid time is guaranteed for all. |
| 1:33.0 | Back in 2017, B&A celebrated the Total Eclipse |
| 1:36.5 | by participating in a two-day festival organized by the online community, Atlas Obscura, |
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