Photo by #CanonExplorerOfLight davidhumekennerly | "I’ve photographed a lot of extraordinary things in my career, but the total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017 is definitely in my top five! The trick was to be in the middle of the path of totality, and out of the way of the clouds. I chose Monmouth, Oregon in the Willamette Valley to take the shot, and it paid off. During a total solar eclipse, the moon passes between earth and the sun, blocking out the sun’s light. At that moment the white corona, which is the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere, can clearly be seen surrounding the eclipsed sun. It was a spectacular sight. A bonus was to also document a solar prominence on the top and right side of the sun. A prominence is a bright, fiery, gaseous event that emanates from the sun’s surface, often in the shape of a loop. A typical prominence can extend more than 62,000 miles from the sun’s surface, and is ten times the size of earth. Some reach more than 300,000 miles into spac...