My photographs were taken on the countryside outside 

Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico on a sunny and hot day.

I used a Nikkor 300mm zoom telephoto on my Nikon,

a tripod, a IF shutter trigger and a Meade solar filter sheet,

adapted to a simple UV filter.

I pretty much cut a circle of the 58mm diameter of the filter (less actually),

and removed the cap that holds the glass in place,

placed the solar filter circle on it and put the cap back on

to hold it up, behind the UV filter glass.

 

Then it was just pointing at the Sun and having fun.

I am so glad I witnessed it because it will only happen again

on my next life...

We stayed until the light was no longer producing good photos with

the filter and the clouds started to show up.

So here they are.

There are a lot of them and it took me forever to process them

in Lightroom (I shoot in RAW).

You can see them all in my Picasa Album or my Facebook Album.

 The setting.

It was awesome!

I was trying the new video editing inside Photoshop CS6
and I needed a subject, so I chose to use the photos
I took of the Transit of Venus.
I am a noob when it comes to making
slideshow video but I wanted to try it out.

A couple of friends asked me to put together some resources 
about the Transit of Venus...
So,
I have decided to make a post about everything I have found to be useful
on the Transit of Venus that will happen on June 5 and 6.

You can check where the planets are at this very moment,

 On June 5 and 6 Venus will pass between us and the Sun.
This is the last time it will happen in the 21th century.
The next time Venus passes in front of the Sun will be in 2117.

In our life time we had the chance to see it in 2004 and we can still catch it tomorrow!