I Avenged 1999: Photographing Cornwall’s 95% Solar Eclipse

At Wheal Uny, the evening did not suddenly become night.

Instead, the light became wrong.

The sky remained blue, the Sun was still high above the western horizon and the landscape around me was clearly visible. Yet everything appeared subdued, as though an enormous pair of sunglasses had been placed over Cornwall.

After twenty-seven years, I was finally watching a solar eclipse beneath clear Cornish skies.