I'm in North Carolina, and about 200 miles away from the path of totality for todays solar eclipse. The forecasts for anything reasonably close to me were partly cloudy at best, so I didn't even make the attempt at going.

But I woke up from the night shift about 2:45 pm this afternoon, and I was startled for a bit about how dark it was. "Jeez, it must be a hell of a thundercloud to make it this dark... HOLY CARP, THE ECLIPSE!"

I ran outside to a mostly sunny day (here) but the light had a weird quality, as if it was a bright artificial light instead of sunshine. I ran back inside to grab my binoculars and phone, projected the images onto the hood of my white car and posted a pic here for your amusement.

Well, darn, I can't get "Attach files" to do anything, and there isn't any "Formatting help" button any more, but here's a url on the web.

https://i.imgtc.com/iSJCXZK.jpg

There wasn't really any eclipse here because it was cloudy, but I took a picture out of the office window at the point when the sun would have been obscured the most. And it was a very unusual sight since normally there are no people out on the street in this district of Columbus...

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These are pictures from my work we took during the Solar Eclipse:

https://burst.shopify.com/tags/solar-eclipse

Here's one where you can see me:

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But yea! The thing I noticed the most was like you said, an artificial lighting. It was almost like everything was more gray, or the dynamic range had been reduced (lighter darks, darker lights), but different than anything else I had seen. Was pretty neat

I didn't bother with it. The moon passing between the earth and sun to block the light for a few minutes. Nothing impressive to me since, with my size, I can achieve the same effect simply by getting between my wife and a lamp. No worry about damaging my eyes either.

Having an H-Aplha solar filter and not having the chance to use it

Not the best ever, but its somethin'.

Original unfiltered image :
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With levels adjusted :
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Those pictures make me wonder why the sun and moon have the exact same size...

Great shots Edgar!

No dice.

Wow! Your friend Andrew took some great pictures!

You can't do this with your shadow Specter (the effect with the trees, not just standing there):

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Specter, your shadow is a mere ghost of its former self.

:/