Brian Lavall Photography

The moment of totality over Northwest Maine during the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse across North America. Totality is a surreal experience. Anyone who has experienced it will tell you the photographs don't do it justice.

During totality, the moon covers 100% of the sun, allowing us to see the sun's atmosphere, which appears as a glowing ring in the sky. From our vantage point, we were able to look out over the mountains and valley to see the edge of the shadow, appearing as a 360 degree sunset around us. Venus, seen below the sun and moon, and Jupiter (out of frame) were also visible during the two and a half minutes we were in the shadow.

Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Brian Lavall Photography website. This is the first major update to my site since 2019, and is a ground-up rebuild as a modern web application.

The biggest change in this first iteration of the new site is the new blog, which is designed as a microblog similar to a social media feed. I'm excited to use this new setup to more frequently share short form posts and photo sets, in addition to the occasional full-length photo stories I wrote for my old site.

The new design is a bit bare bones to start, but will continue to evolve over the next few months. For now, I'm excited to launch and resume sharing the many new photographs I've made over the last couple of years.

Thanks for reading and supporting my art, and enjoy the photos.

Taken April 2022 on a roll of Kodak Gold in Pawtucket and Providence.