The Story Behind "The Morning of the Crescent Sun"
One year ago today: the sunrise solar eclipse of 2025 from Point Judith. Five or six years ago, when I started planning for the 2024 total solar eclipse, I also learned that the Northeast of North America was going to experience a partial solar eclipse during sunrise on March 29, 2025. I added it to my calendar, knowing that this was likely a once-in-a-lifetime chance to capture a “Crescent Sunrise” here in Rhode Island.
When the last week of March came last year, the weather forecast for Saturday morning was less than promising. The night before, it looked like clouds would be covering the entire Northeast. But I knew I had to try anyways.
At 4 a.m., I woke up and got ready. When I left my house at 5 a.m., it was raining. But as I made my way down Route 4 from the city towards the coast, dawn just starting to illuminate the early morning sky, I noticed a handful of patches in the clouds. Maybe this would actually happen?
I arrived at Point Judith a few minutes before the 6:33 a.m. sunrise to mostly clouds. As I started to set up my gear and the sky continued to brighten, rays of sunlight began to appear through a few gaps in the clouds. But would the sun actually line up?
At 6:48 a.m., I got my answer. The sun started to peek out. For four minutes, the sun and the partial eclipse were visible in a tiny gap in the clouds right above the lighthouse. Four minutes to capture the shot of a lifetime.
