Location: K-Mart parking lot in the west end of Alliance Nebraskabr/Time and date: 2017-08-21 1755UTbr/Equipment and settings: Canon 60Da at ISO200 with Canon 70-300 f/4-5.6 lens at f/8, tripod mounted, various exposuresbr/Planning: I knew from past experience that there is the likelihood of spending the whole eclipse looking through the viewfinder of the camera rather than enjoying the eclipse so I determined to have the photography make as little impact as possible. As we were camping we also had little room for large amounts of equipment. Hence the decision to go tripod mounted and use a camera lens rather than telescope. I made a small solar filter for the lens to use during partial phases. The plan was: immediately before totality set the camera to 1/1000s exposure and frame the sun. Then without looking at the camera again and while watching all the eclipse events I could remember (approaching shadow, temperature change, bird songhellip;) I would shoot three exposures quickly, increase the exposure 1 stop, shoot three more exposures etc until the longest exposures were 1s (the maximum I wanted to use to ensure minimal trailing of the Sun during the exposure) then work my way back down in the same manner to 1/125s. Images subsequently would be manually aligned and stacked in Photoshop CS4. The plan worked almost flawlessly.br/Problems: the Sun continued its diurnal motion throughout the period of totality, moving further than I had expected and the west extensions of the solar corona were perilously close to the right edge of the frame.br/Ambience: It was a very quiet crowd ndash; very little of the loud hooting and cheering that I have heard on eclipse videos, it was rather a quiet overwhelmed hush of respectful awe. Following totality I was so affected that I had to sit for 15 minutes to recover my equanimity before I felt capable of driving.