Burning Man meets Mad Max: solar eclipse hunters gather in Australia for ‘otherwordly’ event

The sky dimmed, shadows sharpened, temperatures dropped and the crowd hushed as the moon totally eclipsed the sun in Exmouth, Western Australia, on Thursday.

As the sun’s outer corona of light wrapped around the moon with flares of red and white, photographer Trent Mitchell felt like he was in “this path of alignment”.

“Looking up at the sun and the moon combined … it was like nothing else I’ve ever experienced,” he said. “It was otherworldly.”

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