An AP photographer explains how he captured the moment of eclipse totality

Photographer Mat Otero works for The Associated Press in Dallas, Texas, just inside the path of totality for this week's solar eclipse. He created a solar filter and brought three cameras to the Dallas Zoo for the big event. Clouds rolled in. He thought he’d be skunked. Then, for just a few minutes, they parted during totality. Laying on his back with a tripod, he made a spectacular photo, showing the reddish trails of plasma looping off the sun’s surface. The image captured a fraction of a second in time, but Otero says he felt like it was a secret look into the cosmos.