SYZYGIES (™)
THREE ECLIPSES
The 2017 Great American Eclipse
The 2019 Chilean Sunset Eclipse
The 2023 Australian Hybrid Eclipse
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a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were alignedin syzygy"
About the book.
Syzygies is the plural form of the word SYZYGY. A Syzygy is a nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system, such as the alignment of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth during a solar eclipse.
Brittany Lunsford Kurz and I started working on this book in late 2015. I had just returned from a trip to Jackson, WY. During that trip I learned that a total solar eclipse would be occurring over my home in Jackson in August 2017. We immediately started preparing to shoot the eclipse, and in this book, you will see the amazing results we achieved. The shoot and the book would not have happened without Brittany. Those simple facts created two umbraphiles. Umbraphiles are individuals who pursue the observation of eclipses wherever they occur around the world.
Since the 2017 Great American Eclipse, we have made plans to see five eclipses. We were prevented from seeing the 2020 South American and 2021 Greenland eclipses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We shot the eclipses, however, in Chile in 2019 and Australia in 2023. SYZYGIES is a collection of three eclipses, a section dedicated to teaching individuals on how to photograph an eclipse, and the metadata of all the eclipse images contained in the book. We only included four pictures of the annular eclipse in 2023 at the time of publication. That event and the next American eclipse of 2024, the 2026 eclipse in Spain, and the 2027 eclipse in Egypt are planned to be included in our next book on eclipses.
~Glenn Sturm
In 2023, Mr. Sturm published his first book, an Amazon Best Seller, Cancer Set Me Free.
About the authors:
Glenn W Sturm earned a Juris Doctor, with honors, from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, where he was named to the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as a fellowship instructor of legal research and writing and as executive managing editor of the Florida International Law Journal. Mr. Sturm also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Florida, where he taught Corporate Finance to law and MBA students. Mr. Sturm served in the U.S. military as a commissioned officer on active duty and in the reserves for well over 30 years. Mr. Sturm practiced law for several decades and served on his firm’s board and as its Corporate Chairman for most of his legal career. Mr. Sturm also had a successful business career. He founded Netzee Inc., an Internet banking company that he took public in 1999 as its CEO. He also served on the corporate boards of directors, including InterCept Inc. (ICPT), Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. (GFSI), and WebMD Inc. (WBMD).
In his other lives, Sturm is a photographic artist and a philanthropist and strives every day to make the lives of others better while continuing to navigate his way through over a decade and a half of life with cancer.
Brittany Lunsford Kurz is a lifelong photographer and artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Georgia State University, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2006. Since 2001, she has worked professionally in photography, first as a photographer and later as a post-production artist, specializing in restoration and fine art reproduction. Brittany is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and a parent of two beautiful daughters.