The sky turned orange and the sun was reduced to a line of fire. At that very moment, a young man knelt in front of Val Thorens, his skier girlfriend, with a ring in his hand and the eclipse as witness.
The silhouette of the two of them, outlined against that glow, looks like something from another era: her hands on her chest, him on his knees, and between them the sun turned into a crescent of light. Photographer Aurel Dreww captured the exact moment when the universe seemed to agree with his plans.
The original post, in French and English, said that there are moments you only experience once. And rarely has that phrase fit an image so well: an eclipse that lasts minutes and a decision that lasts a lifetime, coinciding in the exact same second.