Lemme just address some misconceptions in here:
"ECLIPSE WILL BLIND U" - No, staring at the sun will blind you. During the eclipse, you're simply more likely to ignore reason and stare at the sun. Emphasis on *STARE*, not glance. If your eyes aren't stationary on the sun throughout the whole transition, the risk is pretty marginal. The greatest risk is at the *end* of totality, when the light intensity peaks again on the other side of the eclipse; if your eyes have dilated for the darkness of the total eclipse, that's not great for you.
Now, as far as CAMERAS go, theres a lot of myth rooted in sheer gearfaggotry. You do not need a solar filter for your camera if you're using caution. The reason for the misconception is that A) gearfags love events that encourage them to bust out their tripod
B) looking through the OVF of an SLR attached to a telephoto lens aimed at the sun *IS* fucking awful for your eyes, so solar filters are the norm when shooting eclipses with SLR cameras, which was the norm for most of the history of people being able to photograph the eclipse. C) the risk to your sensor from the sun works exactly the same as the risk to your eye; it's about how stationary the point of light is. Since the aforementioned gearfags like to set their cameras up on tripods for the eclipse, they are also putting their cameras at extra risk of damage by not minimizing the time the sun spends focused on the sensor.
In other words: if you want to shoot the eclipse with an SLR, use a solar filter. If you want to shoot the eclipse from a tripod, use a solar filter. If you want to shoot a timelapse of it, use a solar filter.
If you want to take pictures like the one in OP, you don't need a solar filter. If someone insists to you that you do, you can disprove them with this one simple trick: take a picture of the sun on any other day.
