This is not a staged picture – the girl isn't posing – nor a fabrication, and the photographer nearly improvised the shot, as he, too, was in complete awe at the sight of totality. It's two photos stitched together: one captured during totality – top – and then a second one pointing at the landscape, taken exactly during the diamond ring effect as the Sun started to reappear, which adds the nice highlights to the image, giving also the image an enormous dynamic range. Here's the story (takes about 2 minutes to read): http://www.deepskycolors.com/The_Great_Gig_in_the_Sky.html