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The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope imaged the event just as the Sun is rising from the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.

Space.com reports:
One of the rarest observable astronomy events took place today as Venus crossed the face of the Sun for the first time in 122 years.

The spectacle was visible from all of Europe and much of Asia and Africa. Some eastern residents of North America had a chance to see the final moments of the transit, which ended around 7:25 a.m. ET. Images and video of the transit, from telescopes small and large, were posted live on the Internet at several sites around the world.

Venus transits the face of the Sun on a strange schedule. The last one was in 1882 but the next one comes fairly soon, on June 6, 2012.