Magnificent sunbeam: Winter sun

This season is not the most attractive for a photographer in my zone. Colours are washed out, gray cloud cover dominates the sky and there is snow everywhere. Fortunately when the sun is shining, all the sunbeams are those golden, magical types; these can turn a boring Sunday afternoon into a great time to shoot landscape. This is exactly what happened to me a few weeks ago! Low flying clouds made that afternoon even more exciting, because sun rays painted them with phenomenal colours. Let's see the result!

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Camera: Sony Alpha Nex-5N
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm

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