Quest for the magnificent light

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

Welcome to the blog of Lightbeam Photography ! Let me introduce myself first. My name is Mark Szabo; I am an enthusiastic amateur photographer from Hungary. Winter is pretty gray and snowy, so I decided to realise my old plan and launch a blog about photography in the mean time. Besides showing some of my photos I am going to write thematic series about gear and techniques. Just the first few ideas I have: Magnificent sunbeam : All about sunset and sunrise; the themes I really love! Manual beauties : Showcasing the capabilities of great manual focus lenses on digital bodies. The magic of film : Film is still alive! I am really looking forward to Your comments, opinions and suggestions; but please keep the blog clean from off topic talk. Now let's kick it off with a picture called Eye of the Storm! Eye of the Storm Metadata  Camera: Sony Alpha Nex-5N Lens: Sony 18-55mm OSS