Solar pillar

Solar pillar(1): see the Sun, there? No you don't. This photo was taken 4 minutes *before* sunrise and 10 minutes before the sun first peeped over the hills. 1/40 +/- 2 stops HDR • f/8 • 35 mm • ISO 100 Canon EOS 6D EF35mm f/1.4L II USM SunPillar2 06 30 06 hdr dpp

This morning's "solar pillar" - light reflected from flat, horizontal, hexagonal ice crystals (only reflected light from crystals directly above the Sun reaches the eye thus giving the pillar effect). 1/400 +/- 2 stops HDR • f/8 • 135 mm • ISO 100 Canon EOS 6D EF135mm f/2L USM SunPillar 06 44 12 hdr dpp

Solar pillar (3): 13 minutes after sunrise. 1/500 +/- 2 stops HDR • f/8 • 135 mm • ISO 100 Canon EOS 6D EF135mm f/2L USM — at Weymouth Beach. SunPillar 06 47 43 hdr dpp