current year May naturality in photography get a chance in 2008 again!

I love this shot! The glare from the sun is well-shown in this one. Very eye-catching! Good work!

As Joy said the sun glare stands out which is great and really makes an already impressive shot that bit more special!

Great work!

 

Steven W.

Well done, Daily. Nice composition and a magnificient landscape. I usually consider lens flare a mistake, but here, it is interesting, especially the part downwards from the sun. I guess it it is almost unavoidable when you have sun in the frame. I attach the flare itself, works for me as an abstract. Best wishes. Peter

Great shot, Daily; Nature is surely the master in spectacular effects and you captured it.

 

Tons of wishes to you and Andrea.

Daily, definitely magnificent shot, keep going to 2OO8, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Really beautiful work and a very nice title, D.P.!

HAVE A CLOSE LOOK TO THE FRAGMENT PETER EXTRACTED FROM THE PICTURE AND FIND OUT WHICH LENS WAS USED! (In front of the 1 Ds Mark II :-))

Daily, I like the landscape, and the flur adds to the beauty.as usual well done.

I don't mind which lens did it, I mind the result! ;-))

Pnina, you dont know the prize yet!

That string of flares is most lovely & strking against the cool snow landscape.

Daily, again your fine sense of humor :-)). I'll start, perhaps someone else will guess. Canon currently markets 66 lenses. You have a full frame sensor, so you do not use EF-S lenses. Number of aperture blades in your lens is 6. We are down to 10 lenses now. It is difficult to count the groups/elements from the flare - but I would guess it is 12, but I may be wrong. Assuming I am not - three lenses left. Now the hard part. Just guessing that this was not a wide angle shot. You needed an all-around lens not to carry a lot of heavy stuff with your 1.5 kg camera body in the mountains. So my guess is EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM**.

clever start! But why do you think that my lens park does consist exclusively of Canon lenses? And additionally a bad news: You could not know that this is a crop - from a wide angle shot!

 

:-))

excellent shot...the lens flare works well here...

Well :-( Next guess: Sigma 12-24 F4-5.6 EX DG Aspherical HSM ?

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Daily, it is clear from the photo of the sun that your lens aperture has 6 blades. You indicated a wide lens and not a Canon. Thus I looked at Tamron and Sigma lenses. Neither wide-angle Tamron has a 6-blade aperture. Then there are only four Sigma lenses with six-blade apertures. I excluded "10-20 f4 EX DC" because it is dedicated to small sensors. I also excluded "4.5 mm F2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye" and "8 mm F3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye", as I found the presented crop unlikely to be coming from a circular fisheye shot, so the only wide angle lens was my above guess... Oddly enough, it has 12 groups of optical elements... I was considering to buy this lens a few years ago, but finally decided for the Canon 17-40 f/4L. So now for a few days before you move on to another week and delete this post, your Equipment is not "Unknown" :-)) Thank you for the prize, I am very pleased to be able to remain a Photo.net subscriber for another year. Best wishes. Peter

(Looks like they became fast at Photo.net :-))

The cyber comet which guides the three Magi and their entourage over the Alps. I still remember some of your legendary photos from the same area. A mix of old memories. Best wishes for 2008. Karl

Excellent,giving and beautiful, you really bring us up to heaven,Best wishes for the new year for you and Andrea

Thank you, dont miss the slideshow!

 

:-))

Looked like year 2008 has a future for peace.

 

Amazing composition,DP.

Well, Peter won the price, and did a good job.... what is his price BTW? a year subscription?...I though at least one of the lenses....LOL

yes, as Peter wrote ...

Not a lens Daily, but nice of you in any event!

 

Happy new year to both of you.( see my last upload...;-))

Great photo and naturality.

 

Wish you a very Happy 2008

 

Regards