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We saw this coming, and luckily I managed to find a decent place to stop. Fields, mountain, snow, sky ...

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I'm puzzled by the pattern of vertical streaks at the bottom of the picture. This one has been through a lot of post-processing, but this and all the other pictures taken at the same time show this strange pattern. It looks a bit like condensation on a window; but that seems rather unlikely. It is true that the camera was in and out of the car all day, each time with a big temperature change; but then the humidity was low so I wouldn't expect any trouble. And anyway, the camera was warmer than the outside air. It's also true that the darker parts of the shot had to be rescued from underexposure (but even then some pixels right next to the sun, as well as the sun itself, were overexposed and also needed rescue work). Hmmm.