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Great ball of flame

Sunrise over Blarney a few days ago. There was a thin layer of cloud on the horizon that nicely blocked out much of the light of the sun allowing me to capture this early morning sun.

It’s amazing to think that the light we see takes 8 minutes to travel the immense distance between the Sun and Earth. What’s even more remarkable is the thousands of years a photon can spend zinging back and forth inside the Sun before emerging as heat and light.

Tags: Blarney, Canon 20D, Canon 75-300, cloud, Cork, Cork Photos, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, morning, red, silhouette, Sky, Sun, sunrise, Trees

Further Reading:

• Shih Tzu and the Ball
• Shih Tzu playing ball on the beach
• Through the long grass
• Shih Tzu in flight
• Shih Tzu on a sunset beach

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am and is filed under Blarney, Canon 20D, Canon 75-300, Cork, Ireland, Photos, Sky, Sun, Urban. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Great ball of flame”

1. donG hO Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm

   amazing view of the sun. the sunlight expresses how complicated it is through this photo.

2. Bettythesheep Says:
   April 21st, 2008 at 8:48 pm

   Really unusual sunrise, great photo.

3. Flickr: ihlphotography Says:
   April 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 am

   Wonderful shot. One would imagine that this sunrise is an African sunrise somewhere in Tanzania or somewhere….

4. Flickr: Kieran McCarthy Says:
   April 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 am

   great shot

5. Flickr: estgirl99 Says:
   April 24th, 2008 at 2:25 am

   awesome shot
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   please add the tag GoldStarAward

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