The sun was about ten minutes off the ridge and would have been a featureless white disc on its own, so I moved until a pine was in front of it and let the branches break it up. Stopped well down for the star. Behind, the ranges stack back in progressively lighter blues, which is the part of this landscape I never get tired of.

Through the Pine
New Zealand · August 2020
1D X Mark II, 88 millimetres, f 22, 1/125 of a second, ISO 100