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Rayons crépusculaires sur la mer

Crepuscular rays shine through gaps in clouds over a sea with distant islands in silhouette and a rocky foreground.

Crepuscular rays fanning down through a broken cloud deck over the Aegean in late afternoon, each shaft landing as a bright patch on the dark water, the Cyclades in silhouette between them, 70mm telephoto from a headland on Naxos Voir plus

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A high-angle view of the limestone islands of Ang Thong in the Gulf of Thailand, featuring a dark monsoon rain curtain moving across the jade-colored sea under a cloudy sky.
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A view of Bardsey Island across the sound from the Llŷn Peninsula at sunset, featuring a dark island silhouette, a golden sea with a tide race, and foreground cliffs covered in purple heather and thrift.
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A sunrise view over the Jirisan mountain range, featuring a sea of clouds filling the valleys between dark blue mountain ridges, with wind-bent shrubs in the foreground.
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A sunset view over the Kujukushima islands, featuring numerous wooded islets silhouetted against a copper-toned sky and water, with a small boat leaving a wake in the center.
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Sunlight breaks through dark, stormy clouds to illuminate a granite mountain peak and a landscape of green, stone-walled fields.
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Sunlight streams through a break in dark, stormy clouds, creating bright silver beams that illuminate the surface of the sea below, viewed from a rocky cliffside.
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A scenic view of layered, pine-covered headlands silhouetted against a golden sunset over the sea, with the sun casting a shimmering reflection on the water.
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A ferry crosses the sunlit Marmara Sea in front of the silhouetted Princes' Islands at sunset, viewed from a stone jetty in Moda.
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A sunset view across a body of water toward the Paps of Jura, with dark, rounded mountain peaks silhouetted against a golden sky and a thin band of cloud clinging to the central summit.
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A winding mountain road descends through a pine forest toward the Ionian Sea during a golden sunset.
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A low-angle view of waves crashing against red granite boulders on a rocky coastline at dawn, with a distant mountain range visible under a soft, golden sky.
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A wide-angle landscape view of the Santorini caldera at golden hour, featuring steep volcanic cliffs, white buildings perched on the edge, and the deep blue Aegean Sea below.
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