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Mount Rundle

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Sunlight bursting through storm clouds cast golden light on Mount Rundle in Alberta, Canada. Photographs like this are the result of patience, waiting for the conditions to come together. Notice how much of the frame is dark; the in-camera meter would have been fooled into overexposing this frame.
Photograph by Raymond Gehman

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