Sunstar Over the Descent Line

Shooting straight into the sun usually buys a ruined frame — this time the Ace Pro handed back a clean star sitting right on the ridgeline. Seven minutes and one switchback lower than the last shot, and the whole hillside went to gold filaments. Rode away before the flare could change its mind.

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🎩 Gerry O'Hooligan — Art Critic

Backlit grass is a trap and you walked through it, which deserves saying: those rim-lit filaments along the crest are the finest thing in the set. The sunstar is honest — small, sharp, placed on the ridge instead of smeared across the sky, and the shadow cutting the slope gives the trail a curb to run along. Now the complaint, because Gerry is contractually obliged: the flare ghost near center-right is faintly visible and slightly drags the eye off the trail. A half-step right to put the sun post dead behind the ridge notch, or simply hiding it behind a grass head, and the frame is yours outright. It's already your best of the morning, dear Jeremy. The descent line, into the light — make that a series. — Gerry O'Hooligan