Sometimes photography can be a bit of a lottery... you don't always get the results you expect. Occasionally things go completely pear-shaped and you end up with an abomination, but at other times you end up with the most amazing image.

There's a technique in photography known as contra-jour (from the French, 'against the day'), which breaks all the rules because you point the camera at the sun allowing sunlight directly into the lens. Generally speaking this is a no-go area for photographers, but it can be useful for generating dramatic silhouettes or as in this case, capturing reflections off water.

This was one of those very lucky occasions when the sunlight combined with the conditions to produce a dramatic effect...

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Sadly I doubt I'll ever be able to recreate these colours with artificial filters... in the lottery of photography, it just happened o be me! :))