Wally Roth at Sebastian Beach – about midway up Vancouver Island, in British Columbia – caught this image before sunrise Monday morning.
The vertical beam of light is called a sun pillar or light pillar. Wally wrote:
I took this image of the dawn sky a full 13 minutes before the sun peeked over the horizon.
Thanks, Wally!
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