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sunbeam

[suhn-beem] / ˈsʌnˌbim /




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The photos from this series include such purely visual attractions as milky light, fractured sunbeams and powdered pigment suspended in midair during Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.

From Washington Post

Think palm prints, sunbeams and warm California hues.

From Los Angeles Times

The sunlit surface of the sea blooms with phytoplankton, zooplankton, algae, bacteria and other minuscule life, all feeding on sunbeams or one another.

From New York Times

Cherries glow bright red inside clear jars, filaments burn with intense white light, and sunbeams scatter through glass as if refracted through a prism.

From Washington Post

She was in her grandparents’ house, which her father helped build, “laying on the carpeted floor in a sunbeam coming through the sliding glass door,” she recalled.

From New York Times