Can you believe it we are officially at midsummer? It's the 21st June in the northern hemisphere. The longest day of the year.

It was getting light about 3.30 a.m. and the sun was up by 4:30 a.m. I thought I'd get some shots of the midsummer sun.

These photos are what it looked like by 8:30 a.m. Brilliant glaring sunshine. I used a few of the in-camera filters to try them out.

Warning! Never look through the viewfinder if you ever point your camera directly at the sun. Rather use the LCD screen on the back to line up your photographs. Looking directly at the sun can damage your eyes

This photo below is the 'toy camera' mode.

The photo below captured a lens flare, completely accidental I must add.

I tried a few different ISO settings from 100 to 800. At 800 there was way to much glare as seen below.

I tried a deflection shot by aiming away from the sun and just having it poke in the top right corner of the screen. The result is below.

Soft Focus with a little vignetting (darkening the edges) in the photo below. This was added using the in-camera filters.

Hope you have a fabulous summer solstice however you celebrate it and just think. It's all downhill now to Christmas. :)

I may have to put some polarizing filters on my Christmas list? :)

Bonus Photograph :)

And finally 13 hours later after I posted this. I popped out to get a solstice sunset at 9:15 p.m. just to finish of this sequence of photos.

My camera gear:-

Canon EOS 70 D Camera
Sigma 20 mm Lens

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Category	(Solstice photography)
Camera	(Canon 70 D)
f Stop	(f/13)
Exposure	(1/100-250)
ISO	(100-800)
Lens	(Sigma 20 mm)