Nice photo. How did you get the sun to look so nice. Where ever the sun is included in my photos it's just pure white and pretty much destroys my photo (and probably my sensor!). What's the trick?
You may get a more scientific explanation; this is just the way I see it... Including the sun ‘in shot’ needs a bit of thought. When the sun is high in the sky, and unobscured by clouds, it will be a few stops brighter than anything else in the picture... and so will ‘burn out’ to white. The lower the sun is in the sky (dawn or dusk), the less powerful it becomes as a light source, while also becoming ‘warmer’ in tone (ie towards the red end of the spectrum, rather than the blue). When the sun is close to the horizon (ie sunset) you can include it in a picture without it getting blown out... though a grey grad may help to balance out the exposure values between foreground and sky.
I don’t often include the sun in shot, because the camera can’t cope with the range of brightness. If the sun is hidden (or partly hidden) by cloud, it can work. Or you can ‘hide’ the sun (behind a figure, say, or tree branch), or expose for the sky and let everything in the foreground go into silhouette. Hazy light, mist or fog can also ‘mute‘ the effect of the sun to the point where you can include it in shot without it burning out.
This pic was taken directly into the sun, but the power of the light was lessened by morning mist... and by moving the camera so the sun was just obscured by part of a tree. You don't see the shape of the sun itself, but just the mood associated with backlighting. So no 'burn out', no flare artefacts, etc...