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Old June 8th 06, 02:10 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Please, why is sky washed out?

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Not likely. A hazy sky has no polarized light. It's scattered!

Not that this isn't true, but also the light that you see coming from
the clear sky is scattered (otherwise it'd be black like in space); it's
blue because of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering