Nice shot, I have to wonder how it would have turned out if you had the lighthouse positioned between you and the sun... so that the sun shone through the glass.
Very cool photo! Nice capture. I would have tried to photoshop out the colored dots caused by the sun... I feel that my focus tends to land there because the colors stick out from the blue sky. However, great capture :)
This is great Paul - really tough one to expose and you did a great job. The cloud's perfect too and I even like the aberrations in different colour dots. Realise I've discovered this very late, but I like it a lot and wanted to comment.