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Facing east in the little NSW hamlet of Teagarden, sun just having set. Another shot I'm considering for the Blue Hour contest. The original I've posted before but I decided to go back to the file and start from scratch, particularly in regard to overcoming a lot of lens warp and my Gimp skills have developed since the first version was posted here.

Enjoy.

Mikel.

EDIT - I've been thinking about how blue this shot is. Why it is so blue. I have six or seven shots from the same spot at the same time and they all have this amazing blueness. My theory has two elements. It was the "blue hour" and that massive cloud bank was reflecting light that would normally not have been part of the scene. If you look at This Shot<.a>, which was taken from this bridge about twenty minutes to half an hour earlier than this shot of the bridge, you can see that the sky west was clear of clouds. Once the sun set, which it had in this current shot, the blue light which gives the "blue hour" it's name, was unobstructed by any clouds in the west and was reflected from the clouds which were high and in the east, keeping things brighter than they might normally have been. Without those clouds the blue light would not have had anything to be seen on, nothing to bounce it back toward me and my camera. Normally at the blue hour the blue light can be seen toward the west where the sun has just set but it's light still is strong in the sky, reflected by the atmosphere. On that horizon you will also get bands of red and green colour close to where the sun just set. I happened to be facing the right way on the right day. Lucky me. :)