The Blue Hour is the period of light, about 40 minutes, when the
sun has just set and the sky and remaining light takes on a predominately blue hue.
A navy blue sky. Beautiful! I always love that hour when
the sky is one of my favorite colors.
This particular night, the navy blue was accented with two pink stripes.
I'm linking up with Sky Watch Friday!
Click HERE for more lovely skies from all over the world.
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I love that blue, as well the blue of a dark stormy sky!
ReplyDeleteI love dark stormy skies, too!
DeleteHi Betsy - fantastic ... and I didn't know it was called the Blue Hour ... and that sky is just azurely stunning, especially with the pink streaks - nature is amazing ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI learned that name just last year. Perfect, isn't it?
DeleteSuch a beautiful heaviness about the blue. I enjoy that time of the evening. Twilight is another favourite. The pink/peach pastels are pretty too.
ReplyDeleteI kind of wish I lived out in the country with a vast view of the horizon. Sunrises and sunsets would be amazing! Yes I love twilight too.
DeleteReally beautiful shots Betsy!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
DeleteI love the blue hour! You got some great shots of it.
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing it. Sometimes it's too cloudy!
DeleteLovely Coloring!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it? Thanks for visiting Janet.
DeleteWow, very nice!
ReplyDeleteI thought so!
DeleteI'd never heard that phrase before! Beautiful pictures
ReplyDeleteI think it's such a cool name!
DeleteLove the dark blue sky with the dash of pink ~ very beautiful . . . :)
ReplyDeleteI stood on my front porch and took those photos...so lovely!
DeleteVery romantic photos . . . .
Deletebut there ya go - I'm a big softy . . . . . :)
I love the colors of nature, beautiful photos,
ReplyDeletelots of colors...never boring...love it!
DeleteLoving the blue!
ReplyDeleteMe, too...I love that deep, dark color!
DeleteYou've just taught me something. Thank you. I have always loved this time of day.. second only to the magic golden hour which would happen a while before the blue hour. I just didn't know it was called this. In fact, once I read your post, I wondered if it was an actual term or is it Betsy's pet name for this beautiful time of day. I read that it's a known term (just not to me) and that it's also called the sweet hour. Both suit me just fine. Thank you for this. I'll have to add it to my photography vocabulary. And thank you for the lovely photos which illustrate it so beautifully.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it fun to learn something like that? Now..the magic golden hour...that's the perfect name for that, too...that golden glow of the sun on the horizon? Lovely. We're having a nice clear day here so both the golden and blue hours will be wonderful!
DeleteI didn't know it had a name...How lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt's the perfect name, too...just the the golden hour that comes just before it!
DeleteAwesome shot indeed
ReplyDeleteNow I'll remember the blue hour at my feed
Not to be confused with Blue Guy.
DeleteRandy is much too shy!
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lol yeah oh so shy
DeleteHe may talk on the 10th try
very pretty photos. Hope you guys have a nice weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of a blackberry sky, isn't it? :)
DeleteDidn't know about the 'Blue Sky'...interesting. I, too, love blue skies. I also like those five adorable 'men' baby birds at the top. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteHi Misty! Thanks so much for the visit!
DeleteSorry about that..I meant 'Blue Hour' not 'Blue Sky'. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blue hour sky shots!
ReplyDeleteYour avatar looks like the blue hour! :)
DeleteHow lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks, lady. :)
DeleteI learned something new!
ReplyDeletePretty cool, isn't it? :)
DeleteHi Betsy, just catching up now that I am back, I have been reading, just not commenting. I loved the screen and the makeover that you gave it in your last post. You are so creative!! These skies are simply stunning aren't they. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy...hope you've had a nice time away!
DeleteIt is a beautiful time of the day. Great capture.
ReplyDeletethanks, larry! :)
DeleteYou know, all those decades of Southern skies, with endless scope across the immense flat Delta, had not prepared me for the absolute Sapphire of an Indiana Evening Sky. I noticed it first one Fourth of July, when we came out of the airport into all that blaze of arc-lights in the parking lot. There was the bluest BLUE overhead EVER SEEN. I thought perhaps it was the lights' enhancement of the sky beyond, but all the way home, I craned out the car window like an eager old dog out for a ride, and it was the same. True Blue.
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And it's even more that way in the Autumn of the year, with the blaze of leaves against that lapis/midnight/azure---no word for color is enough.
Many, Many sublime l'Heures Bleu to you.
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I totally agree, Rachel! There is just nothing like the skies in the midwest during September! Not only the blue hour, but the sky during the day....it's never so blue, so deep and so lovely! And then you add those huge brilliant white puffy clouds, and it's just breath-taking! I was born a hoosier....hope you're enjoying Indiana!
DeleteMany Happy Returns, Betsy. I hope you are having a nice day.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Keith....so happy to see your comment go through today!
DeleteI just rejoined Facebook, against my better judgement, and that seems to have resolved the matter. I don't know why . . . .
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