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Pale boulders in the foreground of a still lake at purple dusk, with a dark pine-covered shore, scattered town lights and mountains under a violet sky.

Boulders, Blue Hour

June 2018

Sony A9, 24 millimetres, f 22, 30 seconds, ISO 800

Ten minutes of violet.

Blue hour on a lake goes properly violet for about ten minutes and then stops. The boulders were the only thing close enough to hold detail, so they became the foreground by default — and the town lights on the far shore did the rest.