VE6AB Mobile Ops
The Blue Hour
On this morning with the night being pushed away by the coming of daylight, the blue hour finds me out on the plains of eastern Alberta playing ham radio and shooting photos.
There is a very short time between night and sunrise, when the sky changes quickly from dark to light. It happens again before sunset, but at dawn the beauty of the blue hour is enhanced by the emptiness and stillness of it all.
You might think that before the sun rises that it is still dark.
Well not entirely as the hour before sunrise the light is very beautiful, and today our digital cameras have no problem capturing this magic time of day.
I know I have mentioned before that I love mornings, and I mean very early mornings when the blue light is slowly giving way to the coming day.
The 17 and 30 meter bands were in good shape at the time I shot this photo, with stations worked on both bands including messaging with XE3N-63 on 30 meters, located on the Yucatán Peninsula of southeastern Mexico.
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