I love going back through my photo archives and finding things I haven’t shared on this website before, including this photo from a trip to Disney World in 2012. My wife and her family were Disney Vacation Club members, so we got to stay in a lot of great places near the parks when we visited. On this trip we were staying in either Boardwalk or Beach Club (I forget), and I brought my camera along to capture some evening Disney light magic. The blue hour light was perfect, and I was able to get a fantastic framing back towards the lighthouse and boardwalk with the yellow lights contrasting the blue sky.

I have a backlog of unpublished photos, including this gem from a prolific trip I took to Europe in 2018. On this same trip, I took a lot of favorites including several from Paris and a panorama of Stockholm. However, a folder of images remained untouched. Finally, I revisited them, and this one stood out. But where was it taken?

In 2019, I took a couple of wonderful sunset photos of Seattle’s West Point Lighthouse while on a business trip. I wrote about one of them in 2020, including details about how and why I ended up in this location. But I’ve long had this second version of the photo in my archives, and I’m happy to share it now.

Sometimes you find a great photo you didn’t expect in a wonderful location. While visiting family in Pagosa Springs in 2015, I had an idea to take sunset photos on Piedra Road north of town. On one evening in particular, I raced out after the conclusion of a family event and arrived just in time to see the sun had already set. Despite the missed opportunity, I was able to capture a different kind of beauty – an ethereal blue hour shot.

Sometimes the best photos are the ones that you have to wait for. That was certainly the case when I took this shot at Blueberry Lake in Vermont. I had visited this spot before and liked it, but I had trouble finding the right composition for sunset. On this particular visit, I decided to wait and see what the sky would do once the sun had set.