Ah, the gold­en hour, that peri­od of time 1 hour after sun­rise and 1 hour before sun­set when our ulti­mate light source fil­ters through the max­i­mum amount of atmos­phere. There are only 2 in a day. I took this pic­ture in Bossier City, Louisiana dur­ing the evening ver­sion. More often then not, I miss the morn­ing occur­ance. The musi­cian in me refus­es to rec­og­nize two 7 o’clocks in the same day. I do take advan­tage if I am forced to rise ear­ly, if I must take some­one to the air­port at 0 dark thir­ty for instance. I ratio­nal­ize and bal­ance what I miss by stay­ing up late and devel­op­ing pic­tures in the dark of night.

If you want the Gold­en Gate Bridge to be lit from the city side, you have to be there before noon. If you want to take advan­tage of that atmos­pher­ic phe­nom­e­non instead of buy­ing fil­ters or warm­ing it in post pro­duc­tion, get there ear­ly. This shot was tak­en at 07:30 am, not too bad. Click on it to get the full effect.