Have you ever wanted to create beautiful night photos but it was completely dark when you found the right spot and subject? Well the bluehoursite.com web site will help you by calculating the best time frame for taking stunning blue hour pictures. If you don't know what is "blue hour" then you're in the right place. It refers to the time after the sun goes below the horizon and the sky goes into deep blue for a while. This is the best timing to take photos. You can learn more about this in the articles section by reading the tutorials.

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DEG Winterwelt, DüsseldorfNight Life at Leek cityMono Lake, CAHelix BridgeColorful Clarke QuayBlue Hour Capture of The Parkette Drive-In in Lexington, Kentucky Joe Smiley opened the Parkette on November 11, 1951. Joe created his own version of the Double-Decker hamburger called the 'Poor Boy'. Joe brought this burger idea with him from West Virginia. He named it after the life that he saw there. Joe said, 'When the coal strikes were on, everybody was starving.' The Parkette quickly became the place to be and police had to be called to unsnarl traffic on Saturday nights. The famous Parkette sign was built in 1957 and is a symbol of Lexington and stands as a monument overlooking New Circle Road., ready to serve all that pass by. The sign itself is a landmark and a point of reference for this section of the city. •The sign, created in 1953 or 1954, was $10,000 but would cost close to $100,000 today. It is about 30 or 40' tall. The Drive-In spends about $1,000 a year replacing transformers and lights to maintain the sign. •At one time, Parkette's Famous Fried Chicken was called 'Kentucky Fried Chicken'. •When the Parkette first opened, a giant billboard in the back listed the Menu items. The Car Hops would sit on bleachers outside of the restaurant and come up to your car to take your orders. •In its first 40 years (1951-1991), the Parkette had sold an estimated 19.2 million 'Poor Boys'. •When the Parkette first opened in 1952, New Circle Road was a dirt/gravel road from Broadway to Liberty Road. •The Parkette Drive-In was featured on the Food Network's, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives on September 20, 2010. Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the 'State of Kentucky' in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States. Kentucky is known as the 'Bluegrass State', a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. www.theparkette.com/history.asp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KentuckyTranquilityBlue

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