Blue hour in San Francisco

Golden Gate from Battery Spencer or from the north side at the end of the day is the standard, and it earns it: orange paint, white lamps, blue air. The city from Twin Peaks or from a pier along the Embarcadero is the other picture — a grid of lights under a short western window. Fog is not a failure if it sits under the bridge; it is a failure if it sits in front of your lens as a grey wall.

This page is the California city, timezone America/Los_Angeles. Marine air makes the colour colder than a clear inland evening — trust the histogram more than the LCD.