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Photographing the blue hour

Night view of Lake Lucerne and Mount Pilatus with light trails from boats

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Night view of Lake Lucerne and Mount Pilatus with light trails from boats 12 mm · f/4 · 1.6 s · ISO 1000 View of Lake Lucerne and Mount Pilatus with illuminated villages at night 12 mm · f/2 · 1.6 s · ISO 200 Hotel Schweizerhof on the shores of Lake Lucerne at night 100 mm · f/25 · 20 s · ISO 400 Hotel Schweizerhof on the Lucerne lakeshore at twilight 100 mm · f/25 · 20 s · ISO 400 Hotel Schweizerhof on the shores of Lake Lucerne at night 149 mm · f/9 · 4 s · ISO 100 View of the Pilatus Kulm hotel on the snowy summit during twilight 12 mm · f/4 · 1/20 s · ISO 500 View from stairs onto the Hotel Pilatus Kulm and the mountain peak at sunset. 12 mm · f/4 · 1/20 s · ISO 500 Wasserturm in Lucerne with light projection during the Lilu Festival in front of Mount Pilatus at night. 30 mm · f/4 · 1/1 s · ISO 500 Water tower in Lucerne with light projection at night in front of Mount Pilatus 27 mm · f/4 · 1/2 s · ISO 500 Illuminated water tower in Lucerne during the Lilu Light Festival with Mount Pilatus in the background 27 mm · f/4 · 1/2 s · ISO 500 Illuminated Wasserturm in Lucerne during the Lilu Light Festival with Mount Pilatus in the background 27 mm · f/4 · 1/2 s · ISO 500 Illuminated Wasserturm in Lucerne during the light festival in front of Mount Pilatus 37 mm · f/4 · 1.3 s · ISO 500 Illuminated Water Tower in Lucerne in front of Mount Pilatus at night 37 mm · f/4 · 1 s · ISO 500 Lucerne riverfront at night with Christmas lighting and Chapel Bridge in the background. 12 mm · f/8 · 2.5 s · ISO 640 Wooden bench in the old town of Lucerne with Christmas lights in the evening 12 mm · f/8 · 1 s · ISO 640 People in front of an illuminated merry-go-round at the Lucerne Christmas market 12 mm · f/8 · 1 s · ISO 640 Festively lit carousel and Christmas tree seen from a sleigh at the Lucerne lakefront at night 14 mm · f/11 · 2 s · ISO 1000 Musicians in red jackets playing on the ice rink in Lucerne in front of the Hofkirche 37 mm · f/4 · 1/50 s · ISO 6400 A person speaks at a lectern on an ice rink in Lucerne, with a boat and a Swiss flag visible in the background at dusk. 45 mm · f/4 · 1/125 s · ISO 5000 A man speaks at a lectern on a stage in front of a decorated ship at the Lucerne harbor. 45 mm · f/4 · 1/125 s · ISO 5000 People ice skating on an illuminated rink with a Christmas backdrop at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. 12 mm · f/4 · 1/200 s · ISO 5000 Candles in black lanterns at the edge of the Eiszauber ice rink in Lucerne 45 mm · f/4 · 1/125 s · ISO 3200 View from Mount Pilatus looking over Lake Lucerne and illuminated villages at sunset 12 mm · f/5 · 1/4 s · ISO 1600 The illuminated Jesuit Church in Lucerne under a cloudy evening sky with a historic street lamp in the foreground. 13 mm · f/7.1 · 2 s · ISO 400

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