Well, sometimes you have to be lucky, although many professional photographers say that there is no luck when you doing pictures for a living. I think they are partly right: The more you use your camera and get to know the techniques, the better you get. It is the same with everything you learn. So you are probably more prepared and know to set the scene – hence know where you have to stand, what has to be in the picture and where composition-wise and so on… in short: know your trade! …. and than you can capture a shot that might look like you were lucky. Right, so! But do think that there is a rest of luck to be found in a good shot, as you can’t predict the weather or any circumstances outside. Lucky us, this is up to the god(s) above and so I feel lucky and happy that I won this tiny contest from my hometown Offenbach. As you might know, it is home to the Deutsche Wetterdienst (Germany weather service) that produces the national weather forecasts. We do have a so called weather park (Wetterpark), where all the aspects of weather are explained in great detail and with models. The blue hour are actually two times of the day; at sunrise and at sunset where the light turns everything I a cool blue. Here we go for sunrise in autumn, when I did my first trip to my cardio doctor. I guess the luck came in form of this mist and I ended up first place. 😀 This was shot with my iPhone, as I am not a professional photographer and as much as I try to carry around the big heavy equipment there are times when it doesn’t make sense…. or would it have made in this case. Dilemma here!