Any photographer will tell of The Golden Hour: that time
just after sunrise and just before sunset when the light is softer than at
other times of day, making for a very pleasing effect on a photograph. Anyone
that enjoys walking at these times will tell you of a very different golden
hour, when animals and birds either welcome the morning or settle for the
night, this is a transitional time too and is perhaps more obvious in the evening
when there seems to be more of a mixture of our day and night creatures.
As a photographer I prefer the morning, the
whole day awaits and the possibilities are endless but as a wanderer I prefer
the evening when Foxes, Badgers, Sika and Roe reclaim the countryside and their
footprints finally outnumber ours.
People have been watching the sunrise and
sunset for thousands of years but we arrived late to this party, other
creatures value this time as well and they have been doing so for an awful lot
longer. Look and you will find creatures just watching and waiting, with each
one having their own thoughts on what the day or the night will bring, for some
it is a matter of life and death.
So golden or not, this really is a very
special time.
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