Golden Days

| Allison

The other day I went out to take some photos at “the golden hour” as we photographers call it. Heh heh. Maggie came along to protect me from sunburn or vicious groundhogs or something… or perhaps she was just bored. XD

We have a grand old maple in our front yard that’s usually the first to turn colors.

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Even though the year is going down in flames, you could say, there were still some bright, spring-like greens around.

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Maggie trotted faithfully along beside me and guarded me while I sat and took pictures. ♥ She was on the lookout for those vicious groundhogs, I suppose. XD

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The sun turned my hair really a bright red. It’s a little bit reddish-goldish like this in real life, but not this bright! (Yes, I know, rather random pictures. But it was fun!)

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Please excuse the photobombers (Maggie and my toes).

 

It’s kind of awkward when you’re trying to photograph your hair (for some reason) so you hold a strand in front of your face and then your dog comes over to make sure you’re not paralyzed or something since you haven’t gotten up for the past 30 seconds or so… *Sigh* XD

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You can see the gorgeous sky peeking through the grass in this one. That was probably one of the prettiest skies I’ve seen not counting sunsets!

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I love this picture because 1.) look at the bokeh and 2.) look at the cute wittle spiderweb garland hung on the grass! The spiders must have been having a welcome party for autumn.

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And lastly but not leastly, I shall leave you with an extremely hilarious picture of Maggie trying to chase down an itch. XD XD XD

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BWAHAHAHAHA! Sooo funny!

So there you go. Photos from the golden hour on a golden day in the golden season. Gold is nice, don’t you think?

***Allison***

P. S. Sometimes I don’t like fall because it’s too beautiful. 😛 But seriously, do you ever have that feeling when something’s so beautiful you can’t stand it so you whip out your camera in a frantic attempt to save some of the beauty and capture it forever and that helps a little bit but it’s still just too much? Or is that just me…

105 thoughts on “Golden Days”

    1. Wow, thank you soooo much, Jasmin! (Is it okay if I call you that or should I call you TheOriginalPhoenix?) That’s so sweet! I’m really glad you liked it. 🙂

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      1. You’re welcome and you can absolutely call me Jasmin! TheOriginalPhoenix would be a lot to type every time you address me.😂

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    1. Thank you so much, Christian Homeschooler! Okay… seventh picture *counts pictures* Oh yeah! I like that one too! 😀 And yes, the grass and the spider web picture is one of my favorites. 🙂
      P. S. I use a Nikon Coolpix L830. 🙂 It’s a lovely camera, and I would highly recommend it! They actually don’t make my model anymore – they make a L840. 🙂

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  14. Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaase turn you background back to normal. I can’t stand it!!!!!!! If you don’t, I will stop visiting your blog. (seriously) (Yes,seriously, I mean it.)

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  16. MAGGIE YOU ARE JUST SOOO… LOL! XD hahahaha!!! 😛 XD That is so cute! 😛 😉 THOSE ARE THE MOST AMAZINGEST PICTURES IN THE WOOOOOORLD! ALLISON I LOVE IT SO MUCH HOW CAN YOU BE SUCH AN AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER IT”S NOT FAAAAIIIIIIIR!!! NO WONDER YOU HAVE 1000000000 followers!

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    1. Ha ha, I know, Maggie IS cute! 😀
      Wow, thank you super-duper extra much, K. A.! ♥♥♥ That was sooooo sweet! It made my day – er, night! 😀 But hold on there, girl, I didn’t get a million followers yet, just a thousand. XD XD But hey, maybe one day…. XD

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              1. Haha! 😉 Nice! I can tell! 😛 😉 But the great cameras can only get great pictures if there’s a great photographer that owns the camera. 🙂

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                  1. 😛 😉 True! But a good gun can only shoot it’s target if it’s got a good shooter. 😛 Wait a minute…that’s pretty much exactly what I just said before, isn’t it..

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          2. Allison, you know how search engines are? Where people can look up the title of a post that I made on google or bing- and SEE it? Well, no matter how much I look up ‘leash training pups’ (my most recent post) I can NOT find it on my blog! And it has some tips that I think might be helpful- I’m not sure why it’s not on google…

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            1. Hmm… that’s strange. But it could be that you have your blog set to “discourage search engines” which means it won’t let search engines show content from your blog very well. Maybe??

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                    1. Okay, it’s actually really simple. Just go to your WP Admin and choose the “Reading” tab under “Settings.” Scroll down till you get to the “Site Visiblity” section, and choose “Allow search engines to index this site.” Hope that helps!

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                    2. Okay! Thanks…but for some reason it was already on the allow search engines to index this site… oh well. I clicked it anyways..maybe it will work..OOR! Maybe it’s just the computer. Can you look up “Leash Training Pups” and see if there’s one from cuddly critters?

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                    3. Aww, bummer! Okay, let me check… Hmm, I searched for several different things but it didn’t come up until I searched for “leash training pups cuddlycritters.wordpress.com” 😦 But it DID come up then! I think what’s the matter is just that there are soooo many other posts and websites about leash training dogs that your post just gets mixed in somewhere in the middle of those pages where it’s hard to find. 😥

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                    4. Yeah.. Hm… :/ I guess.. Oh well.. Even when I searched
                      leash training pups cuddly critters it didn’t come up.. I guess you had to do the little wordpress thinger. :/ Oh well.. 🙂 Thanks, Allison!

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  17. GAHHH!!! THESE ARE SO PRETTY HALPPPP!!! XD
    ALLISON! These are beautiful pictures! I looove the ones of your hair. 🙂
    ~Grace ♥ with the code alphabet? Well, I’ve been trying to do it, but it won’t work. :\ I only have numbers at the top of my keyboard, not at the right. Do you think that could be why it isn’t working? 🙂
    Thanks! 😀

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    2. Aww, THANK YOU SO MUCH, GRACE! 😀 😀 That’s so sweet! ♥
      P. S. Hmm… that’s weird. That could be, because on our computer it only works with the number keypad on the right side. That’s too bad. 😦

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  19. Your photos are beautiful, Allison! You are a professional photographer! 😉 Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve felt like you said at the end of your post, although I love the beauty of nature and capturing it in photography, you can go see 3 pictures I’ve taken here: http://thisredeemedgirl16.blogspot.com/2016/11/through-your-eyes-photography-contest.html . And after that post, just scroll down for entry 2 and entry 1!! Let me know what you think! 😀

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    1. Aww, thank you so much, Livy! You’re always so sweet! ♥
      WOAH! That autumn scenery picture is sooo pretty! I love it! 😀 THAT looks like professional photography too! 😀

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      1. Aww, thanks! I didn’t think that picture of mine was that great, but then everybody keeps saying its awesome, so I’m kinda amazed! LOL! 😉

        I’ll have another picture on that blog soon, I’ll give you the link when it’s on there! 😀

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  20. I, Clara, hereby dare you, Allison, to go to theupstairsgirl.wordpress.com and comment this on any of her posts:
    “I’m being chased by fourteen angry purple hippos! HELP! They’re gaining on me!”
    Hehehe….

    -Clara ❤

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  25. It’s never too late for comments, is it? Those photos were so…AWESOME! I liked these ones the best:
    https://allisonsblog2.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-10-12-allisonfallcalvesbuildings-94-1280×960.jpg?w=1312, https://allisonsblog2.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-10-12-allisonfallcalvesbuildings-108.jpg?w=1312, https://allisonsblog2.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-10-12-allisonfallcalvesbuildings-163-1280×960.jpg?w=1312, https://allisonsblog2.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-10-12-allisonfallcalvesbuildings-9-1280×960.jpg?w=1312 and ESPECIALLY this one: https://allisonsblog2.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-10-12-allisonfallcalvesbuildings-103-1280×960.jpg?w=1312. Let’s face it: I LIKE ALL OF THEM.

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      1. You’re welcome! 😀 I love golden autumns. I think the order of my favorite seasons are spring, autumn, winter and summer. We don’t get a lot of golden autumns where I live. :\

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      1. WOW! We never get snow early. 😦 😦 My mom said that in the nineteen years we’ve lived in this house, we’ve only had one or two white Christmases!

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          1. Yeah. 😦 So frankly, we’ve gotten quite used to “green Christmases.” Or, silver Christmases. We normally get silver Christmases because of frost, and personally, i think that they’re actually quite pretty!

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  27. Green IS one of the colors of Christmas. 😉 They’re not bad if you have lots of evergreens. 😉

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