Golden hour is the perfect time for photography and photos taken during golden hour deserve the perfect caption. We have gathered the best golden hour captions here for you to choose from.
Golden hour is the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset and it is typically the best time for selfies and pics for Instagram. The sun is a soft glow at this time and makes everything and everyone look better. It’s called the magic time for a reason! So, if you are planning to take an amazing photo for your next Instagram post, get out at golden hour for the best results.
Our Favorite Golden Hour Captions
- The golden magic
- Touched by gold
- I’m golden!
- Chasing the sun
- Light of gold
- Making time for golden hour
- Live life in warm yellows
- Golden hour lover
- These are the golden days
- The sunlight paints us gold
- This is my kind of light show
- All that glitters really is gold
- Goals, Growing & Glowing
- Some moments are gold
- The sunlight paints us gold
- Adore gold skies
- Loving golden hour
- Painted gold
- Leaving a golden sparkle
- I’m glowing
- This light is golden
- Caressed by gold
- A selfie a day keeps the doctor away
- Golden hour glow
- Let the sunshine in
- Invest the golden hour in your selfie
- You have a heart of gold
- Living life like it’s golden
- A golden state of mind
- Some people grow up, I glow up
- Everything is better during the golden
- Couldn’t help but share this look created by me on the beautiful
- The sun is alone but it still shines
- Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold
- Less bitter. More glitter.
- Caught golden hour
- Everything is better during the golden hour
- Sunny Hunny
- Mother Nature working her magic
- This time of the day…
- When you take a selfie so good, you can’t believe it’s you
- She leaves a little sparkle whereever she goes
- Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold
- You are the sun to my shine
- Forever chasing the sun
- Sunshine & Smiles
- Catching both golden hours
- I cried all this makeup off later, but at least I didn’t cry during the golden hour
- At the perfect hour
- Life’s a golden ride
- Everything you touch turns to gold
- Not letting the golden hours slip by
- These will be perfect for every golden hour lover!
- Honey, your soul is golden
- Shine bright like the tip of my nose
- The golden hour never gets old
- There is no eleventh hour with cosmic ordering, only the golden hour.
- Nothing lasts forever
- GOLDEN HOUR, golden girl/boy
- Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold
- The perfect hour
- It’s called the golden hour, just before the sun slinks behind the mountains. I like it. A lot.
- There goes the sun
- That sunset is screaming for attention
- Big clouds and colourful skies
- Sunlight dripping below the horizon is like silence between musical notes. Magic
- Fifty shades of…red, orange, pink, and purple?
- The most beautiful sunsets are the ones we share
- Just watching sun-kissed waves drift the day away.
- You’re the sun to my sky
- A setting sun setting fire to the sea and sand
- Chasing sunrays, beach waves, and sunsets
- I dream in the colors of the sunset
- Sunsets and silhouettes
- The most beautiful sunsets are the ones we share
- Proof that few things in life are as beautiful as a setting sun
- Feeling sun kissed by the sunrise
- Watch more sunrises than Netflix
- I’m being seduced by the sunrise
- Sometimes, it’s worth not pushing that snooze button
- This sunrise is my favourite colour
- The sun and I decided to rise to the occasion
- Reflecting on the sunrise
- The sky in speaking to me in colors
- There’s no darkness in a beautiful sunrise
- Summer: Sun-kissed and Salty
- A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night
- Kissed by the sun
- Wake up to a sun-kissed day
- Let the warm glow of the setting sun kiss life’s hurts away
- Mornings where you let the sun kiss your skin
- She is not sun-kissed, she kisses the sun
- Feeling the warmth of the sun’s rays
- Waiting for that first ray of sunrise
- Sitting in the sunrays
- Dawn breaks with sunrays
- The sun starts each morning with bright new rays
- Sunrays brought a glow to my world
- Love feels like morning’s sunrays warming your whole being
- Sunrays carry warmth to everything they touch
- Sunrays are kissing my face
- Happiness is feeling sunlight on your face
- The sunlight paints us gold
- A kind of sunlight one remembers for a life time
- Shine like sunlight
- Stay sunlit
- These are the sunlight days
- Sunlight brings out the world’s beauty
- Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
- Let the light shine out of the darkness
- When in doubt, add more fairy lights
- Beauty is a light in the heart
- My heart burns for the city lights
- Everyone shines, given the right lighting
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
- Light at the end of the tunnel
- Give off light and people will find you
- You may think your light is small, but it can make a huge difference in other people’s lives
- Shine your own light. Follow your own path
- Leave it a little lighter wherever you go
- Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
If you like these, you might also like our other lists of Golden Hour Quotes, Sunset Captions, Sunrise Captions, Short Sunrise Quotes, Morning Captions, Short Sunset Quotes, Scenery Captions, Sky Captions and Night Captions.
Short Captions for Golden Hour
- Shine like gold
- Glow
- Feeling golden
- Bliss
- Golden light
- Glowing
- Good as gold
- Stay golden
- Sunkissed
- Magic hour
- Golden
Golden Hour Quotes for Instagram
“It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.” – Kristin Hannah
“It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it’s not yet over, but there’s no denying the time of day.” ― Vicki Covington
“Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.” – Brian Tracy
“Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.” – Debasish Mridha
“Baby, don’t you know, that you’re my golden hour.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James M. Barrie
“I love the golden hour in the evening. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.” — Stacy London
“Golden hour of magical light the sky is alive.” — Tanish Kherotia
“The horizon is the fine line between golden hour and blue hour.” — Destin
“Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all of the magnificence that surrounds me.” – Debasish Mridha
“The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.” — Robert Burns
“Neither the sunrise nor the sunset, you are the golden hour that would soon evanescent.” — Abhipsa Kanungo
“The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu.”― Rehan Khan
“Golden hour of twilight, sets the stage. It’s time for the silhouettes – the shadow puppets. A calmness in its clarity, all hued in orange and black. Masking the unwanted, the ethereal silhouettes.” — Sumathi
“They sipped until the sun, as golden as syrupy as the bourbon, slipped into the sea.”― Delia Owens
“When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.” – Galen Rowell
“You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.” ― H.G. Wells
“The light is amber, the air still; the daylilies have folded in on themselves. Soon, the hooded blue of dusk will fall, followed by the darkness of night and the sky writing of the stars, indecipherable to us mortals, despite our attempts to force narrative upon them.” ― Elizabeth Berg
And there you have it! Our list of the best golden hour captions.
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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