Gold, Blue, and Witching Hours - AI Version

Three Hivers have recently piqued my curiosity about AI:

@iviaxpow3r for his storytelling posts and images like this.
@disregardfiat for using craiyon.com for images like this.
@detlev for using nightcafe.studio for images like this.

Thanks to these fellas opening the AI rabbit hole, I began groping around in the dark. I stumbled around and bonked my shins on things, but, since it's pretty easy, got some results.

Yesterday I wrote a post about going for a Sunday ride with my wife during the "golden hour". I snapped a photo (see bottom of this page).

For the fun of it, I also entered some prompts into the AI gizmos just to see what would pop up. My prompt was:

golden hour, blue hour, magic hour, sunday ride, sunrise, sunset, country, farm, snow

And here's what I got:

From Hotpot.ai...

_{https://hotpot.ai/s/art-generator/8-OhyXyQBNFL7GZX8}

From NightCafe...

_{https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/gmHkISUKy5RObVDiqb4x}

_{nine images from https://www.craiyon.com/ using prompt above}

_{My favorite from craiyon}

Today

Today I added "witches" and "witching hour" into the prompt just see what happens. For some reason, adding in witches yields horses. Go figure.

From craiyon.com

_{craiyon.com using: golden hour, blue hour, magic hour, sunday ride, sunrise, sunset, country, farm, snow, witch, witching hour}

From NightCafe:

_{https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/9stEAoly7SpP94ijaDMZ}

My photo

Having a graphic or image of some sort is important with Hive posts. I've kind of gone through different phases on this. First, I used random images I found from wherever while searching around (not advisable). Then I used unsplash.com (a good option). Yet, I wanted things to truly be original and truly be mine. So, I got to just drawing simple doodles by hand (still my favorite). From there, I started making animated gif doodles by hand (great, but takes time). Lastly, there's this AI option. Fooling around with AI image creators is kinda fun, but I'm still partial to the originality and authenticity of the hand drawn image.

And, as to the golden hour images, I still like my quickly snapped and unedited photo the best.

_{Photo by me (@crrdlx) taken with a Samsung A32 phone. The photo is unedited.}

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