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A bit of minimalism today, I loved how this orange buoy stood out against the clear blue water of the Ionian Sea
...... on a colour wheel ......
52 Project 2018 Week 48
Theme: Opposites
HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm f2.8-4 Limited
Our DailyChallenge ... complementary colours
The blue basket with the orange and blue pens inside. Shots below show the basket and pens seperate.
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #2 - Containers" "Thoroughly Abstract Thursday"
I took a pic of my crocus earlier in the week but then saw that that subject had already been beautifully covered (with the same colour combination too), so I decided I'd try and find something else ... and somehow I got to Thursday without posting anything.
I was pleased to finally find this blue and orange when walking on the beach today.
Active Assignment Weekly - Common Object
AAW - Nov. 29-Dec.6, 2021.
Tried to do something with complementary colours yellow and blue. Image cropped, sharpened and spots cloned off lemon.
Flickr Lounge ~ Complementary Colours
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on my morning walk I saw.........................
ODT - COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #43 - Stones" "Thoroughly Abstract Thursday"
From the archives, Thanksgiving at the cottage 2006. I posted a number of remarkable photos at the time, but now with the benefit of Lightroom I can make more of them presentable.
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Violet and purple are the bees' favour colours and the Bittersweet flower raises its petals to show everything, including green and white nectar guides that bees probably see in ultraviolet a bit like we do flashing neon. The magic of macro photography helps us admire the flowers, tiny to us at barely a centimetre long, but bigger that most of the little bumble bees I see enjoying them.
In his Book of British Berries, David Lang tells us Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara, Woody Nightshade) has been known and used medicinally for a very long time, and as late as 1934 was a popular remedy for chronic rheumatism and skin eruptions. Children have been poisoned by the fruits but the only 12 cases listed by the National Poison Information Service at that time were mild and recovered fully within 24 hours. He adds that livestock rarely eat it, but some affected animals become addicted to it.
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 229/365
Another pastel drawing underway.
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The most flambuoyant and vivacious of our moth orchids this year is one sporting complementary colours, mauve and pale chartreuse. Not sure why one decided to look at the ground. This newer plant has out-performed several older Phalaenopsis for three years, but the sickly ones are recuperating under new LED lights, growing new roots, so I hope they might provide a more diverse display in February to June 2024. Healthy plants like this one are perfectly capable of responding to bright window light.
I have an agenda to educate the Flickr community about colour theory. If I enter this photo in a weekly challenge for complementary colours, an admin might reject it because it doesn't look properly green and red or purple and yellow to them. but these colours are not pressing any boundaries, not roughly complementary, they are precisely complementary.
Red, blue, and yellow are the three primary colours. Purple, green, and orange are the three secondary colours. Between the six there are six more valid tertiary colours including yellowish green (chartreuse) and reddish purple (mauve). If you look at a colour wheel they are direct opposites, perfectly complementary. Mauve understandably causes confusion because our culture treats it as purple, but in fact it's the tertiary colour between purple and red. It's a cool red, but it is closer to red than orange, a secondary colour, which sometimes gets accepted as "red" in the same circumstances where mauve is not. When people insist on following the rules about colour but do not trouble themselves to learn the tertiary colours, I just smack my forehead, then replace the hand with a camera and keep shooting.
But stepping off my soapbox... To make things more difficult, our cameras often have trouble recognizing the colours correctly, especially yellows and reds. In this shot it was necessary to slide yellow towards green to reproduce the natural colour of the flowers. Probably the Canon EOS RP would have done better than the smartphone with this.
Aren't these complementary colours beautiful?
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 93/365
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A year in pictures ~ Week 4 of 52, Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables
Explore #345
My subject this week is such a colourful fruit, that I decided that it would have been unnecessary to subject it to any post processing warp, so instead I set out to capture its natural vibrance and energy. I had a concept based on the way we sometimes cut them open, and thought of the pieces flying apart in a kind of orange explosion. To simplify this and preserve the beauty of the cut surfaces, I opted for four large pieces and arranged them in a 3D scatter sculpture (I made that term up of course :D). I considered various backgrounds, but I kept coming back to blue, the complementary colour to orange. I also thought it would work to create a graduated backdrop, in my head at least it reminds me of the sky in the sunshine regions with which we associate these citrus fruits.
ISO100 f4 @1/50s. Flash on white background through blue gel & snoot, softbox camera left with reflector camera right to fill dark areas.
I've been aware in the last few weeks that the oranges that I've been getting have been absolutely at their best. They're one of those fruits that we get year-round these days, but the majority of times they are a little disappointing, either too dry or very tasteless. Those that are in the stores just now are juicy, sweet, tasty and best of all super-zangy (probably another made up word ;-). When you eat a good one, it's a blissful experience, and there's a relief associated with knowing that the memory of the last time you had one like it wasn't just a rose tinted nostalgia, but something to be repeated again and again at the right time of year. We all know the benefits of these wonderful fruits, so I'm not going to bore anyone with the list of vitamins, they're tasty enough in their own right to merit a place on everyone's fruit bowl, regardless of their healthy credentials.
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I hated raw carrots when I was a kid. They tasted so bland. It wasn't till after I moved to Montreal and started to hang out with some anarchists and tried some organically grown carrots that I acquired a taste for them. Organic carrots are bloody sweet.
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Thank you Sarah and Brian of Grange Hollow Gardens & Nursery for coming to the Owen Sound farmers’ market. I’ll be planting these again next year.
Foto scattata per l' Happy Bokeh Wednesday del gruppo IGP <3
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