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Macro Monday: #ComplementaryColours
Actually I wanted to do something with yellow and purple or blue for "Complementary Colours" (and why do I always end up writing "contemporary" or "contemplating" when I mean complementary?). The beautiful blue and yellow iris bouquet (something that has both colours in it!) in the flowerpot on the living room table, for instance, would have been perfect. But then I spotted this happy little red radish on my Sunday breakfast table, smiling at me broadly. "You lookin' for me?", it seemed to ask. "Yes, you do! I know it! Forget about those perfect iris blossoms. Forget about yellow and purple. Combine me with that grass mat, and you've got 80 percent complementemporaring colours, too. Plus, I've got that certain something, the X factor, that 'je ne sais quoi', haven't I?!?" "And what could that be?", I asked. "That toothless, toothpaste-defying smile, maybe? Hair - or what is that - in your face? That weird winking expression with only one eye open? Wait a minute, eye? What eye? You're a radish. Radishes don't have eyes. Do you think people will enjoy looking at you?", I grumbled, sensing that all my hopes of coming up with some other colour combination than the obvious red and green, and something with both colours in it on top of that, would be dashed. Dashed by a tiny, cheeky, ugly duckling type of radish. Because of pareidolia. A sign stimulus. My sign stimulus. "The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music" (Wikipedia), and immediately grab the camera and shoot. After all, it smiled at me. All the time. "But don't expect me to give you a name!", I snapped, and thought to myself "And I'll eat you after the photoshoot." "You aren't exactly a morning person, are you?", the little radish remarked wryly, and its smile got even broader. I'm sure it could read my mind.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a great August week ahead!
Eigentlich wollte ich ja was mit Gelb und Lila machen. Eine der hübschen Iris-Blüten in der Vase auf dem Wohnzimmertisch z. B., gelb-violette Blüten, mit nur einem feinen weißen Streifen (80 Prozent!), perfekt. Aber dann lachte mich beim Sonntagsfrühstück dieses Radieschen an. Blinzelte mir frech zu, als wollte es sagen: "Hast Du nach mir gesucht? Klar hast Du. Vergiss die Blumen. 80 Prozent Komplementärfarben? Hast Du bei mir auch. Und dann noch mein unschlagbares Lächeln. Mein Siegerlächeln!" Sein Grinsen wurde breiter. "Ach ja?", grummelte ich. "Du meinst wohl 'Das zahnloseste Lächeln seit es Zahnpasta gibt'. Und was ist das da in Deinem Gesicht? Haare? Findest Du Dich etwa attraktiv? Und dann dieses Blinzeln, ein Auge zu, das andere offen? Und überhaupt 'Auge'. Du bist ein Radieschen, Du hast keine 'Augen', nicht mal eins. Ich mach' die Blumen!" Aber da wusste ich schon, dass Es gewonnen hatte. Der Schlüsselreiz, nein, mein Schlüsselreiz: Pareidolie. Das "Phänomen, in Dingen und Mustern vermeintliche Gesichter und vertraute Wesen oder Gegenstände zu erkennen" (Wikipedia). Es hatte mich an der Angel. Als hätte Es meine Gedanken gelesen, wurde sein breites Grinsen noch ein bisschen breiter, fast vermeinte ich, ein diabolisches Lachen zu hören. "Aber glaub' bloß nicht, dass ich Dir auch noch einen Namen gebe. Und nach dem Fotoshooting wirst Du verspeist!" "Du bist aber ein echter Morgenmuffel, was?", lachte es. Das Siegerlachen.
Habt eine schöne Augustwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Saturday Self Challenge: Half
52 in 2024: Complementary colours
Today: 38/100
Just a half a kiwi-fruit this week, photographed on red cardboard for contrast. Kiwi-fruit have been very expensive this year, and last week finally seemed to come down in price a little. Yummy.
This Image is of the carry bag of my camping kitchen. I really liked the colors and the texture.
HMM! Everyone!
Viburnum lantanoides is an attractive spring-flowering shrub of the forest understorey that produces edible berries.
Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.
Today's Macro Mondays theme is two opposite colours which I've achieved with red and green. I grabbed a small unripe apple off the tree in the front garden and some inedible cherries off the tree next to it, without realising I had picked up a tiny spider too. I set them down on a plate, with the spider taking up a perfect pose. I quickly took my first shot. It's a lousy pic. And then the spider took off fast as if embarrassed to feature in such a poor image. I couldn't catch him after that so I didn't get a chance to adjust things and make it a better picture.
Macro Mondays theme : Complementary colors
This “Aster de Chine” (China Aster) includes two complementary colors: Purple and Yellow. There are actually several varieties of “Aster de Chine” , mainly obtained through hybridization. The result is a wide array of colors. They are blooming from mid-August to the end of autumn.
The flower was already smaller than 3” in diameter but I decided to crop it to show more of the two complementary colors. Hope you will like it!
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments
Geranien treiben das Spiel mit der Komplementärfarbe genial. Sind die Blüten eher hell, dann ist auch das Grün der Blätter heller.
I put white adhesive lettering on each plastic cup. After many shots, I liked the white gab in between. For two reasons; the light in between bounced the opposite colours onto the lettering as well as soften the "vibration" of color when they were right next to each other. Although, I must say I DID like the new "purple/magenta" that was created by the DOF. HMM!
Thank you ADMIN for the challenge, I really enjoyed this one!
NELL'OTTIMISMO C'E' LA MAGIA,NEL PESSIMISMO NON C'E' NULLA.
In EXPLORE il 28/08/2025 al n. 476 (The Color Blue theme)
Immagine realizzata con lo smartphone HUAWEI MATE 20 PRO.
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For WAH who are visiting sofas
and the week 43 theme - complementary colours
Taken for group 'Macro Mondays' theme 'Complementary Colours'.
This is a Calendula flower laid on a plastic A4 divider. It's taken in natural light with gold card behind and to the left with LED lights used to vary the background colour.
Explore August 4th 2019 #271
An intense Icelandic Poppy, perhaps enhanced by the blue Forget-Me-Nots.
Seen in the formal beds at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, where the spring planting of orange flowers with touches of their complementary blue is inspired by Chevreul’s colour theory, in particular his law of simultaneous contrast - that two juxtaposed hues will be perceived as the most different possible when the brain adds to a perceived hue a little of the complementary of the juxtaposed hue.
A6600 + Venus Optics Laowa CF 65mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2x ( E-mount, APS-C)
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For Macro Mondays theme Complementary Colours
Japanese Maple
Fuji X-T2 XF80mm F2.8
f11 | 1/60sec | ISO640
Can't beat Blue and Orange together...
The rising sun lighting up the Inner Harbour at Mevagissey, Cornwall. October 2017.
Fuji X-T2, XF23/1.4, 1/125th sec at f/8, ISO 400