Posts Tagged ‘colors’
Geranium
Last week I got away from the snow and ice and visited a greenhouse. The complementary colors of the red petals and green foliage of this geranium were hard to resist:
Not an ordinary greenhouse, its an historic one dating back to around 1800. There are beautiful camellias, orchids, and a huge bougainvillea. Unfortunately the orchids [...]
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Tags: colors, complementary colors, Flowers, Macro, red
Dame’s Rocket
A prolific mustard family flower that puts splashes of white, pink, and purple in the landscape:
I indulged myself in some out of focus color by shooting through a cluster of the flowers…
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Tags: art, colors, Flowers, wildflowers
Grape Hyacinth
A garden flower from a week or two back – spring is glorious, I just can’t keep up with it:
A common flower, but I thought I’d try an interesting angle at close range, and use a neighboring flower the background.
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Tags: art, colors, Flowers, Photography
Water
Another watery image with wintery colors. This one focuses on the swirling patterns on the surface of the water, something the camera sees better than the eye:
Just a bit of detail, this is a motion study with color from a blue sky morning.
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Tags: art, colors, Nature, Photography, Photos, water
Complementary colors
This image is a case where I saw the background first and then looked for a subject. I found a bank of purple flowers (Dame’s Rocket) I knew I had the color material for an interesting, saturated background. The subject I had in this location was a modest one, yellow mustard flowers:
After I took this [...]
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Tags: colors, complementary colors, Flowers, Macro
Seeing red…
I’ve been posting pictures with pretty somber colors. Time for a bright garden flower:
I used closer foreground flowers and a wide-open 300mm lens to get wash of red in the lower left.
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Tags: colors, complementary colors, Flowers
Swaying on a stem
Finding a butterfly is many cases a chance encounter – they fly here and there, and if you’re lucky, you’ll bump into one. That’s the way it is with many big, far-ranging butterflies such as monarchs, tiger swallowtails, and painted ladies. Other butterflies are homebodies and tend to stay in the same area, such as [...]
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Tags: Butterflies, colors, Macro
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