tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22977193609396840402024-03-13T01:25:01.499+00:00In Terms of Colour...en route with the camera<br>
by VyalaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-12948040414166300262011-10-30T18:00:00.001+00:002016-04-12T17:38:29.276+01:00The Colours on my BalconyIt's this time of the year which I like when the sun is shining - but only then. The colours of nature are exploding once more - so many different shades which try to compete.<br />
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This year I decided to do something about the greys which are usually dominant on my balcony at this point and I planted Chrysanthemum in every corner. Now it looks like this:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(all photos <span style="font-style: italic;">©VyalaArts)</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-5951156314610866282011-03-21T19:29:00.001+00:002011-03-21T19:30:37.042+00:00Colour Feast continues: Green man-made and natural CrystalsIt is time to continue the colour series: <span style="color: #6aa84f;">GREEN</span>. I want you to drool over these lovely green colours that nature has created in crystals and also some man-made crystals which can be equally inspirational. These green shades make me want to take my brushes immediately and go to the easel to create something with these shades or imagine a lake, hidden deep in the forests, with waters just as these greens - wouldn't it be devine to dive into those?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>(image sources:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>diamondfireglass.com/crystals, minedirect.com<br />
worldofrockhounds.com,blog.hmns.org<br />
multiaxes.net, roses-and-teacups.com<br />
mineralman.net, everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com<br />
entertainment.webshots.com, lh6.ggpht.com<br />
arkadiancollection.com, crystal-treasure.com<br />
marinmineral.com, ncpedia.org<br />
mysticmerchant.com, dave.ucsc.edu<br />
marblekingusa.com, glasscaress.com<br />
triz-beadingmania.blogspot.com)</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-29916613025003186642011-03-15T18:09:00.001+00:002011-03-15T18:11:46.214+00:00Spring has arrived and the Colours come back...<div style="text-align: left;">These are pics I shot yesterday and today. Spring has finally arrived and with it some lovely colours....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<blockquote><i>"In British English and American English show business lexicon, the green room is that space in a theatre, a studio, or a similar venue, which accommodates performers or speakers not yet required on stage. The green room functions as a waiting room, or as a touch-up lounge so that a performer need not return to wardrobe or to the dressing room, while remaining immediately available for a call to the stage. The origin of the term is often attributed to such an area historically being painted green, yet the modern "green room" is often not green at all.</i><i>The specific origin of the term is lost to history, which has led to many imaginative theories and claims. One story is that London's Blackfriars Theatre (1599) included a room behind the scenes; this room happened to be painted green; here the actors waited to go on stage; and it was called "the green room." Some English theatres contained several green rooms, each ranked according to the status and the salary of the actor: one could be fined for using a green room above one's station </i><br />
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<i>In addition to the preceding explanations, the term <b>green room</b> has also been attributed to numerous alternative folk etymologies, including the following" </i>(I picked only a few which I found to be especially funny) (from Wikipedia):</blockquote><ul><li>Many actors experience nervous anxiety before a performance and one of the symptoms of nervousness is nausea. As a person who feels neauseous is often said to look "green", so the "Green Room" is the place where the nervous actors wait...</li>
</ul><ul><li>Some studies state that the green room was originally called the retaining room. The ensemble of a production would wait there for their appearance onstage, listening to the performance of the principal actors and critiquing their acting. When made aware of this practice, the leads began to call the retaining room the green room, mocking the (green) envy of these actors.</li>
</ul><ul><li>According to one theory, long before modern makeup was invented the actors had to apply makeup before a show and allow it to set up or cure before performing. Until the makeup was cured, it was <i>green</i> and people were advised to sit quietly in the <i>green room</i> until such time as the makeup was stable enough for performing. Uncured makeup is gone, but the green room lives on.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In Shakespearean theatre actors would prepare for their performances in a room filled with plants and shrubs. It was believed that the moisture in the topiary was beneficial to the actors' voices. Thus the green room may refer to the green plants in this stage preparation area.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In English theatres, a green floor-cloth was traditionally spread on the stage for tragedies. During the Restoration, when virtually all performances were comedies, the green floor-cloth for tragedies was stored in the actors' waiting room and used to deaden their footsteps so the sound of pacing actors would not disturb the performance. As tragedies were rarely performed, the green floor cloth became a routine fixture of the actors' lounge and the room became known as the green room.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In some theatre companies, the term <b>green room</b> also refers to the director's critique session held after a rehearsal or performance, since it is often held in the <i>green room</i>. This session is used for a pep talk, bonding among actors, and/or warmup exercises.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Green room is also a term for a room where plants are grown as the windows are made of glass, making it a perfect habitat for plants.</li>
</ul><ul><li>In the White House, the Green Room is one of three state parlors located on the state floor, it is traditionally decorated in green. (from Wikipedia)</li>
</ul>But there are of course also green rooms which ARE designed in green shades and hues. Amazingly quite a lot of them although there hasn't been a single green hue nominated by Pantone since 2000 as colour of the year.<br />
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The choices from the fashion reports were different. There you could find a <i>"vibrant green"</i> and <i>"kelp"</i>, the latter being rather a "khaki" green in the spring report of 2005. In the spring report of 2006 there was a <i>"lily green"</i> in their palette, in the fall report of 2007 appeared 2 green hues again: a <i>"shale green"</i> and a <i>"green moss"</i>. In the spring report of 2008 appeared a <i>"golden olive"</i> and a <i>"daiquiri green"</i>. In the fall report of 2008 Pantone said about <i>"glady shade"</i> that it delivererd a <i>"natural elegance to the fall palette. Taking green in an interesting direction with its true green characteristics, this hue is a departure from greens of seasons past, which have had distinctively yellow undertones."</i> In 2009 we suddenly had 3 green hues: <i>"lucite green"</i>, <i>"dark citron"</i> and <i>"vibrant green"</i> again. This year's green hues are <i>"peapod"</i> for spring and <i>"cedar"</i> for fall.<br />
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So these are a lot of green hues for fashion. And there are a lot for room decorating which was really a surprise for me as I thought that green is not really a very common colour for interior design. But I was wrong.<br />
The various examples of interior design with green are not meant completely serious - so please consider this collection with a little tongue-in-cheek...<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~</span></i></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-78423617156862460352011-02-27T11:51:00.004+00:002011-03-04T18:50:26.303+00:00What is Green?I know - I am far behind my posts again. But I have some excuses. As I did not want to throw in just some meaningless words I need to find some time in between my other work to do some research and write about some things which might be of interest for you.<br />
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I want to continue with the series about the colour green. Let's go a bit into technical details i.e. into the rules of mixing colour and how the human vision works:<br />
<blockquote>"Allegedly the physical world is achromatic. The human being can perceive light of various lengths between 400 and 700 nanometers as colours.Within the retina of the human eye there are colour sensitive photoreceptors in 3 different types. They are sensitive to 3 different wavelengths of the light, i.e. for short-wave, middle-wave and long-wave light. Short-wave light we see as <span style="color: blue;">blue</span>, middle-wave light as <span style="color: lime;">green</span> and long-wave light as <span style="color: red;">red</span>.<br />
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If the light is composed from two different wavelengths we will see <span style="color: cyan;">cyan </span>if the combination consists of short-wave and middle-wave light, <span style="color: yellow;">yellow </span>if we see a combination of middle-wave and long-wave light and <span style="color: magenta;">magenta </span>when the light is a mixture of long-wave and short-wave light. We will see <span style="color: white;">white </span>when all three wave-lengths are combined in equal parts and intensity. If no electromagnetic waves of the colour spectrum strikes the photoreceptors of the human eye (no light) we will see <span style="color: black;">black</span>. <br />
This means the human eye has a maximum of 8 different extreme colour perceptions. They are the cornerstones and are therefore called the elementary colours."<br />
<i>(translated from<a href="http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/%7Ecrueger/farbe/farb-wahr.html"> http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~crueger/farbe/farb-wahr.html</a>)</i></blockquote>Red, yellow and blue make up the primary colours in a painter's colour wheel. This system, RYB is used in art and art related areas and was the prequel of the modern scientific colour theory.<br />
But painters have always used more than the 3 primary colours and used green as the fourth primary although it is mixed from yellow and blue. Why is this so?<br />
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There are 2 major principles for mixing colours: <i>additive mixing</i> of colours and <i>subtractive mixing</i> of colours.When you use additive mixing you normally use light for mixing colours which are <span style="color: red;">red</span>, <span style="color: lime;">green </span>and <span style="color: blue;">blue</span>. When <i>no</i> colours are showing the result is black - when <i>all </i>colours are used the result would be <span style="color: white;">white</span>. <span style="color: red;">Red </span>and <span style="color: lime;">green</span> create <span style="color: yellow;">yellow</span>, <span style="color: red;">red </span>and <span style="color: blue;">blue </span>would turn into <span style="color: magenta;">magenta</span>. Additive mixing of colours is used in television and computer monitors.<br />
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The second principle of mixing colours is called <i>subtractive mixing</i>.<br />
<blockquote><i>"Subtractive mixing is done by selectively removing certain colors, for instance with optical filters. The three primary colors in subtractive mixing are yellow, magenta, and cyan. In subtractive mixing of color, the absence of color is white and the presence of all three primary colors is black. In subtractive mixing of colors, the secondary colors are the same as the primary colors from additive mixing, and vice versa. Subtractive mixing is used to create a variety of colors when printing on paper by combining a small number of ink colors, and also when painting." (after Wikipedia)</i></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rhucl_2K1jY/TWqXTwYRdjI/AAAAAAAAHZ4/tmz6L6uGmT0/s1600/farbsub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rhucl_2K1jY/TWqXTwYRdjI/AAAAAAAAHZ4/tmz6L6uGmT0/s1600/farbsub.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(original image source: <a href="http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/%7Ecrueger/farbe/farb-misch.html">http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~crueger/farbe/farb-misch.html</a>)</span></i></div><br />
Now comes the "paradox":<br />
Additive colour mixing, f.e. <span style="color: red;">red </span>and <span style="color: lime;">green </span>combined result in <span style="color: yellow;">yellow</span>, or <span style="color: blue;">blue</span>, <span style="color: red;">red </span>and <span style="color: lime;">green </span>making <span style="color: white;">white</span> seems to fight against the human common sense i.e. vision because anyone knows that if you mix <span style="color: yellow;">yellow </span>and <span style="color: blue;">blue </span>paint you will receive a <span style="color: lime;">green </span>paint! The reason for this is that the wavelengths of light that reach the eye are often selected through more intuitive subtractive processes: for example, <span style="color: cyan;">cyan </span>paint appears to our eye as <span style="color: cyan;">cyan </span>because it absorbs <span style="color: red;">red</span><span style="color: red;"> </span>wavelengths, and a <span style="color: yellow;">yellow </span>paint appears <span style="color: yellow;">yellow </span>because it absorbs <span style="color: blue;">blue</span> wavelengths. But when <span style="color: white;">white </span>light falls on a combination of <span style="color: cyan;">cyan </span>and <span style="color: yellow;">yellow</span>, then, both <span style="color: red;">red </span>and <span style="color: blue;">blue</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span>are absorbed, and <span style="color: lime;">green </span>is reflected to the eye. Complicated - isn't it?<br />
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One fact cannot be denied though: most painters include colours in their palettes which cannot be mixed from yellow, red, and blue paints, and thus do not fit within the RYB colour model. Really colourful greens, cyans, and magentas are impossible to mix, because red, yellow, and blue are not well-spaced around a perceptually uniform colour wheel <i>(acc. to Wikipedia). </i><br />
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Let's look at some greens from the HTML chart codes and the appropriate names. These make clear that the naming of certain colours is really difficult and so is the determination if you don't have the codes available. The following colour fields also make clear that these colour shades and tints cannot be mixed as paints from yellow and blue paints in order to achieve the same values and brilliance. It is just not that simple.<br />
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If you look art the following image you will realize that actually "<span style="color: seagreen;">seagreen</span>" appears much darker than the "<span style="color: darkseagreen;">dark seagreen</span>". How can this happen other than being a mistake? I really don't know!<br />
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The following lighter shades of green do have a larger part of yellow - as you can easily see...<br />
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...while the second chart of the lighter versions of greens do contain more blues. Also here it seems hardly understandable why the value of the "<span style="color: lightseagreen;">light seagreen</span>" seems to be higher than the "<span style="color: darkseagreen;">dark seagreen</span>". Strange isn't it? The only explanation I have for this is that the eye perceives something different than a photometer does.<br />
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Here is another chart where you can see that there are some colours included in the "greens" that I personally would not count into this group but give them a separate grouping: the teals, aquas and turquoises. <br />
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Colours are an equally fascinating and difficult subject. Even if I work each day with colours as a painter I use them mostly in a very "emotional" way, hardly with the eye of a scientist. Nevertheless it helps a lot if you know at least some principles about colours in order to be able to find the right "material" for your own work, whether you are an artist, designer or work in any other colour related profession...<br />
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</div><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color#cite_note-23"><br />
</a></sup>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-40015787994370133472011-01-31T21:09:00.001+00:002011-01-31T21:13:07.028+00:00What I miss most: the Colour GreenIt is so much fun to research about colours - so what to choose next? I thought about what I would like to see at the moment i.e. what I miss most in winter times such as these when I look outside the window: there is no <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>, <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>, <span style="color: #6aa84f;">GREEEEEN</span>. I miss <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>.<br />
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The word <i style="color: #6aa84f;">green</i> is closely related to the Old English verb <i>growan</i>, “to grow”. It is used to describe plants or the ocean. So the colour <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span> is the colour of life, the colour of the plants and of springtime and as such it symbolizes hope and immortality. In China the colour <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span> represents the female Yin, the passive, receiving principle.<br />
<blockquote><i>"The color green is the color of balance and harmony. From a color psychology perspective, it is the great balancer of the heart and the emotions, creating equilibrium between the head and the heart. </i><br />
<i>From a meaning of colors perspective, green is also the color of growth, the color of spring, of renewal and rebirth. It renews and restores depleted energy. It is the sanctuary away from the stresses of modern living, restoring us back to a sense of well being. This is why there is so much of this relaxing color on the earth, and why we need to keep it that way.</i><br />
<i>The color green is an emotionally positive color, giving us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others unconditionally.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Green promotes a love of nature, and a love of family, friends, pets and the home. It is the color of the garden lover, the home lover and the good host. </i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Green is the color of prosperity and abundance, of finance and material wealth. It relates to the business world, to real estate and property. Prosperity gives a feeling of safety to green." (from <a href="http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/index.html">Color Psychology</a>)</i>.</blockquote>But there are also negative aspects of the colour <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span> such as: <br />
the color <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>can be possessive and materialistic. Think of the common phrase "s/he was green with envy - a very negative reaction to the color <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>. <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green </span>is a color that apparently encourages us to want to own things, to collect and possess. It stands for money. Sometimes it can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous, or sick. One of my art works is a silk scroll that depicts one of the 7 deadly sins: it is called <b style="color: #eeeeee;"><i>Greed</i></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TUU06kCFduI/AAAAAAAAHWI/y1J53Tz5a18/s1600/greed1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TUU06kCFduI/AAAAAAAAHWI/y1J53Tz5a18/s640/greed1.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Greed"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>49" x 29", silk scroll </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic;">©Petra Voegtle</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>An art critic once described the background of this silk scroll so aptly as "sickly green" which expressed exactly what I intented.<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green </span>encourages materialism.<br />
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On the other side the phrase "we go <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>"´is related to the new environmental understanding and means something completely different. "<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green </span>energy", "<span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>agriculture", "<span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>production" etc. mean something completely different and is rather directed to less spending and wasting. So the colour <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>apparently seems to inhabit some paradoxa.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green </span>is a combination of yellow and blue, and thus the color <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>encompasses the mental clarity and optimism of yellow with the emotional calm and insight of blue, inspiring hope and a generosity of spirit not available from other colors.So <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green </span>is considered to be rather a positive colour than negative.<br />
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What is really interesting is, how other languages treat the colour <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>. They simply have no definition or word for it:<br />
<blockquote>"Quite a number of languages from countries, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black, while there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green. Also, some languages treat light (often greenish) blue and dark blue as separate colours, rather than different variations of blue, while English does not.<br />
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According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 study <i>Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution</i>, distinct terms for brown, purple, pink, orange and grey will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue. In their account of the development of colour terms the first terms to emerge are those for white/black (or light/dark), red and green/yellow.<br />
Many languages do not have separate terms for blue and green, instead using a cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this cover term is sometimes called <i>grue</i> in English). For example, in Vietnamese both tree leaves and the sky are <i>xanh</i> (to distinguish, one may use <i>xanh lá cây</i> "leaf grue" for green and <i>xanh dương</i> "ocean grue" for blue). In the Thai language, <span lang="th">เขียว</span> (khiaw) means green except when referring to the sky or the sea, when it means blue; <span lang="th">เขียวชอุ่ม</span> (khiaw cha-um), <span lang="th">เขียวขจี</span> (khiaw khachi), and <span lang="th">เขียวแปร๊ด</span> (khiaw praed) have all meant either intense blue or garish green. <br />
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Chinese has a word (<i>qīng</i>) that can refer to both, though it also has separate words for blue (<i>lán</i>) and green (<i>lǜ</i>). The Korean word (<i>pureuda</i>) can mean either green or blue. In Japanese, the word for blue (<i>ao</i>) is often used for colors that English speakers would refer to as green, such as the color of a traffic signal meaning "go". Some Nguni languages of southern Africa, including Tswana utilize the same word for blue and green. In traditional Welsh (and related Celtic languages), <i>glas</i> could refer to blue but also to certain shades of green and grey; however, modern Welsh is restricting <i>glas</i> to blue and using <i>gwyrdd</i> for green and <i>llwyd</i> for grey. Similarly, in Irish, <i>glas</i> can mean various shades of green and grey (like the sea), while <i>liath</i> is grey proper (like a horse). In Old Norse the word <i>blå</i> was also used to describe black (and the common word for people of African descent was thus <i>blåmenn</i> 'blue/black men'). In Swedish, <i>blå</i>, the modern word for blue, was used this way until the early 20th century." (after Wikipedia)</blockquote>So no matter what you call green who could deny that the following <span style="color: #6aa84f;">greens </span>(in our language) are reviving for the eye and soothe our soul?<br />
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Who would not love all these hues and shades of green??? Btw - the Easter bunny is already waiting...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(all photos <span style="font-style: italic;">©Petra Voegtle)</span></i></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-16047723606167680202011-01-15T21:55:00.001+00:002011-01-15T21:59:02.183+00:00These are the Colours I am missing now...It is only midth of January but I am really already fed up with winter. What I hate most is the dark days when the sky is all clouded and it is rainy. You do not want to get out of bed because it is so dark - simply depressing.<br />
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Used in accessories such as cushions and tableware the colour certainly becomes an intriguing design element.<br />
Rooms designed in all kinds of purple hues and shades make a strong statement although sometimes a bit less would be better - not?<br />
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Although I do not use the colour purple very much in my art work you still can find a couple of purple splotches in my paintings. I think it is time to create some more... <br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-71496060684140812282011-01-05T21:53:00.000+00:002011-01-08T15:25:50.269+00:00The Purple Feast continues - natural and man-made Crystals<div style="text-align: left;">I have a great love for all sorts of crystals - be it real ones from the mineral section or glass. Like a kid I am somehow fascinated by everything that is transparent and actually lives from light. And so the idea was born to do some research on purple crystals etc. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is what I found - a lovely collection of transparent and shiny little things in various shades of purple - which I find could be highly inspirational for any creative person: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">~</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-80991051155657569472011-01-02T19:07:00.006+00:002011-01-08T15:25:50.279+00:00Nature's Purple Feast - Blooms and BlossomsAfter so many colour codes and colour wheels etc. I think it is time to concentrate on the natural purples you can find in blooms and blossoms...<br />
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Some examples for <b>deep purple</b>:<br />
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Examples for <b>medium purple</b>:<br />
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Here are some examples for the <b>Munsell purple</b>:<br />
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And here comes the <b>royal purple</b>:<br />
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Here is another example for the <b>x11 purple</b>:<br />
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And finally some examples for the<b> tyrian purple</b>:<br />
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Of course nearly every bloom of these examples contains various hues and shades of purple. This feast of colours is Mother Nature's treasure, which never ceases to be the largest well of inspirational colour creations...<br />
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<b style="color: #66023c;"><i>Purple </i></b>- the colour - lies between <b style="color: red;">red </b>and <b><span style="color: blue;">blue</span></b>. Depending on the quantity of pigments, its tints and shades, it either tends to the range of violets or the range of magentas and pinks.<br />
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In history the original purple<b style="color: #66023c;"><i> </i></b>was in fact <b style="color: #66023c;"><i>Tyrian Purple</i></b>, a colour which was extracted from sea snails. The first people who used this process were the ancient Phoenicians.<br />
Tyrian purple was extremely expensive. Therefore it was no wonder that only the clergy and the royalty could afford to use this in their textiles. Additionally early sumptuary laws dictated and forbade the use of purple<i style="color: #66023c;"><b> </b></i>dyed textiles which became status symbols for anyone other than it was destined for. In Byzantium the production of shellfish purple<b style="color: #66023c;"><i> </i></b>was tightly controlled and even subsidized by the imperial court, which restricted its use for the colouring of silks for imperial use <i>(after Wikipedia)</i>.<br />
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Recently, the archaeological discovery of substantial numbers of Murex shells on Crete suggests that the Minoans may have pioneered the extraction of Imperial purple centuries before the Phoenicians. Dating from collocated pottery suggests the dye may have been produced during the Middle Minoan period in the 20th–18th century BC <i>(after Wikipedia)</i>.<br />
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<b style="color: #66023c;"><i>Purple </i></b>is associated with power, both earthly and spiritual. In healing, purple is used for mental disorders and also for becoming one with Spirit. In the aura purple signifies higher spiritual development. Purple is the color of the imagination. It can be creative and individual or immature and impractical. Following are some quotations about the psychological impact of purple:<br />
<blockquote>"The color purple relates to the imagination and spirituality. It stimulates the imagination and inspires high ideals. It is an introspective color, allowing us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts." <br />
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"While the violet is not quite as intense as purple, its essence is similar. Generally the names are interchangeable and the meaning of the colors is similar. Both contain the energy and strength of red with the spirituality and integrity of blue. This is the union of body and soul creating a balance between our physical and our spiritual energies. <br />
Purple or violet assists those who seek the meaning of life and spiritual fulfillment - it expands our awareness, connecting us to a higher consciousness. For this reason it is associated with transformation of the soul and the philosophers of the world are often attracted to it."<br />
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"In the meaning of colors, purple and violet represent the future, the imagination and dreams, while spiritually calming the emotions. They inspire and enhance psychic ability and spiritual enlightenment, while, at the same time, keeping us grounded."<br />
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"From a color psychology perspective, purple and violet promote harmony of the mind and the emotions, contributing to mental balance and stability, peace of mind, a link between the spiritual and the physical worlds, between thought and activity. Violet and purple support the practice of meditation."<br />
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"The color purple is specifically associated with royalty and the nobility, creating an impression of luxury, wealth and extravagance. <br />
Purple has power. It has a richness and quality to it that demands respect. Purple is ambitious and self-assured, the leader.<br />
Too much of the color purple can promote or aggravate depression in some. It is one color that should be used extremely carefully and in small amounts by those who are vulnerable to these depressed states."<br />
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"<b><i>Positive sides</i></b> include unusual and individual, creative and inventive, psychic and intuitive, humanitarian, selfless and unlimited, mystery, fantasy and the future. <br />
<b><i>Negative sides</i></b> include immaturity, being impractical, cynical and aloof, pompous and arrogant, fraudulent and corrupt, delusions of grandeur and the social climber."<i> (after <a href="http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-purple.html">http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-purple.html</a>)</i></blockquote>Here are the two basic colour blocks of purple - one dark, one lighter, different hues and values:<br />
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Another diagram of the purple range is this one:<br />
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You will realize that I excluded the lighter hues of this diagram in the above purple range because I feel that these belong to other hues and shades. <span style="color: #dfa7e4;">DFA7E4</span> f.e. you would not call "purple" as standing alone colour - would you - but rather "plum".<br />
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(Btw - <span style="color: #9f00c5;">Munsell purple</span> is named after the Munsell colour system. And the <span style="color: #a020f0;">X11 purple</span> comes from the first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator which used the X11 colors as the basis for the Web colors list, as both were originally X applications - <i>see Wikipedia</i>).<br />
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Here is a chart of the basic purples via <a href="http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/purplechart.asp"><i>http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/purplechart.asp</i></a>)<br />
<h2 align="center">Basic Purples</h2><table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td width="150">Color</td> <td>Hex</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>Co#</td> <td>Description</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#800080" width="150"></td> <td>800080</td> <td>128,0,128</td> <td>1</td> <td>Deep Purple</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#330033" width="150"></td> <td>330033</td> <td>51,0,51</td> <td>2</td> <td>Very dark purple</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#6633cc" width="150"></td> <td>6633CC</td> <td>102,51,204</td> <td>3</td> <td>Purple</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#663399" width="150"></td> <td>663399</td> <td>102,51,153</td> <td>4</td> <td>Purple</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#6600cc" width="150"></td> <td>6600CC</td> <td>102,0,204</td> <td>5</td> <td>Dark Purple-blue</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#660099" width="150"></td> <td>660099</td> <td>102,0,153</td> <td>6</td> <td>Royal Purple</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#9966cc" width="150"></td> <td>9966CC</td> <td>153,102,204</td> <td>7</td> <td>Lavender</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#9900ff" width="150"></td> <td>9900FF</td> <td>153,0,255</td> <td>8</td> <td>Periwinkle</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff00ff" width="150"></td> <td>FF00FF</td> <td>255,0,255</td> <td>9</td> <td>Pink / Fuscia</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#9999cc" width="150"></td> <td>9999CC</td> <td>153,153,204</td> <td>10</td> <td>Purple-gray</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#cc99ff" width="150"></td> <td>CC99FF</td> <td>204,153,255</td> <td>11</td> <td>Lilac</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#cc99cc" width="150"></td> <td>CC99CC</td> <td>204,153,204</td> <td>12</td> <td>Light Plum </td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#b030d8" width="150"></td> <td>B030D8</td> <td>176,48,216</td> <td></td> <td>Orchid</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">(diagram from <a href="http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/purplechart.asp"><i>http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/purplechart.asp</i></a>)</div><br />
Interesting are also the psychological views on the variations of purple (the artificial ones - because there is a big difference between natural and artificial/HTML colours):<br />
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<i><b>Variations of the Color</b> <b style="color: #e0b0ff;">Purple/VioletMauve</b>: </i> Mauve helps us to make the best choices and decisions; it is concerned for justice to be done and always does the right thing. On the other hand it can indicate a degree of commonness, the social climber aspiring to higher ideals.<br />
<i><b style="color: lavender;">Lavender:</b> </i>Lavender is attracted to beautiful things. It has a fragility, sensitivity and vulnerability to it.<br />
<b style="color: #c8a2c8;"><i>Lilac:</i></b> Lilac (or light purple) implies immaturity, superficiality and youthfulness. It is extroverted and enthusiastic, inspiring glamour, romance and vanity.<br />
<i style="color: #9966cc;"><b>Amethyst</b>:</i> A mystical color, amethyst opens intuitive channels. It protects the vulnerable and assists the humanitarian. It is the color of the evolved soul.<br />
<i><b style="color: plum;">Plum</b>:</i> An old-fashioned color, plum is honorable and linked to family traditions. It is also prudish and narrow-minded, always preaching at you. <br />
<i><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Dark Purple</span></b>: </i>Dark purple is related to higher spiritual attainment. A powerful color, it can also indicate arrogance and ruthlessness." <i>(after <a href="http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-purple.html">http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-purple.html</a>)</i><br />
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Why is this so? Potentially because most people find <i style="color: orange;">orange</i><span style="color: orange;"> </span>being one of the strongest colours at all and therefore fear the domination of this colour that pushes everything else too much into the background. But there are multiple methods to play with the colour <i style="color: orange;">orange </i>and you will see that in the end you'll see some rooms which are warm and comfortable, light and not dominant at all...<br />
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</div>The art work I am creating surprisingly contains quite a lot of orange tones, different values and shades. Hence this is the reason, because I am not consciously a friend of orange myself. Although my palette regularly contains earth colours in subdued shades it also shows quite a few orange splotches, which I find quite interesting:<br />
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The last painting was a complete new experience for me as this is painted in a colour I would normally not use in this pureness...<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">~</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-52448876406945704902010-09-18T21:17:00.006+01:002011-01-08T15:26:38.120+00:00The natural Colour OrangeNow it's time for Mother Nature's colour palette of orange shades and you can judge yourself where you would classify them to <span style="color: red;">red </span>or <span style="color: orange;">orange</span>. Not quite easy sometimes - the more pics you see the more difficult it becomes...<br />
Nonetheless I hope you'll enjoy this firework of orange and red colours and how much more inspiration do you need? <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(click on the photos to enlarge)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TJUYxwA87bI/AAAAAAAAGzA/l8r505tmqJ0/s1600/0804august0103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TJUYxwA87bI/AAAAAAAAGzA/l8r505tmqJ0/s320/0804august0103.jpg" /></a></div> <br />
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When you have to determine colours it becomes quite complicated after a while. The difficulty starts when you have to identify a colour that comes from natural sources. Perception is often undefinable and depends on adjacent colours.<br />
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You would not believe how differential people react to a colour and how they would define it. What is still orange and what is already red, or still yellow? Also it is difficult to find pure colour in natural environments - but let's start with the "easier" ones: the colour codes of the electronic medium - the computer or rather the codes of the HTML language.<br />
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The colour range for the orange (in HTML definition) merely consists only of 3 colours - the 4rth does not belong (or rather supported by description) officially to the oranges as you can see from the name:<br />
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And here it starts already. Depending on your monitor and its settings these colours will appear differently on your computer.<br />
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It is in fact a different hue although at first glance it seems to belong to the same range! But you can check this by looking at your monitor from different angles. Now you see why the determination of a colour is so difficult.<br />
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Here is a nice chart of the Basic Oranges: <br />
<h2 align="center">Basic Oranges</h2><table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td width="150">Color</td> <td>Hex</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>Co#</td> <td>Description</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff9933" width="150"> </td> <td>FF9933</td> <td>255,153,51</td> <td>1</td> <td>Pumpkin</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#cc6600" width="150"> </td> <td>CC6600</td> <td>204,102,0</td> <td>2</td> <td>Sienna / Orange - brown</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#663300" width="150"> </td> <td>663300</td> <td>102,51,0</td> <td>3</td> <td>Dark Chocolate Brown</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff6600" width="150"> </td> <td>FF6600</td> <td>255,102,0</td> <td>4</td> <td>Orange</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#996600" width="150"> </td> <td>996600</td> <td>153,102,0</td> <td>5</td> <td>Golden Brown</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff9900" width="150"> </td> <td>FF9900</td> <td>255,153,0</td> <td>6</td> <td>Light Orange</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#cc9900" width="150"> </td> <td>CC9900</td> <td>204,153,0</td> <td>7</td> <td>Mustard seed</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#cc6633" width="150"> </td> <td>CC6633</td> <td>204,102,51</td> <td>8</td> <td>Brick / Red-brown</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff7c80" width="150"> </td> <td>FF7C80</td> <td>255,124,128</td> <td>9</td> <td>Pink</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ff6633" width="150"> </td> <td>FF6633</td> <td>255,102,51</td> <td>10</td> <td>Tomato soup</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ffcc66" width="150"> </td> <td>FFCC66</td> <td>255,204,102</td> <td>11</td> <td>Light mustard</td> </tr>
<tr align="left" class="White_Table" valign="middle"> <td bgcolor="#ffcc99" width="150"> </td> <td>FFCC99</td> <td>255,204,153</td> <td>12</td> <td>"Flesh"</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><i> (after </i><i><a href="http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/OrangeChart.asp">http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/OrangeChart.asp</a>)</i></div><br />
Now let us find the codes for the following images:<br />
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The colour codes are: <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TFsN9vmuQ1I/AAAAAAAAGrY/K9YusLe2VuQ/s1600/buildings0072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TFsN9vmuQ1I/AAAAAAAAGrY/K9YusLe2VuQ/s400/buildings0072.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TG6lFMJjqdI/AAAAAAAAGuQ/VC7r9cAXAr0/s1600/buildings0072col.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/TG6lFMJjqdI/AAAAAAAAGuQ/VC7r9cAXAr0/s320/buildings0072col.jpg" /></a></div>In the image above we have 4 different hues of orange - indicated by hex code. The 5th colour, represented through #ee1100 apparently is no orange any more although one might identify this colour as an orange hue without knowing the hex code.<br />
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You see - not a single image contains the pure colour code of orange - all images contain different hues of orange. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(all colour palettes have been created with the Color Palette Generator from</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://degraeve.com/">DeGraeve.com</a>)</span></i><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-86739134825010993332010-07-29T17:28:00.001+01:002011-03-04T18:55:01.387+00:00The Blog continued with the Colour OrangeI just decided to contine this blog. Colours are my life - without colours I will not be an artist. The posts may appear sporadically and I have to think about a guideline for myself but we will see what happens. I also spent so much time on this blog, collecting all those wonderful motifs and colours, that it would be a shame if I stopped sharing them.<br />
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I thank all my readers for their motivation and maybe you will find the one or other image you might like.<br />
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Starting with one from my balcony - the colour of the Clivia: <i><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #e69138;">Orange</span></i></b></div><br />
I found a very strange psychological explanation for the colour Orange in a German description (translated and abbreviated): <br />
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"Orange symbolizes the unappealing, the sweet, aromatic, the refreshing, the cheap, the flashy, the extrovert, the trendy, the loud, closeness, fun, cheerful, sociability, pleasure, gluttony, energy, activity, excitement, warmth, desire.<br />
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Orange has always been an exotic colour in Europe although sunset and sunrise are orange. Orange has a cheap appeal because many objects in orange are plastic. There are no natural materials which are orange, therefore the colour orange sends the signal of being cheap. Through advertising campaigns and certain product design the image of the colour did not improve - on the contrary. People combine pushiness and swaggering with orange. <br />
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But the colour orange also has a positive character. It's the colour of the amusing, pleasure, sociability. Orange is a combination of light and warmth. Orange creates a pleasant atmospheric environment. It is not as dazzling as yellow and not as sultry as red. Orange is the colour of the fire etc."<br />
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What is your attitude towards orange?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Clivia Miniata (Amaryllidaceae),</i><br />
<i>Riemenblatt, Bush Lily </i> <br />
~~~</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-36429285750513440062009-10-17T17:15:00.004+01:002009-10-17T17:33:16.873+01:00I don't know what to do...This could be the last...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Stnxl3B_BQI/AAAAAAAAGVM/tuLq6XE9xvI/s1600-h/7leaves0001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Stnxl3B_BQI/AAAAAAAAGVM/tuLq6XE9xvI/s400/7leaves0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393607661482607874" border="0" /></a><br />After so many months of trying to make this blog interesting and valuable I realize that it is obviously not worthwhile to really to be continued. I am probably not giving this up completely but apparently people have no real interest in blooms and blossoms, colours shown in intriguing environments. The amount of photography blogs running through the internet is simply too high even if the content of many blogs could be "neglected".<br /><br />Well - simply looking at my stats I must say that all the work is not worthwhile to be continued if no-one likes to see it. I have so many tasks on my plate that I really need to set priorities and I decided to concentrate rather on my art and design tasks than wasting precious time for private pleasure only - <img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/4.gif" alt="grinsen" /> - because pleasure it was, to collect all those photos and share them with one or two viewers.<br /><br />Never mind....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-68894993468336477232009-09-22T15:37:00.003+01:002009-09-22T15:43:30.454+01:00The Variety of Surfaces<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiEP6HjMI/AAAAAAAAGTo/0fmYdYC-36s/s1600-h/sep0153sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiEP6HjMI/AAAAAAAAGTo/0fmYdYC-36s/s400/sep0153sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301917139078338" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiD0PwUKI/AAAAAAAAGTg/x2Vg-TtyfDk/s1600-h/sep0142sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiD0PwUKI/AAAAAAAAGTg/x2Vg-TtyfDk/s400/sep0142sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301909713637538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiDTr1LmI/AAAAAAAAGTY/V11rJ3qP1M8/s1600-h/autumn0110sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiDTr1LmI/AAAAAAAAGTY/V11rJ3qP1M8/s400/autumn0110sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301900973026914" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiDHy9n8I/AAAAAAAAGTQ/OhDbGveIK-k/s1600-h/autumn0108sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjiDHy9n8I/AAAAAAAAGTQ/OhDbGveIK-k/s400/autumn0108sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301897781714882" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhuJONjDI/AAAAAAAAGTI/3vODErgpATM/s1600-h/autumn0105sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhuJONjDI/AAAAAAAAGTI/3vODErgpATM/s400/autumn0105sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301537387187250" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhtxmeeJI/AAAAAAAAGTA/YViotSEWyhQ/s1600-h/autumn0076sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhtxmeeJI/AAAAAAAAGTA/YViotSEWyhQ/s400/autumn0076sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301531046508690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Srjhtc1W56I/AAAAAAAAGS4/wtuMPuga-RM/s1600-h/autumn0072sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Srjhtc1W56I/AAAAAAAAGS4/wtuMPuga-RM/s400/autumn0072sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301525471782818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhtF2y9CI/AAAAAAAAGSw/JQ-xdBZJ4iU/s1600-h/autumn0066sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SrjhtF2y9CI/AAAAAAAAGSw/JQ-xdBZJ4iU/s400/autumn0066sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301519303799842" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Srjhs-CZL8I/AAAAAAAAGSo/ZZDbIRxd4eo/s1600-h/autumn0063sur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Srjhs-CZL8I/AAAAAAAAGSo/ZZDbIRxd4eo/s400/autumn0063sur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384301517204959170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br />.<br /><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-87236524118882428972009-09-12T13:48:00.004+01:002009-09-12T13:55:35.469+01:00Pumpkin Colour CompositionsMother Nature chose these compositions...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZkiSIHJI/AAAAAAAAGSI/fCmJcBYMays/s1600-h/sep0178com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZkiSIHJI/AAAAAAAAGSI/fCmJcBYMays/s400/sep0178com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380563032781364370" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZkDCo2xI/AAAAAAAAGSA/w7wq6GrRwKw/s1600-h/sep0163com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZkDCo2xI/AAAAAAAAGSA/w7wq6GrRwKw/s400/sep0163com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380563024394902290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZTos3EwI/AAAAAAAAGR4/ZXnhjnscBmA/s1600-h/sep0160com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZTos3EwI/AAAAAAAAGR4/ZXnhjnscBmA/s400/sep0160com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380562742446330626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZTHQxd7I/AAAAAAAAGRo/lZ8fONPCjk8/s1600-h/sep0152com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZTHQxd7I/AAAAAAAAGRo/lZ8fONPCjk8/s400/sep0152com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380562733470152626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZSqsh9mI/AAAAAAAAGRg/kfUSwuXUa1c/s1600-h/sep0145com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZSqsh9mI/AAAAAAAAGRg/kfUSwuXUa1c/s400/sep0145com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380562725801948770" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZSaKSA4I/AAAAAAAAGRY/QdnupuaihVE/s1600-h/autumn0075com.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SquZSaKSA4I/AAAAAAAAGRY/QdnupuaihVE/s400/autumn0075com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380562721363329922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br />.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-89169650043989741412009-09-05T12:39:00.013+01:002009-09-05T13:13:39.501+01:00It's Pumpkin TimeI am going to flood you with colours <img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/40.gif" alt="Oh Mann!" /> - the colours of pumpkins. Let's start with the "common" sight of orange...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPd79EcWI/AAAAAAAAGRI/x3RD249Vx9U/s1600-h/sep0174%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPd79EcWI/AAAAAAAAGRI/x3RD249Vx9U/s400/sep0174%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377948280762429794" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPdkPOuTI/AAAAAAAAGRA/8xcwdtXF5wc/s1600-h/sep0172%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPdkPOuTI/AAAAAAAAGRA/8xcwdtXF5wc/s400/sep0172%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377948274396150066" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPdJOOYwI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/JYTxh77FJvc/s1600-h/sep0171%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPdJOOYwI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/JYTxh77FJvc/s400/sep0171%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377948267144176386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPck__xoI/AAAAAAAAGQw/iwKCmPw97gk/s1600-h/sep0170%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPck__xoI/AAAAAAAAGQw/iwKCmPw97gk/s400/sep0170%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377948257420822146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNxLVcuI/AAAAAAAAGQo/HNgryOzbuhA/s1600-h/sep0169%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNxLVcuI/AAAAAAAAGQo/HNgryOzbuhA/s400/sep0169%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377948002991567586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNc2n9CI/AAAAAAAAGQg/miNRm5o-3dg/s1600-h/sep0167%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNc2n9CI/AAAAAAAAGQg/miNRm5o-3dg/s400/sep0167%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377947997535990818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNPGKnBI/AAAAAAAAGQY/-gqH9hVkqlE/s1600-h/sep0165a%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPNPGKnBI/AAAAAAAAGQY/-gqH9hVkqlE/s400/sep0165a%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377947993843080210" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPMgaCgQI/AAAAAAAAGQQ/CbSa9X5W1FY/s1600-h/sep0164%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPMgaCgQI/AAAAAAAAGQQ/CbSa9X5W1FY/s400/sep0164%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377947981309968642" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPMIrrVFI/AAAAAAAAGQI/z0M4Hs1QtYA/s1600-h/sep0162%23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SqJPMIrrVFI/AAAAAAAAGQI/z0M4Hs1QtYA/s400/sep0162%23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377947974941496402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br />.<br /><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-91472935026985470412009-09-01T12:39:00.004+01:002009-09-01T12:51:02.297+01:00Colours of an Insect's ClothIt looks like cloth, cloth made from tree bark fibers as it is still common in various remote areas of our world. But this has been made by an insect, tree wasps and it is the structure of their nest. Incredible colours and incredible pattern - simply beautiful. Photographed backlit...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sp0Jst0LTYI/AAAAAAAAGPw/RMSwSVFjEAc/s1600-h/nov0122.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sp0Jst0LTYI/AAAAAAAAGPw/RMSwSVFjEAc/s400/nov0122.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376464193967574402" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sp0JsX_IFOI/AAAAAAAAGPo/lPiTBxdbfdM/s1600-h/nov0121.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sp0JsX_IFOI/AAAAAAAAGPo/lPiTBxdbfdM/s400/nov0121.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376464188107920610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br />.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-34268674661504887282009-08-28T18:02:00.005+01:002009-09-01T12:52:36.170+01:00GraffitiYou must admit - no matter whether you despise graffiti or not - the colour compositions of some graffiti are exceptional....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQMAe4d-I/AAAAAAAAGPg/kBAuJBKlPys/s1600-h/mgraffiti0056.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQMAe4d-I/AAAAAAAAGPg/kBAuJBKlPys/s400/mgraffiti0056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375063953740691426" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQLhOVeZI/AAAAAAAAGPY/hMYgxwCWaWk/s1600-h/mgraffiti0034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQLhOVeZI/AAAAAAAAGPY/hMYgxwCWaWk/s400/mgraffiti0034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375063945349790098" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQLDT52GI/AAAAAAAAGPQ/nNnesfXaJlE/s1600-h/0122jan0069.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQLDT52GI/AAAAAAAAGPQ/nNnesfXaJlE/s400/0122jan0069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375063937320081506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQK2ZLsqI/AAAAAAAAGPI/j-Yd1b4LK2s/s1600-h/0122jan0056.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQK2ZLsqI/AAAAAAAAGPI/j-Yd1b4LK2s/s400/0122jan0056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375063933852562082" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQKvGoe-I/AAAAAAAAGPA/Bf-Nj8iyIBs/s1600-h/graffiti7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SpgQKvGoe-I/AAAAAAAAGPA/Bf-Nj8iyIBs/s400/graffiti7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375063931895708642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-64553107777525933282009-08-19T14:20:00.005+01:002009-09-05T13:14:48.507+01:00Time for the Berries<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MDlIBVI/AAAAAAAAGNg/thRw_1k6Tp4/s1600-h/1012oct0019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MDlIBVI/AAAAAAAAGNg/thRw_1k6Tp4/s400/1012oct0019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371664264619099474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MbEl-sI/AAAAAAAAGNo/Ilj5SOvPFn8/s1600-h/1012oct0018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MbEl-sI/AAAAAAAAGNo/Ilj5SOvPFn8/s400/1012oct0018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371664270925101762" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MzapyqI/AAAAAAAAGNw/7MArjsqOx3k/s1600-h/1012oct0017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sov8MzapyqI/AAAAAAAAGNw/7MArjsqOx3k/s400/1012oct0017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371664277460077218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-54979279187428004942009-08-08T17:55:00.003+01:002009-08-08T18:00:54.206+01:00The Colours of Rust<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2udLj0_nI/AAAAAAAAGM8/w0MtrIG_4nY/s1600-h/buildings0070.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2udLj0_nI/AAAAAAAAGM8/w0MtrIG_4nY/s400/buildings0070.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367638147238002290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2uc4vFRXI/AAAAAAAAGM0/iHN9gwDKI1c/s1600-h/buildings0071.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2uc4vFRXI/AAAAAAAAGM0/iHN9gwDKI1c/s400/buildings0071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367638142184932722" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2ucbQ7ItI/AAAAAAAAGMs/pi45v3jm2nA/s1600-h/buildings0072.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2ucbQ7ItI/AAAAAAAAGMs/pi45v3jm2nA/s400/buildings0072.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367638134273811154" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2ucSQbeXI/AAAAAAAAGMk/9qvwqrgt5xA/s1600-h/buildings0076.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/Sn2ucSQbeXI/AAAAAAAAGMk/9qvwqrgt5xA/s400/buildings0076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367638131855817074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2297719360939684040.post-67672117279017312362009-07-30T18:15:00.004+01:002009-07-30T18:21:54.122+01:00Sacred Colours<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHVk3WQNnI/AAAAAAAAGLs/2-ASAuMFbL4/s1600-h/window89.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHVk3WQNnI/AAAAAAAAGLs/2-ASAuMFbL4/s400/window89.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303460484265586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHVkoNRNdI/AAAAAAAAGLk/q3UrIvM-m_0/s1600-h/window88.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHVkKFiWHI/AAAAAAAAGLM/CA2z2RmBXDQ/s400/window61.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303448334555250" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5oPQvHI/AAAAAAAAGMU/o-Yl_X0WNb8/s1600-h/window108.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5oPQvHI/AAAAAAAAGMU/o-Yl_X0WNb8/s400/window108.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303817205660786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5XyPBGI/AAAAAAAAGMM/_Oq1bhxcKgg/s1600-h/window107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5XyPBGI/AAAAAAAAGMM/_Oq1bhxcKgg/s400/window107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303812788946018" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5AQrYPI/AAAAAAAAGME/j51SYIyg0zo/s1600-h/window92.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV5AQrYPI/AAAAAAAAGME/j51SYIyg0zo/s400/window92.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303806474182898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV4w16Q9I/AAAAAAAAGL8/ELieTdClv38/s1600-h/window91.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV4w16Q9I/AAAAAAAAGL8/ELieTdClv38/s400/window91.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303802335380434" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV4v7Q0wI/AAAAAAAAGL0/oI968qQdJqY/s1600-h/window90.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3zn9GTcyQ8g/SnHV4v7Q0wI/AAAAAAAAGL0/oI968qQdJqY/s400/window90.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364303802089394946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">photography ©Petra Voegtle</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871565282521663165noreply@blogger.com0