Palm House at the Lily Pool Terrace
Continuing the series. Sky blue. Ocean blue. Lots of blue paint.
Related posts:
Blue (#6 of 8)
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Tag Archives: Colors
Green (#5 of 8)
Yellow (#4 of 8)
Rudbeckia, from North Carolina Arboretum, October 2006
Continuing the rainbow series. Previous posts were pink, red and orange. I need to finish the series in time to prepare some cards to hand out at the Brooklyn Blogfest in May. Indigo is going to be tough; I might skip it, go straight to purple/violet, and come back to indigo later.
Eranthis hyemalis, Winter Aconite, from Finally, Spring, March 2
Canada Lily, from Brooklyn Botanic Garden, June 2006
Death in the Garden, from Marie’s Garden, August 2006
Rope Ball, from Waterfront Museum, March 12
Chelidonium majus, Greater Celandine, June 2006
Skip is a Verb, from the Children’s Aid Society
Orange (#3 of 8)
Anthurium infructescence with fruits, from BBG, March 3
The third of eight in a series. Pink and Red preceded. Yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet/purple will follow.
Leaves on a shrub in the mixed border at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, from Brooklyn Botanic Garden, November 6, 2005
Trumpet Vine, from South Midwood Garden Tour, July 30, 2006
Butternut Squash, from Squash and Pear Soup, October 7, 2006
Maple Trees, from The 2006 New York Sheep & Wool Festival
Leaves on Rugby Road in Prospect Park South
Lily Pool Terrace, from BBG, November 4, 2006
Still Life, Picket Fence Restaurant
Red (#2 of 8)
Hibiscus, from South Midwood Garden Tour, July 30, 2006
The second of eight installments on the way to creating a photographic rainbow to use as a banner for the blog and other branding opportunities. Pink was the first, and there will be six more: orange, yellow, green (easy!), blue, indigo (tough!) and violet/purple.
“Red” turned out to be harder for me to define than “Pink”. It’s not a simple color. There are so many different flavors of red. Of course, there’s the brilliant, vibrant, almost crimson that screams RED, like the Hibiscus.
There are less saturated reds, like brick red:
Front Porch Detail, from The Front Garden Evolving, January 24, 2007
Some leaves:
Virgina Creeper, from North Carolina Arboretum, October 9, 2006
And even algae:
Algae Pool in Rock, from North Carolina Arboretum Bonsai House, October 9, 2006
I’m having a particularly hard time figuring out where red leaves off and orange begins:
Cormorant on Torii in the Japanese Garden, from Brooklyn Botanic Garden, April 23, 2006
Maple Tree, 91 Marlborough Road
There are many more flavors of red in the Flickr photo set, so be sure to visit there, too.
Pink
[Updated: Added captions and links to previous blog posts.]
I’ve been thinking about creating a banner for the blog which I can use for “branding” opportunities such as calling cards. I want to create a composite image from my photographs which recreates the rainbow of curtains across the front of the house.
The original design for the gay pride flag had eight colors: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. (Only a gay man would insist on including “indigo” in the rainbow!) My first task is to collect photographs for each color. This is the first installment: Pink.
Beetle on Rose, from Field Trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, July 8, 2006.
Cherry Blossoms, from Field Trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, April 23, 2006.
Tabletop Portulaca
Bee on Echinacea, from South Midwood Garden Tour, July 30, 2006.
Gecko Under Glass
Phlox, from Marie’s Garden, Saratoga, NY, August 26, 2006.
Allamanda cathartica “Cherries Jubilee”, from North Carolina Arboretum
Sunset, from Halloween 2006.
