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Crayola Colour Challenge – week 4
The fourth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
Shapely tulips
The One Word Sunday challenge asked for shape. It’s so drab outside I wanted to look at some colour – and tulips have a very distinguishable shape, too.
More shapely photos can be found here.
a round of applause
Most flowers are round by definition, the petals, the leaves, even when jagged have no straight angles. These arrangements use curves and round elements to showcase the flowers.
These flowerbeds were created for the national garden exhibition in Brandenburg, Germany, in 2016 (Bundesgartenschau). They show examples of how graves can be planted, and nurseries from all over Germany had small, grave-sized plots showing examples of their work. Because of the spacial limitations the displays are miniatures with every plant, every petal displayed to perfection. In fact, I saw gardeners working on the arrangements with little nail scissors clipping leaves for optimum effect.
This is for The Daily Post and more photos with the topic of rounded can be found here.
Through the dancing poppy stole a breeze
How hidden this field of poppies was to locals, I don’t know. But I had walked hours and hours before I came upon it, quite unexpectedly stepping out of the woods.
The full quote by John Keats is thus: “Through the dancing poppies stole a breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”
More hidden treasures for the A Photo a Week Challenge can be found here.
Roses are red, these flowers are not
I am normally reluctant to rob flowers of their colours but monochrome draws the viewer to observe the shape and of course, they have so much to offer in this regard as well.
No nightshade
The Daily Post asked for unusual photos, what I perceive as unusual.
I very seldom use flashlight when I take pictures but the other day I snapped these in our garden and I quite like the effect, particularly of the spiky seed capsule of a nigella flower (Schwarzkümmel). Maybe I’ll try a few more in the coming weeks.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/unusual-ld/
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