Orange is the colour of saffron, pumpkins and apricots. It is between red and yellow on the spectrum of light, and in the traditional colour wheel used by painters. Its name is derived from the orange fruit.
In traditional colour theory, orange is a range of colours between red and yellow
“Kleurenovergang van rood naar geel” by Original uploader was Wilinckx at nl.wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Helenium
Tangerines
Citrus
Happiness
Keep Out
Pretty Flamingo
Leucospermum-Cordifolium
A Red Squirrel
Lifeboat
Dahlia
Golden Gate bridge, San Francisco, USA
Azalea
Knysna Sunset
Strelitzia
yes that worked!
Oh good!
Good selection of oranges Jude. I like the red squirrel too. I don’t recall ever having seen one in the flesh, only greys.
Regards as always, Pete. x
He’s from Scotland Pete. First one I have seen too. I have so many orange photos it was difficult to select just a few. Glad you like them 🙂
A beautiful collection of orange.
Thank you Colline. It is such a lovely cheerful colour 🙂
It is.
Orange is my favourite colour, I could stare at those pics all day 🙂
I even included one especially for you 😀
And it sums up my entire wisdom 🙂
😀 😀
Definitely brightened my day! You’ve chosen such a variety of images, and I get the feeling that you could have chosen from hundreds of others. I’m curious about how you curate your photos – mine are a dog’s (or twins) breakfast. Tracking down images for a challenge would be a major undertaking. Just lucky with orange.
I keep thinking of others I could have used. My photos are just filed in folders Meg. No keywords or anything like that to search on so I just rely on memory to look in a folder where I think a suitable image can be found. My mission is to sort out our digital photos and just keep the best 50 or so from each place. But I have been doing this since 2008 and I don’t seem too get any further!
At least you go back to them. I don’t know that I ever do. I’m trying to reduce my current 2000 from my recent three months away before I transfer to pc. I’ve got to learn to trash trashy twin ones. Trash not such a problem elsewhere!
Certainly made my day!!!!
Job done then! 🙂
Orange, red and yellow makes me think of fall. I love fall colors. ❤
I painted my bathroom orange once. It certainly woke you up in the morning 😉
I bet it would. Now I want to know what kind of orange?
proper ‘in your face’ tangerine coloured orange! Fortunately the bathroom suite and the tiles were white 😉
Funny…tangerine is the uppermost word in my head. 😀
Whew. Wow. I can’t believe this. ❤
How can orange not brighten up your day.
The colour orange was named after the fruit? I’ve learned something this morning. I thought some unimaginative botanist had named the fruit after the colour. 🙂
According to Wikipedia it wasn’t used in English until the 1500s. Probably the best place to ‘be’ orange is in Amsterdam on Queensday.
Jude what an amazing gallery of orange! The variety shows your talents and diversity in photography.
I’m really just a happy snapper Sue 🙂 Apart from flowers (of which I have millions) I hadn’t realised just how many orange photos I have until looking through the digital shoebox for inspiration.
Beautiful gallery of orange!
Thank you 🙂
A great selection Jude! Certainly brightened -up my day! 😀
That was the intention 🙂
A really nice detailed post Jude! There is a Van Gogh museum near here I think I should go! Thanks!
I didn’t know how I could use this image Kathryn until this challenge came along. He apparently used a blue background especially to contrast with his orange beard. Works well. And yes, go visit the museum.
Yes it’s perfect Jude! Don’t you love when it all comes together ??
Whoo! Eye popping!
Definitely zingy! I need more orange in my life – SO bored living in a neutral environment. I think it is turning me into blancmange. 😉
Feeling very cheery now – that definitely worked. Thank you 🙂
A great idea from Ailsa to cheer everyone up on a rainy Bank Holiday in England!
You really found some lovely orange shots for this travel theme, Jude. Mmmm….cream cakes……now there’s a good idea. 🙂
I have been sorely influenced by #theladywholovescakes 😆
Smiling at your photos and feeling happy now 😉
Orange is a great colour helping us to look on the bright side of life. And on this grey and rainy Monday it is definitely needed!
This one from your Postcards archive would be a sublime add:
http://smallbluegreenfotos.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/weekly-photo-challenge-let-there-be-light/
Thanks for reminding me about that one! I have quite a lot of orange images that I remembered after I posted this gallery – oh, well, there will probably be another time 🙂
There’s always time for more orange!
Indeed 🙂
It certainly has brightened my day Jude, and I need it because, after being spoilt with weeks of clear sunny skies, a bit cool but the sun always makes it feel warmer, the last 2 days have turned to grey skies and drizzle. I really thought winter had gone.
Sounds like the weather here! Summer has suddenly disappeared, such a shame, I really enjoyed the sunny days and long light evenings. Oh, well, can hope for an Indian Summer I suppose 🙂
Pleased to report the sun is out again here… 🙂
Such a bright n chirpy collection!
Thanks HD 😀