orange seems to be a very popular choice for a photographic challenge and here it comes again. Not wanting to repeat my previous choices I thought I’d stick with a floral scheme this time around.
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
a terracotta pot contrasts beautifully with the blue-green hues of succulents.
From the palest of peaches and apricots through to copper, rust, salmon-pink and terracotta, the range of orange shades in the natural world is phenomenal.
and some plants can display many different shades of orange simultaneously as in the largish, double-formed flowers of apricot-orange with shades of rose-pink borne in medium-sized clusters on the fragrant Ann Aberconway rose.
“Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.”
~ Wassily Kandinsky
If you like flowers as much as I do then head over to The Earth Laughs with Flowers where you will find these and many more…
A lovely selection Jude. I also like the colour challenges they are sort of relaxing
I wish they’d do more!
Me too. They are so easy to find photos for…
I’m going to nominate you for a competition – I’m not posting mine until Tuesday but if you want to have a look http://www.thomascook.com/blog/featured-posts/explore-the-elements/
That is a fantastic competition and a great prize but unfortunately I will have to decline your nomination Jude. We leave home in 7 days and I have quite a lot still to do and also once we are on the cruise I will not be blogging as the cost of satellite connections is HUGE ie US75cents/minute…. So I will be having internet withdrawals for approx. 3 weeks… 😦
Good luck with your entries…
No worries PP – I look forward to hearing about your cruise and the NZ part of course 🙂
Will you post your comp photos on your blog?
Tomorrow!
Good…
I love those copper pumpkins – where did you spot those?
Copper pumpkins were in the garden in Sandwich. A lovely place to visit if you are ever in the area.
I love all your choices, Jude. There really are some amazing shades of orange in the natural world, aren’t there?
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(Ever since this challenge appeared, I’ve had the song “Nothing rhymes with orange” stuck in my head.
Ooh fabulous collage of colors and patterns. The roses are stupendous !!
Thanks Sammy 🙂
A very nice selection of flowers … loved the metal pumpkins.
The copper pumpkins are a hit all round 😀
The pumpkins are cute, but the roses in the header image are beautiful. I like the title, too!
Mmm… I thought the WP title a little odd. Or is it just me?
I’m not very “punny”, so I would never think to swap “orange” for “aren’t you”. But, to each his/her own!