To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This month we will be looking for White or Silver. White is technically not a colour, white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. White is the lightest colour and is achromatic (having no hue). White is seen to be pure and clean. A wedding dress, the pure snow, a swan’s feather, fluffy clouds, milk and the Milky Way.
Silver is a precious metal, indicating wealth. “Born with a silver spoon in your mouth”. A cool colour. Sparkling silver water. The light of the moon. It represents feminine energy, pure, emotional and sensitive.
“Life is a train of moods
like a string of beads
and as we pass through them
they prove to be many-coloured lenses
which paint the world
their own hue,
and each shows only
what lies in its focus.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good choices, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
I love white, so fresh and bright, but it’s not a colour that really stands out.
It needs some contrast. Like the darker sheep in my photo perhaps? x
I wonder how I missed that post? Perhaps when my son was in hospital again. It’s a cracking photo Pete and yes those dark sheep add much to the composition.
Thanks Jude. One of the few photos I am actually ‘proud’ of. It was taken in a blizzard, but if you use the magnifier, the dark face of the sheep is sharp enough still. x
Lovely white selection Jude! I’d better get cracking and see what I can find!
Plenty of time Megan 😊
Well, I did leave it to the last minute for the purple challenge! 🙃
The quotation is from Emerson’s essay “Experience.” If you wish to see more of the setting, click Page 188 at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essays_Lectures_and_Orations/PtzyAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=many-coloured%20lenses
Thanks Mr Wordsmith 😄 I will.
Lovely, this is my my kind of colour 😊
Ah, some great images, Jude. I know I have quite a lot of white if I get looking, but for now, just 3 images: https://suejudd.com/2021/06/06/life-in-colour-white-or-silver/
Thanks Sue.
😊
Love the photos, sentiments, and Emerson’s words too. 🙂
Thanks!