This week’s theme over in F-Stop is Cerulean Blue: It’s the color of sky, of water, the color of peace. Cerulean Blue sings through the atmosphere. PhotoClub Challenge: Cerulean Blue Image at left: SOMA Blue, Randall Jay
Photo Of The Day: The Color Of The Season
Fall is a season of intense color. Besides the turning of the autumn leaves and the seas of pumpkin orange in the markets, one of my favorite color displays in the fall are the simple, deep, rich colors of Indian Corn. Today I took a walk down to the Berkeley Bowl to do the weekly [...]
Photo Of The Day: La Placita Village, Tucson
Ok, let me be straight up with you right from the start – La Placita Village, in downtown Tucson, Arizona, is not a traditional village in the old Southwest tradition. Instead it is delightful collection of adobe, brick, and wood frame buildings designed to resemble a Mexican marketplace. When I visited the complex on a [...]
Art History: The Palette of Cézanne
Image at left: Still Life with Apples, 1893-94 The Impressionist palette, no matter how wild the paintings may have seemed to be at the time, was restricted to only about a half-a-dozen colors – and the palette eliminated black altogether. It relied heavily on using complementary colors to create light and shadow instead of gray [...]
Photo Of The Day: Saint Vitus Roof Tiles
Climb all the way to the top of the tower in Saint Vitus Cathedral in The Castle of Prague to see the slate roof tiles up close. It wasn’t the reason I climbed the tower, just one of the many views that I saw from there. Everything in Prague seems to have a pattern associated [...]
Photo Of The Day: Old Building
When I think of the colors of Prague, I think of colors like the layered, weathered colors in this photograph. While many people think of the soft, pretty, pastel colors of the buildings in the center of Prague, like the buildings in Staré Město, when they remember the city, I call to mind the various [...]
Photo Of The Day: Provencal Doorway
While most shutters and doors in Provence share lighter, although intense, colors like lavender, yellow, periwinkle, or pistachio green, on occasion a darker color can be found. Walking around Ventabren I found this pair of shutters, the blue matches the blue of the house number. The mail in the slot makes it seem like someone [...]
Notre Dame de Montmartre
The color creates a sort of moving painting, using light as its medium. The color appears to be warm and soft, but running a hand over the stone, it is cold and illusory.
Photo Of The Day: Textured Wall In Valladolid
My fascination with walls continue. The Yucatecos, and I suppose Mexicans in general, but in this instance and in this town it is the Yucatecos, tend to use the simplest of methods to decorate their buildings and homes. Whether it’s just a simple combination of vibrant colors on a wall, or as in this instance, [...]
Photo Of The Day: Bullfight Posters In Merida
I would pass this building every time I came and went to and from the hostel which was about a half a block away. The only thing that had ever seemed to change here were the bullfight posters layered one upon the other. The outside was pockmarked by the wear and tear of the weather. [...]
