Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Color

Peacock on a Fence

Peacock on a Fence


There was a time in my life when I was almost afraid of color. I wore a lot of black. Or mostly black with a little red thrown in. Or mostly navy blue with a little red thrown in. Or mostly brown with a little red thrown in.

Are you sensing a pattern here?

As as adult, and with confidence in myself, I've learned to love color.

My house has every color of the rainbow on its walls. I like to tell people we got drunk and painted the house. My favorite color scheme in my home, the dining room, is orange and teal. I have almost a pumpkin orange on the walls, light teal window treatments and a teal, brown, and cream rug. It makes me happy every time I see it.

I wear color too. I'm not afraid of it any more. Well, maybe I'm afraid of yellow. It makes me look too sallow. But other than yellow, if I like it, I'll wear it. In fact, I'm toting around a patent leather kelly green purse right now. It's fabulous.

Today I wore a light orange sweater topped with a dark plum corduroy jacket, a black satin skirt with dark plum flowers sewn on and embroidered in orange thread. It sounds a bit out there, but trust me, I looked fierce. (As Christian would say.)

Color adds so much to my life. As much as I love the serene calm of white snow, all that white space calling out to me; I love the gorgeous fuchsia, celadon, kelly, violet, and all the blushing colors of Spring, more. Or the warm, rich colors of Fall deep with spices, the burnt red of crackling fires and falling leaves, and the deep shades of football jerseys.

I'm discovering that my personality and love of color is appearing in my photographs as well. While I'll always love the dark tones of a cool vintage photo,

Looking Through a Fence

or the peaceful feeling of a nice black and white conversion (or mocha and white),

Holden snow2 Mocha


color is my forte.

Moonlight Dancing


Rich, saturated, glorious color.

Not Just a Pretty Face


Color just suits me.

Ride on a Dreamy Carousel


And I still love to add a little of my red every now and then.

Red Barn


What's your signature color?

3 comments:

Organized Chaos said...

Hi
I am on flickr a lot and I just gravitate over to your pictures a lot. I think they are wonderful. I am so new to photoshop. I have elements and realize I cannot do actions. Where do you find all of your actions. Because I plan on trying them as soon as I buy cs3.
Jessica

MARY G said...

Wow! I am madly in love with all of these, but I think I like the barn and the little guy the best. Tells a story.

Anonymous said...

Those are some great pics! I love the hyper saturation in the pictures.

I have a Nikon D40X too. Do you mostly do manual settings or do you use the auto settings?