Here comes the eleventh mystery location post of this year….
This one is from one of my trips over the years, when I got a bit of time to explore the surrounding country. As you can imagine, I was struck by the vivid colors and found the fog that was hanging just above the town a nice bit of contrast.
Where is this?
Colorful, yet foggy!
It’s not hard to figure out the country…but can you also figure out the town, where I took this photo?
Ann-Christine was correct in recognizing the Icelandic writing on the building, which is part of the Herring Era Museum in Siglufjörður, Iceland. This is on the northern part of the island, not too far from Akureyri.
Welcome to the 115th round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge! Slowly getting back on track here and it’s good to see all the color that has been added to the blogosphere this week!
This has certainly been an awesome week of contributions, as it looks like colors bring out some of the most creative aspects of all of your work! The colors in your posts are truly stunning and there are some color palettes that I hadn’t noticed before. Thank you for all the great contributions and I hope you enjoy reading these posts, as much as I did.
Here’s a bit more color to add to your day…
Colors of the Wind
This colorful wind-spinner caught my attention, so I decided to play around with exposure times until I got just enough blur for my taste.
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
ladyleemanila really went for all the colors in the rainbow with her post and even included a bit of color for love!
In Geriatri’X’ Fotogallery, the flower girl really is filled with color, but that might be because of what she’s made of…
Nicole’s post in Un Photo Une Poeme is filled with amazing fireworks photography, which makes me look forward to Bastille Day!
In pensivity101‘s first post, we get to see the great colors that are on the waterwys in England; in her second post in pensivity101, we also get to see a truly amazing garden!
In this week’s entry in Take a Walk and Discover, Michelle shows us some rather amazingly colorful houses!
In Alubhujia we get to see a great splash of color in the mountains, running along the hill!
Xenia’s first post is in whippetwisdom where we enjoy the colors of Gleann Einich, with a great haibun! Xenia’s second post is in her blog Tranature with hopeful eyes of the birds!
In Don’t Hold Your Breath, we get a break in the journey, as it is a great time for some tea, and color!
Clearly, there is no shortage of color in MV obsession‘s life, as those photos are just brimming with all the colors!
Cee broke out all of the colors as well with a great set of photos in Cee’s Photography!
In Wild Daffodil‘s post, we get to see an intricate and amazing crocheted blanket and the stitches that went into it. Stunning!
With another stunning photo in Chateaux des Fleurs, we are treated to an amazing set of tulip colors!
Miriam post in the Shower of Blessings features some gorgeous hummingbirds, which adorn her garden!
Hammad takes a look at colors in his post in The Blog of Hammad Rais, adding some amazing looks into the image!
Yinglan’s post in This is Another Story brings us the stunning colors of the Chinese New Year and also a plate of sushi that now has me hungry!!
Susan’s travel to South Africa is featured in her post in Musin’ with Susan, as she captured a gorgeous set of colors in a row of houses!
Debbie focuses on compassion and letting go in her post in ForgivingConnects, as she shows that the many colors in the palette of relationships are all for the good! A great post to read!
In her post in Anita’s Images, Anita shows of some great images of colors on winged animals; they are stunning!
With another stunning photo in theonlyD800inthehameau, there’s evidence that sowing the rights seeds produces some gorgeous flowers!
In Carlos’ post in Ostendnomadography, we get views of the street art that was done for a festival in his hometown of Oostende; amazing work!
Debbie’s entry in Travel with Intent features the international language of beer! With its colorful bottlecaps and labels and, of course, the color of the brews themselves!
George geeks out on us in the Alchemist of the Woods, as his description of what he does for a living, which has some cool colors, goes rather deep and technical! Sounds really interesting!!
I hope that you enjoy these posts and let the authors know!
The WordPress Daily Post Prompt has the word Carve…
There are many ways to take this prompt, but one image spring to mind immediately!
Sometimes, you get the opportunity to see something in a slightly different way, as the eye surveys what lies in front of it. This was one of those occasions…
A Slice of Color
As we were sitting around the dinner table for dessert, this slice of life presented itself to me, so I took the opportunity and the photo. In particular, the color palette on the knife struck me, as it reminded me of a painter at work.
Welcome to the 54th round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!
I went in a completely different direction with the RGB theme, and, given your record thus far, I wasn’t surprised to see a great set of posts with these cool colors! Not only were your images colorful, but they were also highly creative! As a result, I had a lot of fun looking at all of your posts (there were many!), for which I thank you!
This week also included some unusual images that were the result of really clever planning and understanding the ins and outs of long exposure photography. I encourage you to check out all of this week’s entries!
There was a particular image that I captured in the Netherlands that I had in mind when this week’s theme crossed my mind…
Volendam Fishers
Serendipity is my friend on many occasions, such as this one, when I found these fishing boats moored in their colorful best! The town of Volendam is one of the old fishing villages on the Ijsselmeer, which was the Zuiderzee before it was closed off at its Northern side by the Afsluitdijk (literally: Closing off dike). If you find yourself in the Netherlands, definitely check out the towns around the Ijsselmeer, as they are both picturesque and filled with history.
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
Xenia posted first this week with a great quadrille and photos in her blog Whippetwisdom. Later in the week she followed it up with a bit of Wanderlust too: Whippetwisdom.
Charles’ trip to Copenhagen generated some great images for this week’s theme in charlesewaugh.
iBallRTW provided a great study in light for this week’s theme with a truly imaginative photo!
In Danny’s Photographs, we catch a beautiful moment on the shore of Lake Willoughby in Vermont.
Ru’s Rue brings us a great moment from an early morning with all our colors represented fantastically!
Candace takes us along to Greece in her post in Netdancer’s Musings with a colorful moment in a local shop.
Leaking Ink goes down memory lane and takes us along… definitely worth a visit!
Miriam invites us all on a roadtrip in the Showers of Blessing, and yes, we find all the colors we want!
The only deadhead in the hameau captures a rather colorful windsock in theonlyD800inthehameau.
Cee has some very colorful shots in her post in Cee’s Photography, one of my favorite blogs!
Une Photo, un poéme is an elegant, beautiful blog with a great post for this week’s entry!
Amy not only has a great blog, The World is a Book…, but her entry this week gets top marks for creative execution and vision!
Mac presents us with a wonderful entry in Southern by Design, where color is just wonderful!
Rekha’s attacks the colors individually in her blog wHakAahUa with a gorgeous set of photos!.
Debbie brings us another Forgiving Fridays post in ForgivingConnects, looking at the colors of love; a great read!
Steve presents us with another fantastic photo in his wonderful blog Bum without a Beach!
Khürt’s images in Island in the Net are filled with color and joy, as he not only captures great blossoms, but also his son and his friends have a blast before their high school prom.
This is another great set of images, posts and participation! Thanks to each of you for taking the time and being creative! Now I have to think of another theme!
In this 44th installment of the Tuesday Photo Challenge round up, we are treated to views of a subject that is important to all of us, the world over. Your thoughtful posts about the Color of Love are quite simply fantastic!
This subject matter allow for a variety of interpretations, of which you took advantage, in the most creative ways imaginable. Your colors of love vary tremendously and are all magnificent!
Here’s another image that came to mind when I thought of the color of love…
Rising Fire
On an early morning, there’s nothing like the Sun rising in all its glory to remind us of the love that permeates the entire universe. Let the loving rays of the Sun embrace us and fill us with warmth to ourselves and one another!
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
ladyleemanila‘s post is filled with beautiful images that express love in a number of ways, all wonderful!
Xenia brings us two entries this week, with the first one a Haiku of the love shining in the eyes as daylight fades in WhippetWisdom and the second is a tanka and images that captures love in the eye in WhippetWisdom!
pensitivity101 brings us the color of love in a number of images, including some beauties of roses!
This week, Miriam’s takes us to the center of her universe in The Showers of Blessing, as she brings us to the moment of meeting the love who is now her husband.
Pins N Ashes shows us her color of love, which is wrapped around her wrist snugly and with great beauty.
Ron demonstrates his colors of love in Progressing into Solitude through a collage of images filled with colors that he loves.
Leaking Ink‘s thoughts on the color of love are complex and deep and demonstrated magnificently in photo!
Stella’s interpretation of the color of love is wonderful in her post in Giggles & Tales; her images in this post capture it with great finesse!
Black Body brings us to the beach with a number of natural circles that also include a much-loved color!
Judith’s post in Nature Knows Best brings out a cavalcade of color in a manner that truly shows us the love…
Cee’s tender images in her post in Cee’s Photography can’t help but let each viewer know what love means!
Mac has a very definite choice for the color of love in her post in Southern by Design; let’s see if you guess correctly!
Emily shares her colors of love with us in Zombie Flamingoes and they are truly stunning!
Debbie shares the importance of asking for help by letting love show the way in her post in ForgivingConnects; it also has some great photos to go with it!
Khürt brings a tender post in his blog Island in the Net, which talks about love as a daily affirmation rather than reserved for Valentine’s Day.
Sonya’s post in her great blog Middleton Road has a wonderful capture of one of the love locks near the Wellington water front.
Definitely a lovely array of posts on this topic. I hope you’ll have as much fun reading them, as I did! Now on to next week’s theme…
The usage of color contrast has been beautifully executed by all the great respondents to this week’s challenge. It is truly magnificent to see how much color variety and contrast exists in Nature and the world that we have created.
One of the advantages of living in New England is that we often get beautiful colors during the Autumn season, which provides a bit of color contrast/
The Weather is Perfect!
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
Georgie’s post in her blog Third Time Lucky! shows us some gorgeous colors across the spectrum.
Michelle’s post in Southern by Design reminds us that Green Means Go!, using contrast between human-made and natural colors.
Xenia’s Whippetwisdom shows explorations with her wonderful Whippets, which lead her to enough beautiful Nature that she provide even a second entry in this week’s challenge: Whippetwisdom!
Marga writes The photographer smiled, in which she expertly used contrasting colors of two chairs to create a wonderful composition!
Ann’s post in Ann J White shows us beautiful colors and their contrast at the edge between sea and sky, as well as sea and land.
Charles’ entry in charlesewaugh provides a view of the Blue Star Spring in Yellowstone; it’s stunning!
Miriam’s contribution in Shower of Blessing provides us a wondrous view of a beach on Maui, which really tells me to go visit it!
Leaking Ink is a gorgeous blog, and this week’s entry takes us to Masai Mara in Kenya with great photos.
Judith’s post in Nature Knows Best has an elegant simplicity to it, which really draws the viewer in wonderfully!
Miriam’s fantastic blog, Out an’ About, contributes a post that shows us the great colors of Australia; makes me want to travel!
I think that we can all agree that these are truly great posts! Thanks to all your contributions, I’m getting ready for tomorrow’s theme…
Welcome to episode 29 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge! Seeing all the great entries to last week’s theme of Nature’s Beauty gave me the idea to take a look at what makes nature photography stand out, particularly color photography: Color Contrast.
A lot of what makes for a good photograph, especially when Nature is the subject, is derived from the work of Ansel Adams. In his writings about photography, Adams talks about the zone system as a means for correlating what the photographer visualizes and the final print product. A key aspect is the amount of contrast that exists between parts of the image. While the system was developed for black and white photography, its principles can be applied to color photography.
In color photography, we have the additional luxury of using color to create additional contrast between the various components of the image. This week’s challenge is to use color contrast in your photos to its best advantage. These can be complementary colors, or subtle tonal gradations; I’ll leave the choices to you…
Reaching for the Sky
This image is from a recent trip to the Iceland where I had the opportunity explore the geothermal area in Hverir; this area has steam vents, hot water welling up from the ground and generally a great look to it. In this shot I wanted to use the coloring of the ground and contrast it against the blue sky; additional the blue of the sky is reflected in the hot water run-off to create additional interest.
For those who’d like to participate in this weekly challenge, the rules are the following:
Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week (note: pingbacks may not appear immediately, as my site is set up to require approval for linking to it; helps against previous bad experiences with spamming)
Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!
I’m counting on all of you to come up with some really cool choices; keep in mind that color is everywhere and not just in Nature! Have fun and start sharing!
Technical Details
This image was captured with a Canon EOS 5D MkIII using an EF24-105mm f/4L lens. Exposure settings were at 1/400 second with f/11 and 200 ISO.
Dutch goes the Photo! 