Emptiness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #153
Carpe Diem’s Quest For A (New) Masterpiece
#3 the quest continues
My latest haiku came quickly when I saw a superb photo by Cee Neuner. While I gave the haiku a title to make it intelligible w/o the photo, I also requested and received permission to share the photo in a post.
Red and Yellow Dahlia
Amid swirling flames,
pollen and nectar beckon.
Bee stays calm and cool.
I often look at things from an odd angle. Red trillium plants like shade, grow low, and have flowers that face downward. Now is your chance to get a from-below view of a red trillium flower, in a mix of reflected and transmitted sunlight:
Figuratively, I sometimes “look” at a neat little thing from an odd angle to shine some light on a messy big thing with a subtle similarity to the little thing. For example, there is a parallel between the history of a little word puzzle’s instructions and the history of a big idea in economics.
Some of my photos with prominent reds were used outside of CFFC. The following images link to posts that use them in ways that may be surprizing. Can U guess what ideas they illustrate before following the links?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lime or Light Green
New leaves often display a version of lime.
Actual limes display several versions of lime on the outside and …
… yet another version on the inside.
Got tequila?
A bottle of premixed margaritas is convenient, but the contents are too sweet for me. To get a drier margarita with minimal mixological effort, I use roughly equal amounts of premixed margarita and dry white wine. Tho admittedly not a world-class margarita, the result is a good no-fuss drink.
In response to One Word Sunday — Threesome, a threesome of floral threesomes pushes the envelope of what flower pix can illustrate.
As Susie left home to start a new life with Dale, her mother watched and wondered. Would the mixed marriage work?
Other floral threesomes can illustrate a poem and a point that go beyond flowers. The following images link to earlier posts that use them. Can U guess what the posts are about before clicking on the images?
I used 3 clusters of rhododendron blossoms to illustrate an abstract haiku.
In about 40 yrs of making bouquets from the many daylilies in my yard, how often have I seen 3 flowers blooming on just 1 stalk? Exactly once, on the left in this bouquet.
With 3 separate stalks, the commonplace floral threesome on the right is a freebie, beyond what my title promises. Buy 3; get 4.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Teal, Aqua, Seafoam or Turquoise
What would I say is “the” color of the cloth in my image? Even more than with other colors, how it looks depends on lighting and surroundings. This pretty color is a visual metaphor: relationships mean more than intrinsic properties.
Colorful Plain English
Inkjets squirt cyan;
some poets sing of turquoise.
I just see blue-green.
For most purposes, I prefer blue-green (and 2 variations on it) over the other names. Anybody who knows what blue and green mean can guess what blue-green means. Those who need more choices for naming colors like this can put blue-green between bluish green (AKA aqua) and greenish blue (AKA turquoise). The 3 names I prefer are all clearer than names like aqua about where they lie on the range from just plain blue to just plain green.
Need still more choices? Use Red|Green|Blue coordinates. The 256x256x256 possible values for the RGB coordinates of a color can make more distinctions than U will ever need.
For example, the image below is a detail from the image above, with little yellow circles around 2 spots on the cloth, one relatively bright and another relatively dark. Most spots on the cloth have [R|G|B] between the bright spot’s [45|223|226] and the dark spot’s [0|48|86].
If U like one of those colors enough to want it as a text or background color, U can use the corresponding hexadecimal code (#2DDFE2 or #003056) in an HTML style sheet. Explicit hex codes avoid the bother of remembering the sometimes flaky conventional names for web colors.
Hex codes also provide flexibility. Colors rarely look the way one expects when picking a color by pointing to it in another context, as I noticed when I used colors from an image to add a haiku to the image and then to write text referring to parts of the haiku. Bumping coordinates up or down can adjust colors to look good in actual use.
Gratitude ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #150
Making a Peaceful Salad
Behold (with gratitude for green)
bright purple, red, and carotene.
Spinach leaves have saved the day,
and they taste good anyway.
No colors clash with green between.
