The sound of colours

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble. — Wassily Kandinsky

One Word Sunday | Yellow

(almost) Silent Sunday

Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Image: Su Leslie, 2018

“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” — Conor Oberst

Wordless Wednesday

Hydrangea flowers. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

Friday flowers

Kowhai flower cluster. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

Friday flowers

Seen at the Savage Memorial, Bastion Point, Auckland. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

 

Wordless Wednesday

Remembering summer, and hydrangea blooms. Image: Su Leslie, 2016

Antidotes to a gloomy Sunday

Yellow dahlias, seen at Hamilton Gardens, Waikato, New Zealand. Image: Su Leslie, 2016

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: hue of me

“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” Conor Oberst

Yellow is a colour of contradictions; on one hand we associate it with wealth, sunshine, optimism and happiness – and on the other with cowardice, jealousy and caution.

Yeah, sounds like  me – apart from the wealth bit.

I don’t wear yellow much any more, and the last time I decorated a room with it was when we did the boy-child’s nursery in blue and yellow with “raining cats and dogs” Ikea-print curtains.

It’s a colour I photograph a lot, and one I paint with, though mostly round the gold end of the yellow spectrum there.

“Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you’re real and brutally honest. “ Rosie O’Donnell, Celebrity Detox.

“As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.” Ovid.

“ “gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold”.’
‘Is there a chorus?’
‘ “Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold”.’ said Hwel.
‘You left out a “gold” there.” Terry Pratchett

This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge theme is “the hue of you.“

Here are some posts I enjoyed:

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

http://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/hue-of-you/

Tangled up in Blue

http://sixdegreesphotography.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/weekly-photo-challenge-the-hue-of-you/

http://maxim061156.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-the-hue-of-you/

http://yournibblednews.wordpress.com/

http://suburbanferndaleark.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-hue/

http://aboutgivingandreceiving.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-the-hue-of-you/