Red flowers have more boldness than any other flower. They’re rich and dramatic. If there’s just one in a scene or an arrangement, that’s where our eyes are drawn.
I’ve always found them a challenge to photograph, as the colour the camera captures tends not to match the colour our eyes see, but I have these to offer.
Shared for Life In Colour: Red.
I’d drafted this floral post ready to link in, and was feeling pleased with myself until I discovered that Jude is requesting forms of transport. I prepared to improvise.
Let me try out a few ideas. Flowers, by their very nature are a form of transport – they will produce seeds designed to go somewhere else to sprout? The sweet peas had been transported from the garden to get in the dinky vase at the flower show? I had travelled in a train, plane and car to see the passion flower (though not just for that, attractive though it was)?
I reckon I could have got away with it, but am adding an insurance policy:
Now all I have to do is work out a way to contend that a neon car can be a red flower, in order to suit the title.
What a wake-up color! Better than coffee (almost). I rarely see a red in my photos that captures the reality; I have to wonder if red is deliberately elusive so we don’t take it for granted. As for flowers and transport, I thoroughly enjoyed the morning stretch!
I am sure you’re right about the elusiveness of red. In fact when researching today’s post, I discovered that a gnome’s pointy hat is often red for that very reason – it conveys a degree of invisibility.
No kidding? That is fascinating!
These reds really are glorious! I’m in love with that red passionflower – wish I could grow it here!
Me too – that passionflower is a very pure red.
The Passiflora vitifolia is wild. Beautiful photos.
Thanks, Timothy.
Most enjoyable! I vote you in! 😉
Thanks for the backing, Eliza.
I am comforted to know that you also find red a difficult colour to capture in a photograph. Neither my camera no my cellphone will do justice to reds, pinks or even bright yellow flowers! You have selected some lovely looking flowers here.
I used to have terrible trouble with blues too! Colours are slippery things, perhaps even more so than we imagine.
Red flowers are difficult to photograph, so I appreciate your offerings. And the transport link made me smile. I think I may have some red flowers sometime during the month, so perhaps you can hunt out a few more?
I might manage the odd one!
I struggle with photographing red flowers too and it’s my favourite colour! I love how you incorporated flowers into a form of transport.
I’m pretty sure that’s not what Jude was expecting, though!
Brilliant. Flowers are a nightmare to capture the true colour of. Blue is my particular problem.
I used to find blue impossible with my old Canon.
As I do with my Panasonic.
The red rose is just stunning. As for the transport, I had a very odd friend, many years ago, who called her mini “Flower”. Would that help?
It helps enormously!
A great effort, Susan. That rose is lovely but my favourite is the passion flower. I’ve seen very few of that colour. And see what happens when you’re organised? I seldom schedule….
You’re so right.