Day 38 (Colour) - White Rose

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

A quote made famous in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this great tragedy, Romeo and Juliet are "star-crossed lovers" and cannot help their mutual attraction and fall in love, despite their feuding families. The rose metaphor comes in the play's famous balcony scene in a speech made by Juliet where she declares her love for Romeo despite him being a Montague. However, legend has it that the reference to the rose was an inside joke aimed at the Rose Theatre, the rival to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, whose toilet facilities were quite offensive on the nose and the reference to the rose was a sly dig at this fact!

Day 37 (Colour) - Rainbow Tulips

Rainbow Tulips was the title on this bunch of flowers, bought today from the local supermarket. Having looked at various bunches of flowers, I settled on these as they were the first type of flower my husband bought me twelve years ago for our first Valentines Day together. I've always had a fondness for tulips and especially like two-tone ones or unusually coloured ones. A little play on macro and depth of field and here you have todays picture.

Day 36 (Colour) - Orange

A little play with depth of field today using two oranges in the kitchen, complete with a hair from the aforementioned Black Beast. No matter how hard you try, she always leaves you a little reminder that she's with you at all times!

Day 35 (Colour) - And in the Red corner......

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....... representing todays picture, is a quarter of Red.

Day 34 (Colour) - Polka Dots

Without consciously thinking about it, todays picture incorporates the colours from the previous two blogs. After a full day at work and then my three hour class this evening, I realised when I got home I hadn't taken todays picture. And being tired and lazy, the picture is a fuzzy, slightly out-of-focus-due-to-camera-shake result. The aim was to get an abstract picture to include the colours theme but tiredness and the late hour of the day meant a bad picture was taken.

Day 33 (Colour) - Marigolds

Yellow marigolds anyone? I took a number of shots of these perched next to a sink but the depth of field didn't quite work. This was the better one overall. Totally unconstructed on my part, I quite liked the fact that the fingers are quite straight and plumped out rather than just flat or folded. They certainly caught my eye as I passed them!

Day 32 (Colour) - Blue Construction

January has come and gone, and it was a month of "getting started". It's now time to start putting some structure to the picture taking. And since the evenings aren't quite bright enough to give enough light after work for picture taking, I thought February could be the Colour month.

Today's picture was a constructed picture using the blue hard hat as the colour focus for today. Strong colours can make a dull picture just that little bit more interesting. And I can already predict we will have more constructed pictures this month incorporating the colour theme.