Weekly Photo Challenge: The hue of you
Nature’s muted tones…faded, jaded and slightly washed out.
Cheri’s challenge: ‘For this challenge, we want to keep it simple: share a photograph with a prominent color (or assortment of colors) that reveals more about you. It could be a symbolic, meaningful shade; a color that expresses how you currently feel; or a combination of colors that excites you and tells a visual story.’
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/hue-photo-challenge/
If these are indeed ‘shades of’ you at the moment, I hope you’re mostly feeling subdued or the enjoyable, contemplative kind of melancholy rather than anything worse. But as for me, just being near a shore and seeing the unexpectedly jewel-like sparkle of wet stones, the ethereal tangle of abandoned net and shredded boat lines, and comfortably worn boat hulls makes me feel ever so much better. May you find the same pleasure in them that you have given me! 🙂
Cheers,
Kathryn
PS–Meticulous Mick sent me, and I’m very glad to have arrived. I’ll return!
Kathryn, I was very grateful to MM for sending you my way. Looking forward to a long return visit as I really love your way with words, your wit, your humour, your honesty etc.etc.
All the photos capture the theme so well but I’ll go for the upside down boat. This photo has so much atmosphere – such a sense of loneliness and abandonment.
That boat called out to me too. 🙂
I love the last one!
Thank you!
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I love the last photograph, I love shiny grays 🙂
Thank you. Me too! The water has intensified the colours but they look very pretty when dry too. 🙂
I hope you are not feeling jaded, faded, washed out? Exam time here in the house and the adult student is looking thus. I love the hues you found……I must look with the same “eyedea” next time I am at the beach.
I am a bit. I had planned a longer post about my lacklustre state, not just in terms of energy levels and mood, but also my thoughts about colour (or lack of). The words sum it up really and I suppose the images say it too. My severe editing of the post may have lost it all in translation but you are obviously tuned in! Thank you for your comment.
Hiding our patches of lacklustr’dness seems a common feature as we soldier on. I know I don’t show my vulnerability often on my blog. I am slowly learning to soften into these patches and your hues here speak to me of that softening. We beat ourselves up so much. Namaste:-)
So true. Thank you 🙂
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Like the pastel colours and the polished pebbles in particular. Sherkin stones I presume. MM 🍀
Thanks, MM. Yes, they were all taken on Sherkin Island. There are some really lovely subtle colours in the beach pebbles there.
Mellow softness in these images P – I’ve enjoyed each little nuance of colour just looking and looking .. dove grey, crushed raspberry, and aqua of the inner surf as it rolls ..ah the Sea ..
Lucky P with your bolt hole over on Sherkin Island 🙂
You have such a lovely way with words, Mrs. Thank you, P
I love the beach glass in the middle of the pebbles.
Thanks Deb, I find myself scanning the beach for sea glass as I walk along and find it in pockets long after I have left the island. Just can’t pass a piece without picking it up!
We do the same. I love keeping it in jars displaying all the colors.
Beautiful hues… 🙂
Thank you.P
lovely, though I wouldn’t want to be untangling those nets!
Reminds me of my hair after all of this rain…. 🙂
oh dear, I know what you mean!