Contemplative Photography | Color Assignment

A few days ago while surfing through the piles of photography books Amazon has to offer I found out one that kept my attention.

It was not another “how to” kind of book but truly a “what if” kind of speech that asks the right questions, makes you think about what you are doing and at the end suggests exercises in order to put everything together.

After the first 56 pages of theory I was faced with my first assignment: color! The challenge was about going out (not looking for places we often think of being beautiful, “photogenic” nor ideal for this kind of task) and look at color out of context. In the author's words: “See the redness of red and the blueness of blue without superimposing anything on them at all” (...) “Look for bold, vivid colors”.

So I went through a street nearby the place I live...

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=R.+do+Dr.+Eduardo+Santos+Silva,+Porto,+Portugal&daddr=41.17381,-8.5868239+to:41.1727555,-8.5874349+to:Pra%C3%A7a+do+Marqu%C3%AAs+de+Pombal+168,+4000+Oporto,+Portugal+(Marqu%C3%AAs+de+Pombal)&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=41.16948,-8.595343&sspn=0.031853,0.073128&geocode=FcpSdAIdMPZ8_ym1Z2VdbGQkDTHMayeV6SWJyQ%3BFTJDdAIdufl8_ykZqXzvbmQkDTGBRwe0vesAEw%3BFRM_dAIdVvd8_ynlotcib2QkDTFB50m0vesAEw%3BFekRdAIdObJ8_yH1j-4DSKYi1w&mra=dpe&mrsp=2&sz=14&via=1,2&dirflg=w&z=14

and walked nearly 3 km looking for flashes of color.

I ended up with this... (just a few...)

Ups! I forgot I'm not allowed to photograph mother nature =D

I hope you'll like it!

PF