Seeing blue

Did I tell you I started a photography club at work? A friend of mine got a camera (not a Nikon, sadly...) almost at the same time as me. We were both excited, carrying our cameras everywhere and taking photos of everything. We got talking about how we sometimes felt too shy to stop and take a photo in the middle of the street, specially when you have to get on your knees, or you're seemingly taking a photo of something irrelevant on the road and people wonder what you are doing...

So we got a group of friends together and now we choose a topic and go out once a month during our lunchtime to take photos around Oxford. Last month we took photos of blue things and next week we're expanding the theme to take photos of blocks of colour. We're going to submit the best ones to the Tate Liverpool Colour chart group in Flickr.

These are some of the ones I took last month. It's amazing what you see when you start looking, there was blue everywhere!

Inspired by nature...

We spent the weekend with J's family. They live in the countryside, and we all made the most of the lovely weather (EVERYONE was talking about it in England) and went for a walk in the woods. I loved the different colours that we could see around, specially the blue among the trees, and the yellow light of the sunset.

Hemos pasado el fin de semana con la familia de J. Viven en el campo y hemos disfrutado mucho del tiempo (como siempre, el tiempo dicta lo que se puede y no se puede hacer en Inglaterra), sobre todo cuando decidimos ir de paseo por el bosque cerca de su casa. Los colores que nos rodeaban eran preciosos, sobre todo el azul que podíamos entrever cuando los árboles nos dejaban, y el amarillo de la puesta de sol.

Lucyna Moodie

This photo seen on Purple Area took me to Lucyna Moodie's online portfolio. I love how she uses colour and flowers for special touches in the spaces she styles.

Pinchando en la foto de arriba, que vi en Purple Area, encontré el portfolio de Lucyna Moodie. Me encanta como usa el color y las flores para añadir toques especiales a los espacios que decora.

More yellow

Parece que no soy la única a la que le gusta el amarillo. En la última media hora lo he visto en Habitually Chic, The City Sage y en This is love forever. Estas dos últimas mencionan a Twig Hutchinson, que es la estilista de esta foto, que me encaaaanta.

It seems I'm not the only one who likes yellow. In the last hour only I have seen it in Habitually Chic, The City Sage and in This is love forever. The last two mention Twig Hutchinson, stylist of what it has to be my favourite photo at the moment:


Por si eso no fuera suficiente, los expertos tambien afirman que el amarillo es el color del 2009. La alegría, la vitalidad y el optimismo del amarillo es algo que el mundo necesita ahora mismo, ¿no creeis?

As if that wasn't enough, the experts are also predicting that yellow is THE colour of 2009. The world definitely needs some of the joy, vitality and optimism that yellow brings, don't you think?

Photo @ Twig Hutchinson