Photos, videos and docs of Annalia S., with the keywords: "red"

Happy Holidays, everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:16:42 +0000

Wishing everyone the best for this holiday season and for the new year. May we have good cheer despite it all and find strength and warmth wherever it can be had. May we have patience with those we just cannot understand, determination to continue to strive for our battered planet and time, health and good light for our photography!

Happy (Wet) Wall Wednesday!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:40:31 +0000

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Red garlands - HFF! (PIPs!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:37:35 +0000

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Fences and vines have a natural affinity for each other and autumn is when it shows its full colors! :)
HFF everyone and have a great weekend!

P.S. Thinking of all our friends in the northern European countries that are dealing with the scary and discouraging Covid surges.

festooned HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:48:50 +0000

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Interstate exit ramp. Just give Nature a bit of purchase and She'll find a way to make art anywhere!

Happy Festooned Autumn Fence Friday, everyone, and have a great weekend!

Sunflower gate - HFF! (PIP)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:18:00 +0000

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Old ironwork with sunflower decorations and, for once, a wide open gate!
In the pip, the other half of the gate showing off its red color against an equally colorful rose bush.

Happy Red Fence Friday and wishing everyone a colorful weekend!

red bike - HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:15:52 +0000

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By the fence of the Isolotto children's playground. No children around at this hour (too frigging hot!), but someone found a pole to secure their brightly coloured bike.

Happy Colorful Fence Friday, everyone and an equally bright coloured weekend!

color magic and the pomegranate tree (PIPs)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:58:11 +0000

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I was about 5 years old when my art teacher father got me my first serious painting kit. He wanted to get me oil based paints, but my mother put her foot down, so we went for more washable tempera paints. The art supply store, with its profusion of colors, its smells and mind boggling variety of brushes, spatulas, easels and palettes, was like a rutilant wonderland to me, better than any stores, even better than the toy store! What part of this phantasmagoria would be mine to take home, I wondered, excitedly. My dad took a long time selecting brushes, checking what hairs they were made of and picking different shapes and sizes. He explained his choices to me, but all I remember now is the wonder of the different textures: boar hairs were coarse and rigid, others as smooth as silk, and others even more incredibly light and almost feathery and would tickle the palm of your hand if you ran them across it.

The paint tubes themselves, however, did not take long: a large tube of white, an equally large tube of black and four smaller tubes: yellow, blue and two kinds of red. Considering the endless variety of colors offered by the store, some of them - flowery pinks, aqua greens, light and dark turquoises - just irresistible to a young girl, this was a bit disappointing. “What about the other colors, Dad?” I asked. He smiled and said “You’ll see”. As we headed home he elaborated a bit on that rather unsatisfying answer: “You can make any color you saw in the store from the ones we got”. That sounded more hopeful, but I still couldn’t see how red, blue or yellow could be turned to aqua green or turquoise, or shocking pink. It sounded like some magic trick would be required. At 5 years of age, kids tend to believe their parents are all powerful. But still, magic tricks didn’t seem like his cup of tea.

And yet, magic it was, of course. A wonderful magic that makes yellow and blue turn into a whole palette of greens depending on how much of each gets mixed in. And red and yellow into orange, blue and red into purple, but … wait! Red was a bit different; to get the right results, red had to come in two different versions: scarlet and vermillion. You needed scarlet red to make purple and vermillion red to make a proper orange. Switch them around and the magic would not work right. Vermillion red and blue made brown, not purple. And scarlet and yellow made a sort of salmon pink instead of orange.

I understood the principle and could see some difference in those two colors, but still, red is red, isn’t it? Vermillion just seemed a little lighter and perhaps more brilliant than scarlet, but still it was just red to me. I did not really “get” vermillion, not until - that is - I saw my first pomegranate tree, or rather, the absolutely flamboyant flowers of the pomegranate tree. If you have ever seen them in real life, I think you’ll agree that “red” just does not do justice to them, doesn’t even begin to describe their happy, sunny, light-filled color that stands out so strikingly against the brilliant green of the leaves.

The main photo and PIPs are all from two beautiful pomegranate trees in Piazza Savonarola's little city park which, this time of year, are in full bloom. I swear I must have spent nearly an hour there, shooting this way and that, into the trees and under the trees, sticking my camera through the branches to get close to the busy bees that were visiting their beautiful vermillion flowers. I hope you enjoy … well, I can’t say the fruit of my labour. It’s not really labour when you are having that much fun, is it? :)

This is especially dedicated to Andy and Maurice (HappySnapper) who are going through tough times.

Errata corrige: Upon rereading I realize I used the wrong red for the one that gives purple if mixed with blue: it's carmine, not scarlet! Sorry. Should re-read my stuff before I publish! :))

Falling angels underpass

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:45:56 +0000

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Falling angels in primary colors at the underpass.

For Andy

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Thu, 06 May 2021 14:52:38 +0000

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All of us, "fish in the pond", are waiting for you to get back and play with us!

Annalia

poppy core

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:06:35 +0000

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inside a wild poppy

(either that or a UFO landing in a lava filled crater ... :D )

Riverside chat - HBM!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:44:33 +0000

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The light of the westering sun shines on two friends as they take a break from their riverside walk.
HBM and have a nice week, everyone!

fiery fence HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:22:19 +0000

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The last light streams in laterally and lights up the top of a hedge fence. This may look like autumn, but it's actually spring: the new leaves in this particular plant are red, pink or pale gold until they can synthetize enough chlorophyl to turn green (see a close up in the PIP). The grey background is the back of a climbing crag facility in the adjacent lot.

So, here's hoping you all have a fiery HFF!

light at play in the garden (PIPs!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 14:27:22 +0000

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Spring brings new life and playful light to my garden.

everybody is waking up! (PIPS)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:09:42 +0000

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Somewhere the great alarm clock of Nature went off while I wasn't listening. But everyone else out there, whether plant or animal, seems to have been paying attention!

Prato's fences (PIPs) HFF!

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:11:48 +0000

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Stairs leading to the entrance to the Buonamici Garden in Prato.
In the PIPs:
1. the lady in red - Prato's Palazzo Pretorio square;
2. the blue umbrella - Prato's Emperor's Castle;
3. shoe-decorated wheelchair ramp at Prato's university campus.

HAPPY FENCE FRIDAY, everyone!

colorful berries (PIPS!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:49:17 +0000

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When we think of fall colors, autumn leaves are the first thing that comes to mind, but berries also contribute their startling hues to the season!

autumn on the wall

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:34:52 +0000

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One can always count on the Virginia creeper to put up an amazing autumn show. This particular colorful curtain was overshadowing a wall by the Arno River Bank path and I had to literally wait my turn to take a couple of shots of it, as nearly everybody who was out for a Saturday afternoon walk seemed to have fallen for its charm.
In the pip: a closer look at the berries.

Hope everyone had a good weekend despite the lockdowns that are either already en force or looming on the horizon. I confess I spent it outside taking pictures instead of answering your kind and generous comments. I know you will forgive me since it looks like we might soon be confined at home again (parts of Italy might be given lockdown orders already on Monday).

in the black bowl

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:24:40 +0000

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While working my way through this autumn delight, I noticed the reflections from the window in the black bowl and thought they made an interesting combination with the bright red grains of the pomegranate.

first bits of color

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:28:40 +0000

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We have not had really cool temps yet and the leaves are just starting to turn. So this was my first opportunity to catch some autumn color!

clinic's playground

nobody@ipernity.com (Annalia S.) — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:20:17 +0000

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A second HFF for you today.
At the clinic where I go for my eyedoctor's visits, the volunteers of the nearby ambulance service have equipped the garden with toys for children who come for their check ups, so parents will find it easier to keep them entertained while waiting or to soothe them afterwards. The fence keeps them from riding their toy cars into the neighbors' gardens, I guess!

Happy Fence Friday!