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Red lines

October 31, 2019 XingfuMama 7 Comments

Rows of red tulips growing in the Skagit Valley in Washington State. — On a gray day it seems like the red of the tulips glows.

Since I started with red lines I thought I’d end with them as well. I feel like I ran a marathon posting every day for a month. Maybe the habit will stick and I’ll be more regular in the future.

Many thanks to Becky of Winchester for hosting this great challenge. I learned a lot about composition as I looked at people’s squares this month and spent time reshaping my own pictures to look at least okay as squares.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares-day 31.

Snapshots from a Happy Life

Fall up close

October 21, 2019 XingfuMama 3 Comments

Close up of a leaf in fall, showing reds and yellows. — Close up of a leaf. This one couldn’t decide what color it wanted to be.

Seed pods of a tiny flower. — I don’t remember what kind of flower this was, but the seed pods look like stars.

The fall reds and yellows of a Himalayan blackberry leaf. — Even the lowly blackberry is putting on a show.

For Sunshine’s Macro-Monday

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Red hot

September 12, 2018 XingfuMama Leave a comment

This is an art installation at Carlisle Castle called “Poppies: Weeping Window” in remembrance of the lives lost in World War One. The 100th anniversary of Armistice Day is this year. In the USA we often forget it’s origin because we call it “Veteran’s Day” and it has become a more general celebration of appreciation for those who serve in the armed forces. Can you imagine how difficult it must have been to arrange all of those individual ceramic poppies?

Red seems to dominate any picture it is in. For someone who doesn’t really care for red I seem to have a lot of pictures where it dominates the composition:

Irish pony and stop sign.

Red plow at a folk life museum in County Kerry.

Red prayer ribbons at Tian Hao Temple in Qingdao, China.

May 4th sculpture in Qingdao, China.

Lanterns and shan zha (hawthorn) on National Day in Weifang China.

Prayer ribbons on a fence at a temple on Taishan, Shandong Province, China.

Food street in Weifang, China.

Stop sign at Glacier National Park, Montana

Red bus tour bus at Glacier National Park.

Red peppers at a market in Shouguang, China.

Red lace leaf maple at the arboretum at South Seattle College.

Kite at Weifang International Kite Festival, China/

China, Snapshots from a Happy Life

A photo a week: Red

February 16, 2017 XingfuMama 4 Comments

I don”t like red all that much, so I was surprised to see how many pictures I have where it is the star. These were all taken last April, most of them in China, where red is auspicious.

Posted for Nancy Merrill’s A photo a week challenge: Red

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