Something a bit brighter for these crazy times.

Colour seemed to unleash a lot in those who have submitted this time around, so enjoy!

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Name: Cooking-Post Nerd

Location: United Kingdom

Note: I managed to escape from my kitchen and made it out into the garden. Nature has moved on while humanity has paused, and the April sunshine has brought the plants and flowers out. I love lilac, and this starburst of a shot, with a really narrow depth of field, is my submission this month!

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Name: Killing Time With A Camera … (https://steviegill.wordpress.com/)

Location: Queen Street East, Toronto

Note: A few weeks ago, someone started placing colourful plastic flowers on benches, lampposts, etc in our neighbourhood. I have no idea what the significance of this is, whether it’s related to spring, Easter, or perhaps as a symbol of hope during these trying times. Anyway, this fabulous plastic rose is attached to a community noticeboard that I pass on my way to the Valu-Mart (got to love North America!), and seeing it adds a little splash of colour and also a sense of mystery to my day!

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Name: Postcard Cafe https://postcardcafe.wordpress.com

Location: Hunters Bar, Sheffield  

Note: This long exposure shot was taken while shooting a night time ‘9 in 45’ (click the link if you wish to know more about 9 in 45).  The location of this shot was determined not by me but by the rules of 9 in 45! A long exposure introduced the colour trails of passing cars and a quick edit in Photoshop isolated them and the grass verge from the rest of the shot. Both the presence and absence of colour in the one image.  I like the minimal aspect of the composition and the colours between the gate posts on the left hand side, which look like someone has stretched some plastic sheeting across! 

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Name: Cap Does Craft

Location: Attercliffe, South Yorkshire  

Note: This shot is of the Gripple factory in Attercliffe.  They are a wonderful, forward thinking, innovative company and the design of their building reflects how they do things differently.  This is a small section of one of their buildings.  Without the colour and reflective elements to the windows this could just be a grey industrial building which might not be given a second glance.  The colour is what lifts this image to something far more interesting.  

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Name: CKPonderingsToo

Location: Taunton, Somerset

Note: Again, while curating this post, I became very conscious that I had not really connected to what I was going to include. On my one-a-day I have still been taking photos, but nothing really leapt out at me. So, I have dug a bit deeper with this one, looking pre-lockdown, and my first visit to the (now) local town of Taunton. One one street corner, a hoarding hiding a patch of disused land, is this piece of street art. It leapt out at me as a potential photograph, and, with a slight tweak here and there, it soon matched this month’s theme.

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Name: Doctor Ken, Gin Sop

Location: Somerset

Note: A sign of our times that caught my eye. Still, it’s a splash of colour in a seemingly endless grey…

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