Autumn is the season when reds start to sing, though we associate the colour with Christmas too. There are a surprising number of shades of 'red'. It's a colour that sits well with the honeyed stone that built Saltaire. Quite a few of our houses have cheerful red doors and the sunflower below, just beginning to fade, looked good against that bright scarlet... what we Brits might call 'pillar-box red', after our scarlet mail boxes.
The purple-red of the Virginia creeper on the wall above is echoed in the house door of No 27, more of a cardinal red than a scarlet. Both are echoed in the new leaves of the shrub behind - a photinia, if I'm not mistaken.
I once read that a photo with a splash of red somewhere in it is more likely to win a photography competition than one with no red. Whether that's true or not, photos with red in them certainly have impact. I don't think either of these are competition winners but I like them both anyway.
The burgundy of the Virginia creeper has a nice ranger of colors.
ReplyDeleteI chose burgundy for my Chippendale living room furniture. It is much admired.
ReplyDeleteWe have fire-engine red still around, though the real engines are sometimes green/yellow these days. Not in our town, where the newest one is black. Anyway, your photos do capture the varieties of red. My fav is the first one.
ReplyDeleteI've head the same about book covers--red draws the eye and entices a browser to pick up. Love the sunflower shot!
ReplyDeleteWe've got places here where ivy does that as well. Most of our fall colours here are past their peak now.
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