Shooting Yellow

Carmi's latest challenge is the subject 'yellow', a colour occasionally seen in nature and associated with spring, but more often used when something in the material world has to stand out as a warning.

Natural...

So today, armed with my DSLR and only an old style manual focus lens which gave an effective 100mm f1.2 and threw everything out of focus beautifully and, feeling as if I had turned the clock back over 30 years to photographic college, I went to shoot ‘yellow’. Naturally , because my life would not have been worth living had I left him behind, I was accompanied by our GR Dexter, who was happy to leave me to it most of the time but disapproved with great indignity whenever we stopped (and he was on the lead) by the side of the road.

Rubbish, signs, a solitary metal post, barriers, new gas pipes being installed, speed cameras, cycling jackets and of course those little yellow boxes that the postman used to bring containing those wonderful Kodachrome 25 images....

Throw-away Pizza...


Just don't even think of parking here....


Identity Crisis...

Information...

Purposeless...

Graffiti...


Speed control ....

If water is Blue...
...and Gas is yellow ...

...these are....


... going to cause traffic chaos ...


Recycled scaffolding...


Un-recycled wrapper...

Work in progress...


On pavement parking...


The most recognisable yellow box..

DIY....

Yellow for green travel...


Shooting a single colour concentrates the mind and I only deviated slightly, as you can see on Dexter’s blog. I suppose to be really disciplined I should have taken my pinhole camera and taken one good ‘yellow image’, or even a roll of 12 exposures. Of course with digital we could make any image ‘yellow’…