A day for green
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One of the things that most inspired me about blogging has been something that pops up now and then called colour week. With one blogger announcing and hosting the week as it were, by posting photos from their life each with a certain colour as the focus. It sounds simple, and indeed it is, but I’ve always found it such a beautiful little peek into the things we notice every day, especially as I hopped from blog to blog to see how different the photos would be with the same colour at heart. Although it wasn’t something that I found in the circle of scrapbooking blogs, it was something that seemed like such a perfect project for a scrapbooker: taking time to document the colours of our everyday lives with photographs that could be blogged and possibly even end up in a crafty project or scrapbook page.
So this week, I hope you’re ready to pick up your camera. For each of the next seven days, we’ll focus on one colour each day. Get your camera in gear, take photos of that colour and share them with everyone if you would like! Join our Flickr group here, share photos on your blog, add them to the photography gallery at Two Peas or anywhere else you fancy. I have a little prize to give to one person each day…but I also think this is a project you might like even without the prize motivation! (But hey, prizes = fun, so there are still prizes!)
This week will be just about the photos: there will be posts with photos, about photography, and a few special guests will be stopping by to show you their favourite photographs. Next week, I promise there will be crafty goodness to coordinate, so don’t fret! (Plus that might give you time to catch up on a few of the challenges from last week!)
We start today…with the colour green. Take your camera around and see what green you can snap. Mix indoors and out, day and night if you like…and share your favourites. See what stories you find hiding in the greens of your day.
Be sure to leave a comment here with your favourite green shot or a link to your green post elsewhere. I’ll draw a name from all the comments for an 8×10 art print – entries close at the end of June, just like the other Month of Colour challenges.
Can’t wait to see everyone’s green images!
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8 June 2009, 10:46
Love the little green pots!!
8 June 2009, 13:32
This is my kind of challenge!! My green pics are on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21446162@N02/sets/72157619360988101/
Thanks
8 June 2009, 16:33
Great photos. I have joined the Flickr group and added my colour green photos.
8 June 2009, 16:43
Love your espresso photo! Enjoyed this one – my photos are here
8 June 2009, 17:30
I’ve joined the Flickr group and added my favourite green photo of the day.
8 June 2009, 22:57
green is my favorite. really, my second favorite that never changes. photos in the flick group and on my blog.
9 June 2009, 05:36
Here’s my green photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7775804@N08/3610542894/
9 June 2009, 06:49
My green pictures are here. This is a perfect challenge for a week off work, great timing.
http://kathyisshopping.blogspot.com/2009/06/day-for-green.html
9 June 2009, 07:04
I’ve just been blogging my green photos:
http://glitteradventure.blogspot.com/2009/06/month-of-colour.html
9 June 2009, 11:06
I had no idea how many shades of green there are and how much green there is out there until I started looking. The trees are fabulous at this time of year. I have uploaded some of my pics to my flickr page .
9 June 2009, 16:42
Here’s a link to my favorite green picture. Thank you for the inspiration! I can’t wait to see what I end up with a whole week of colors. :) Green
10 June 2009, 07:54
I’ve uploaded my green photo here- in my Flickr gallery.
10 June 2009, 19:58
Loved this – a few of my green shots are on my blog and a couple in the flikr album now I have recalled my password!!
11 June 2009, 08:37
just meandered here from Ali’s blog…beautiful & lovely inspiration…thank you! here are a few “green” pics…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetpeaink/3603788551/in/pool-amonthofcolour
11 June 2009, 19:33
My green photos are here.
14 June 2009, 13:31
I am reading this a week late but I definitely feel super inspired by it!!! Will take “green” photos all of this week and make a post about them :) Thank you for this fun idea!
15 June 2009, 01:01
I just uploaded my best green shot of the day in the Flickr group :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/12571147@N07/3628011632/in/pool-amonthofcolour
15 June 2009, 09:52
http://molescreations.blogspot.com/
Here’s my go at green.
16 June 2009, 03:27
OK, between those amazing green pans and the fact you appear to know how a plant propagator works, I think I may need to move in. : )
16 June 2009, 04:28
Mine is up on Flickr.
17 June 2009, 10:40
Here’s mine :)
26 June 2009, 17:11
Mine is of some perfectly beautiful ivy I spotted growing on a wall the other day – here on Flickr.
27 June 2009, 04:53
I couldn’t help myself and have a second green pic. Added to flickr here
30 June 2009, 18:37
Here my photos :)