October Challenge: ORANGE

[Sybille Reuter]

Here we go, first time I get to pick a topic after shamefully taking advantage of people's misery with the photo of chernobyl gas masks in Colin's heartbreak-induced September challenge. 

 

But now for something completely different! 

 

I went for a colour theme again - autumnal and underrated, cheerful with a potential for gloomy:

 

                                                    ORANGE

 

Looking forward to what you make of the topic - with anything from autumn forests to pumpkins, sunrises to sunsets, tangerines to tigers, the orange menace to Jason Orange, from Orange County to Orange, France... 

 

 

 

Quote

 

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.     

 

Wassily Kandinsky

 

 

As usual, entries (up to three) will be accepted until the last day of the month, then I'll pick the shortlist for the public vote. 

Post away! 

Edited October 8, 2020 by Sybille Reuter

[spacecadet]

I thought I'd come up dry, but remarkably I have 110 search hits for "orange".

 

Spritz Aperol, Strasbourg. On a raft.

Kos town

Ford Taunus 17M P3 'Badewanne' ('Bathtub') saloon car, 1961-4, with statues of Tünnes and Schäl, Stadtmuseum, Köln

Edited October 8, 2020 by spacecadet

[Michael Ventura]

Great winning pic Sybille! Congrats.  Fun challenge.  Here are my three.

 

1) Orange sunset, St Kitts, West Indies

 

 

 

2) Orange mod looking chair

 

 

4) Orange rust and lichen on a stone wall

 

[Lori Rider]

Congrats Sybille on your win! I too was surprised how many photos I have with "orange" in the keywords. Here are my three:

 

Orange Line MBTA trains in Boston

 

 

Orange gourds

 

 

Orange tabby in Stralsund, Germany

 

[Colin Woods]

I am loving Michael Ventura's orange chair. I would probably have just sat on it and complained that there was nothing to take pictures of. 😀

[Colin Woods]

Three from me

 

 

 

Autumn maple leaf colours

 

 

 

The famous fishing nets at Cochin in India

 

 

 

Two Indian ladies walking in the magical Royal Palace at Madurai in India

Edited October 8, 2020 by Colin Woods

[wiskerke]

AJ7KWG -  It's that time of year again.

 

CTJ4NP - Dutch tulips

 

CP2FPY - It's him again, the orange guy. King's Day in Amsterdam.

 

wim

[meanderingemu]

curious, did everyone find their images using "Orange" as a search?  Wondering because i think i am weak in using colours in my descriptions and KW.

[wiskerke]

1 minute ago, meanderingemu said:

curious, did everyone find their images using "Orange" as a search?  Wondering because i think i am weak in using colours in my descriptions and KW.

 

As always AoA is your friend. Check if it's really useful to include colors/colours in your keywords.

21 pages @100 including many Clockwork Oranges and some Orange County and Orange is the New Black obviously.

Hmm maybe I should better check some more too.

 

wim

[meanderingemu]

5 minutes ago, wiskerke said:

 

As always AoA is your friend. Check if it's really useful to include colors/colours in your keywords.

21 pages @100 including many Clockwork Oranges and some Orange County and Orange is the New Black obviously.

Hmm maybe I should better check some more too.

 

wim

 

interesting, as for example i would not have had "orange" anywhere in your pumpkin image,  but yes obviously with the "orange" guy

[Michael Ventura]

 

44 minutes ago, meanderingemu said:

curious, did everyone find their images using "Orange" as a search?  Wondering because i think i am weak in using colours in my descriptions and KW.

 

In my case, yes.  If I have a dominant color in my photo, I will put it in my keywords.

Edited October 8, 2020 by Michael Ventura

[spacecadet]

49 minutes ago, meanderingemu said:

curious, did everyone find their images using "Orange" as a search?  Wondering because i think i am weak in using colours in my descriptions and KW.

Yes.

If it's a feature of the image it should be in. Orange car, orange drink, orange ice cream.

[Stokie]

I've noticed I hadn't put orange in some of my sunset photos.

 

When I did a search for 'orange' I had 180 images come up.

 

I'm reluctant to put orange in some images in case I get too many searches looking for an Orange!

 

If the colour is dominant I usually put that in, whatever the colour is.

 

John.

 

 

[Allan Bell]

I have 157 images with "Orange" in the tags. A bit late in the day for me so I will make a selection tomorrow.

 

Allan

 

[John Mitchell]

Congratulations on your win, Sybille. A colourful challenge choice. Here are my three orange offerings.

 

Orange carrots

 

 

 

Orange chairs

 

 

 

Orange Halloween spider webs

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by John Mitchell

[Doc]

Great winning image Sybille, here are my three:

 

1. Orange tulips in close-up:

 

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2. Orange vintage american car, Havana, Cuba:

 

 

 

3. One orange Cichlid fish among darker Cichlids:

 

 

 

Kumar

[wiskerke]

1 hour ago, Doc said:

3. One orange Cichlid fish among darker Cichlids:

 

Rumble Fish! Trailer. About.

Where's my Tri-X.

 

wim

[Cal]

Orange is a category I can definitely do.

 

 

Mute swan preening and making herself beautiful. Their beaks turn bright orange at maturity, approx 2 years in, so you can tell a younger swan because the beak is a more pale pink.

 

 

Sunset over Rivington Pike Tower, Lancashire

 

 

 

An almost totally intact row of 180W SOX lamps on the UK M60 motorway around Bredbury. These are now a dying breed on the UK's roads as the last SOX factory, Philips, 

in Hamilton, Scotland recently closed, so lamps are in rapidly dwindling supply. They produce monochromatic light at 589nm and are extremely efficient - 200 lumens/Watt on the large E designated lamps. The bad news? They're huge, so the fittings are huge unwieldy monsters.

Edited October 8, 2020 by Cal

[cbimages]

Male & female orange clownfish, tending orange eggs laid next to their orange based anemone.

 

Orange Mantis Shrimp, face and chest peering out of burrow.

 

Juvenile Frogfish

Edited October 9, 2020 by cbimages

[gvallee]

Joshua Trees silhouetted at sunset

 

Patterns formed by drying mud on a red dirt road

 

Bryce Canyon

 

 

[Allan Bell]

Large model of Fokker Dr.I triplane with builder

 

 

 

Sunset over Arun Valley

 

 

 

Veteran 1942 Allis Chalmers type B tractor

 

 

Allan

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Allan Bell

[Phil Crean]

Oranges on a stick...

 

Another Cuban orange car...!

 

Orange prickly pear flowers...

 

Phil

[meanderingemu]

22 hours ago, Michael Ventura said:

 

 

In my case, yes.  If I have a dominant color in my photo, I will put it in my keywords.

 

 

21 hours ago, spacecadet said:

Yes.

If it's a feature of the image it should be in. Orange car, orange drink, orange ice cream.

 

 

thanks, i guess i only do it when it's not obvious from the subject, or peculiar.    I have done "Orange Car", but would not have had Orange on a pumpkin image, and I realise this is a North American mistake as for many other places pumpkin would also include squashes,

so i'll pick better example, i have "Yellow rose" but not "Yellow sunflower".  So another project for when it gets cold

[spacecadet]

1 minute ago, meanderingemu said:

 

 

 

 

thanks, i guess i only do it when it's not obvious from the subject, or peculiar.    I have done "Orange Car", but would not have had Orange on a pumpkin image, and I realise this is a North American mistake as for many other places pumpkin would also include squashes,

so i'll pick better example, i have "Yellow rose" but not "Yellow sunflower".  So another project for when it gets cold

In my example about a quarter of the picture area is orange so it's a must! I have other images of Halloween displays with incidental orange squashes and haven't included it.

Cars, however- I think I've had a licence of a Rolls-Royce that was found because it was tagged as silver.

[meanderingemu]

37 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

In my example about a quarter of the picture area is orange so it's a must! I have other images of Halloween displays with incidental orange squashes and haven't included it.

Cars, however- I think I've had a licence of a Rolls-Royce that was found because it was tagged as silver.

 

thanks.  Yes car is an obvious for me also, it's more the desert, street light and sunset images that i haven't done, mainly from a false positive side.  I remember having a picture with mainly Blue sky and a train in horizon.  All i got were hits for "Blue Train".