The Color for July, 2023 is Purple

A royal color indeed ...

SD14 street shot GIMP'd - highlight color unbalanced ...

Thanks Gents!

Hopefully Sattva will be along soon - there must be some really nice purples in Bharat aka India.

Spiced up vinca last summer with Sigma SD15 and 17-70mm lens. In my Sigma SD15 album on Flickr for full EXIF and larger sizes

SDIM3146 SD15 Vinca drama by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr

India = Colours. Lots of it. Yes.

Purple is going to be a challenge 😀

There is a good reason why its the royal colour!

I do have some photographs of Jacaranda in bloom during summer. Let me find them first.

Regards,
Sattva

Nice color contrast with green which is opposite on the color wheel:

Or go on the street looking for purple saris ... might be dangerous ... ho ho

The Jacaranda tree in bloom will have to wait.

The above though, are beautiful flowers in a barren, wind swept landscape at about 4700 mts. in Ladakh. En route to a high altitude pass which we were to cross during our climbing expedition last year.

Quite an accomplishment if you ask me. The flowers existence that is.

Ladakh is a harsh and desolate terrain...an extension of the Tibetan plateau, where average elevations hover around 3700 mts.

Unfortunately, i do not know the name of the flower. The local people with me were also clueless.

Regards,
Sattva

On your colour wheel, Ted, magenta (marked 300) is opposite to green -- which is OK.

As there are two independent variables for hue (the two opponent signals), I prefer a grid to a circle.

Thanks, Don,

I would never have known that.

Sandy's petals are about 15 deg towards red - which I guess you already measured.

The grid has values similar to angular positions within the CIELAB color circle albeit rotated 90 degs.

When comparing colors I use CIELAB to see how far apart they are.

Bug on herbertia lahue [edit]oops - not a Sigma image[/edit]

Ivy Leaved Toadflax.

Sigma fp camera, Topcon 58mm lens.

There is loads of ivy where I live, it grows on everything, walls, buildings, paths, trees, everywhere.

Yes, loads where I live too. It's a very successful plant.

However, the plant in that photo is so named because it looks rather like ivy, although it is not related to it.

Don

Wine Cup callirhoe involucrata

Yes, purple in theory covers a wide range of perceived color going from violet to red ... see the so-called "line of purples" on a CIE chromaticity diagram.

Almost 30 MB, and it worked. Wow! Nice!