Post 39: Orange A Colour Story - October

"A Color Story" is a collaboration project involving photographers from around the world. Each month we search for a different colour, photograph it and turn it into a collage.

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“Storia di Colori” è un progetto in collaborazione che coinvolge fotografi di tutto il mondo. Ogni mese viene definito un colore differente che diventa la base delle foto da realizzare per comporre un collage.

Orange:

The colour between red and yellow on the light spectrum, its name is derived from the fruit.

The colour orange didn’t get its name until the 15th century when Portuguese merchants first brought orange tree’s to Europe. Before the 15th century it was simply referred to as yellow-red.

The orange colour in carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and oranges comes from the carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment that converts light energy into chemical energy to be used in the plants growth.

Paprika is sometimes fed to chickens in order to make their egg yolks appear more orange.

In Buddhism, monks wear orange robes; the colour is a sign of renunciation of the outside world and commitment to the order.

Orange is the colour commonly associated with extroverts, fire, taste, aroma, activity, excitement, happiness, amusement, safety, warnings, autumn.

I will be posting my colour collages on my Blog, Facebook and Instagram accounts. Feel free to follow along or even join in on the fun!  :)

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Io posterò i miei collage sul mio Blog, su Facebook e Instagram. Sentitevi liberi di seguire o magari partecipare a questo divertimento! :)