Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts

Saturday, March 07, 2009

RRPC: Shrouded in Purple

This week's Round Robin Photo Challenge, as suggested by Vicki of the blog Maraca, is "The Color Purple." As Vicki notes, it can be a challenging color to photograph, because somehow, some cameras have trouble capturing that shade. This is a good time of year to photograph purple, because it's Lent. Purple is the ecclesiastic color of Lent. It symbolizes repentance.


The Altar of Repose
From Lent at St. Michael's 2009

During Lent, all the statues, crosses, paintings and other religious icons at St. Michael's and other churches are either covered up with purple cloth or otherwise hidden away.


Purple cloth covers up bits of the pulpit.

The exact shade of purple seems to vary a bit, but for the most part you can tell they're trying for the same basic color.



I think the idea is to cover up Jesus and angels and saints - persons, in other words. So it doesn't matter much if there's a bit of sky, grass and a flower poking out the bottom of this painting.



The church was not lit Friday afternoon when I took these photos. Most of the lighting came from my camera's flash. Here is what the camera saw of the sanctuary without the flash.

I have more photos along these lines, but let's move on. After St. Michael's, the dogs and I crossed town, got Pepper's license renewed and visited a different dog park (see entry below). The sun was setting as we left Columbus Park, so I drove to the most famous place in southern Arizona for watching a sunset: the top of Gates Pass.


Sunset at Gates Pass.
From West Side Story

As long as a little sun remained above the horizon, there was more yellow than purple in evidence.



But overall, yes, there was purple in that sunset!



Is this purple enough for ya? Totally unedited tone and color in the two photos above.



How about this one? It's also completely unedited except for size and sharpness.

I'll have more photos of this sunset Saturday night. Meanwhile, let's go see everyone else's purpleness!

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