I’ve been posting a lot of either signage or black and white photos lately and wanted to change things up. So here is a short series of photos that predominantly feature one primary (or near-primary) color.

A large, red, cinderblock wall. A green wooden door is set into its center, surrounded by light blue wood panel. One way street sign on the far left. — Red
November 9, 2022
Bellefonte, PA
Ricoh GR II

The underside of a bright orange storefront awning. — Orange
May 11, 2011
Somewhere in Midtown East, New York City
Canon S90

Shrubbery with bright yellow leaves in a front yard. Green grass and fallen leaves below; fence and stone house behind. — Yellow
October 20, 2020
Pleasant Gap, PA
Ricoh GR II

One open green door on the left, propped open and overlapping a closed one on the right. Three printed signs with directional arrows read: MEN'S BATHROOM <-. WOMEN'S BATHROOM <- ("(ANOTHER)" hand-written across the top). WOMEN'S BATHROOM -> — Green
May 16, 2015
Collins Auditorium
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
iPhone 5S

Trees and leaves would've been the obvious picks for green, so I'm trying to be a little clever. I found that I had two copies of this photo—one that included more of the door frames and surrounding area, and this one, cropped so there's nearly nothing but green. There's something comforting about recognizing that the same sorts of things have caught my eye over time, and this photo has two of them—signage and large swaths of color.

Evening. Overcast sky, saturated blue clouds. Silhouettes of trees. Foreground: shadowed house with yellow light visible through windows. — Blue
July 3, 2021
Ricoh GR II

Indigo
January 11, 2005
Italy
Sony Cybershot DSC-P93

Indigo's a tough one. I'm kinda guessing here. Unfortunately, I don't recall exactly where in Italy this was taken, except that it was at a point in the trip when we were doing day trips to towns in Umbria.

Today's Throwback Thursday goes back 16 years, to the 2005 Fordham Honors Program trip to Italy, which was led by Joseph Perricone and the late and wonderful Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.

21-year-old man in a red sweatshirt and peacoat. Background: interior of the ruins of the Colosseum — Me at the Colosseum.

Photo credit likely goes to Pat Farmer, Kevin McKenna, or Tiffany Smith.

Tourists looking over the rail in the Colosseum. Low, warm sun visible through a window above. — Getting some sun into the building.

Spruced this up last night in Lightroom. If you zoom in, there's a good amount of pixellation (this is a 1.3 MB file), but it took the edits better than I expected.

Tourists looking over the rail in the Coliseum. Low, warm sun visible through a window above. A bit dark, with a lavender cast to the image.

Here’s the same shot as above, albeit straight-out-of-camera, no edits. I guess my intent for this shot was to, in addition to catching the sun through the window, have the railing intersect with the lower-right corner of the frame. It’s a reasonable choice, but as time has gone on I’ve grown less happy with canted shots.

I didn’t do extensive post-work on this, but (as may be evident in the previous photo) I did want to increase the contrast, and reduce what I saw as a lavender cast to the image. Lighroom’s auto toning button did most of the work, as it brought up some of the shadows, and the rest was fussing with the contrast slider and some selective color work. I tried to amplify the saturation of the spots on the top of brick wall, and amp up a bit of warm color saturation in the bricks.

Colors

Throwback Thursday: Rome, 2005