Week 3 Prompt: Color
This week’s prompt is simple: Find and photograph something colorful!
Ryan Hildebrandt
Origami cranes at the Hiroshima Peace Park symbolizing wishes for peace, a common tradition following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. There are multiple installations of cranes folded and arranged in a similar way, and people send them from all over the world to the Peace Parks in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Grace Western
Cameroon, after only being here a little over a week, is one of the most colorful places I have ever been. Cameroonians are known to wear brightly colored clothes and how beautiful these clothes are. Often, whether at family reunions or a family gathering, a tribe, or tribu, will wear the same print to identify themselves and their pride as an ethnic group. The family I am staying with wears a royal blue print with yellow, black and orange interweaved. Yesterday while buying pineapples on the side of the road with my host sisters, a large group of people, who were coming from a reunion- my grandmother told me- were wearing a brown, white, yellow, and beige pattern.
However, the color that has been most evident to me is red. That is the color my cheeks are turning due to so much sunlight! We’ll see if that remains to be the case throughout the semester but I sure hope not!
Zachary Weaver
This photo, taken at Tintern Abbey in Chepstow, Southeast Wales, best shows the colors common in a British winter: grey skies, stone buildings, and green grass from all the rain!
Mallory Keller
Street art is pretty prevalent in Florence, so here are a few photos of some of my favorites that I would walk by.
Allison Zengilowski
Over a long weekend, a few friends and I decided to head over to New Zealand to explore the area before it became too cold (it is currently fall over here!). One of the first escapades we had was completing the Tongariro Mountain Crossing on the north island. The hike took us about 7 hours and was about 19 km long (about 15 miles). This crossing does extend over a volcano, and it is a geologist’s dream. One of the most striking parts of the hike is after you reach the summit, you can look down on two incredible sulfur lakes. Their striking green color is rather beautiful, although the smell is a bit unpleasant (for those who don’t know, sulfur has a rather pungent smell that resembles rotten eggs). After climbing for a few hours, primarily surrounded by monochromatic colors, seeing these lakes below was an extremely pleasant change. There were some incredible views along the way, if you are ever in New Zealand, I highly recommend taking the time to do this hike!
