This month’s Life in Colour invites us to look at orange. Happy to help. I’ll grab your attention in the feature photo, with a rather orange sky.
When I got my new phone, my not-at-all top-of-the range, bargain-basement smartphone, I discovered that it had a feature called ‘spot colour’. I tried it out in the garden, and in the woods, making orange my spot colour of choice. Here are some results:
Now let’s abandon the gimmicks, and simply go for a walk along Ripon Canal on this early autumn day:
And let’s remember past moments in Valencia, and in Le Jardin Extraordinaire for Becky’s Past Squares:
Shall we end with a single perfect rose ….

… or with a bit of fun – the play food I made for William and Zoë’s kitchen?


Oh, fantastic! Love your playing with spot colour or whatever! And the play food is fab! Lucky William and Zoe!
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I have to warn you. It’s not tasty.
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Oh those leaves in the tree roots…
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Quite effective with my odd little phone app, aren’t they?
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Plan dough I suspect, so of course it’s not!
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Salt dough. 50% salt.
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Yeeeeurgh!
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Nobody asked you to eat it …
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Well, oxfcourse no, it’s a toy
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That was lots of fun Margaret 🙂 🙂
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Good! Glad to raise a smile.
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Doesn’t orange lift the spirits. That sky is just fantabulous. And what fun with the spot colour.
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I know! It’s my new toy! And the sky was fabulous – not sure the next morning was however.
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Brilliant. I love the effects from that spot colour thingy. Wonder if my phone has one….
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Have a look. My phone really isn’t cutting edge.
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Super orange collection there, and how clever to pick out the orange in the otherwise black and white photo.
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Not clever. Just playing with my new toy which did all the hard graft.
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What is the new toy? I used to have software that could produce a similar effect, but it was very time consuming.
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The feature on my phone that did the spot colour thingy. Easy peasy.
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Isn’t amazing what phones can do these days? Is that an iPhone?
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Absolutely not! It’s a pretty much bottom-of-the-range Motorola. Plenty good enough for me though.
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I just assumed it must be an all singing all dancing fancy-pants latest iPhone which advertises itself as something super duper. Great work from Motorola. 😊
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They’re not bad at all. And a quarter of the price.
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You’d think orange being a hot colour would be summer, but it’s absolutely autumn for anyone living pretty much above the 51st parallel north as you have so beautifully captured (oranges and pumpkins excepted!).
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Pumpkins not excepted. I once grew a ridiculously large pumpkin, to amuse the children, when we lived in Darkest Harrogate.
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What a witty title and lovely orange shots, Margaret!
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Oh, thanks Teresa!
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Super oranges! I do like the spot colour thingy, much easier than trying to do colour popping in an editor. I wonder if my phone has something like that? or my camera? So many menus it’s impossible to learn everything on these things nowadays. Thank you for joining in with the orange month 🧡🧡
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I think your smart phone is well above mine which is only a down-market Motorola, so you should be able to persuade yours.
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I shall check it out forthwith!
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I’ve stood at that exact spot by the Ripon canal – I recognise the leaves!
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Absolutely you’ll have been here. Nothing ever changes in Ripon.
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What a great colour to choose, you made the most of it.
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Cheery orange for a grey day.
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I love orange and I love it even more in your photos!
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Not as vibrant as some oranges, but still a bringer of cheer.
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Fabulous
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Thanks!
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The spot colour shots are fun 🙂 You seem to have more colour than we do down here in the south, so far at least. But my favourite shot is the rose – so beautiful!
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Autumn only seemed slowly to start kicking in about a week ago. But it’s gathering strength now. Yes, it was a particularly striking rose. Gone now of course.
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But it will flower again next year ☺🌹
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🙂
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what a clever phone, I really must investigate mine more. I love all your playing and so many orange squares – a joy to behold this afternoon
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Oh thanks Becky. You all want to play the one-colour-game now!
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you trendsetter you!
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Your oranges are fantastic. Today I’m really taken with your selective color with the tree and autumn leaves. 😀 😀
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That’s my favourite too Cee. It comes freighted with good memories.
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Lovely selection of orange!
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Thanks!
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what IS thatffancy decoration on the large pumpkin? I don’t think I like that feature of ‘hunting for a colour’ on your new smartie; it looks a bit ‘recherché’ and not too natural…. I much prefer your following photos 🙂
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It’s not a feature I expect to use that much, but it was fun playing. And the pumpkin comes from Le Jardin Extraordinaire, where playing comes as standard.
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The orange colour stands out beautifully. Will have to check my camera (or phone) for a similar setting!
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Have fun playing if you find it!
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I think the tree looks really good with the orange leaves. Love the toy food and the rose and the pumpkin with the design on it.
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All good clean fun!
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What a lovely collage. I like your spot colour. shots.
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Thank you. Just a bit of fun, eh?
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The sky, wow… So magnificent! The image of the falling orange leaves under the tree is my fav.
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I’m quite fond of that one. It’s quite a tree!
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It definitely is a glad colour and the collection has a nice unified feel, and finished off with the awesome play food!
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Which is still going strong for William’s little sister!
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