throwing waffles

Oh, brown. You don’t have a fancy-sounding name as so many of the other crayons, and you’re tricky to photograph just like the purples. Way back when we did sepia and I compared it to brown, I intended to post a shot of the color of my hair for this week’s shot.. but when it came down to it I just… didn’t. So you’ll just have to trust me that this mug is perfectly brown in person.

White was this week’s color for sixty-four colors, and admittedly, I was a little hesitant at the beginning of the week. It took an impromptu trip to the boardwalk in Asbury Park to spark my creative juices, but then, I always love taking pictures there. (Although I’m beginning to fear that I’ll soon reach the limit and have taken pictures of everything interesting there… but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.) And then I found so many cool shots for white in my archives that I couldn’t limit it to just a few. Or maybe the shots of snowy winters are especially charming just because it’s the middle of August.

Sky blue was a fun one, and not just because the crayon isn’t as much like the color of the actual sky as you’d expect. Some of the archive shots are film ones, which fits in neatly with my recent obsession with film, too.

Goldenrod is a funny color, because the crayon itself looks all boring and drab and dull… but then you color with it and it’s one of the cheeriest yellows out there. And yellow is one of my favorite colors to look for in the wild, even better that I already had sunflowers sitting on my dining room table when I found out this week’s color. It’s just happy, heart of the summer stuff. Which is always, always a good thing.

I was awfully excited while I was in New York City a few weekends ago, because I got a secret sneak preview of the week’s color because I was, you know, standing next to Jodi as she took her photo of the plum-colored door in Soho. I was also a bit reluctant, because the purple crayon weeks in sixty-four colors can be frustrating, especially when it comes to getting a photo that looks on the internet like it does in real life. And then  I found several instances of plum in real life during our birthday adventures after all. Shows you how much I know!

I know I’ve been a bit lax lately in posting photos from the archives for each week’s color in sixty-four colors, but mostly, I didn’t think I’d find much in the archives that matched cadet blue, and I’m pretty sure I’ve already matched my magenta-ish pinks to other crayons, even though they also sort of match wild strawberry. But then along comes red orange, and I think red orange might be my favorite color in the universe. I love orange, but the deeper, almost reddish orange of red orange is the exact SHADE of orange that I happen to prefer. So there’s a lot of goodness in the archives in this color. The first two were taken this week, and the others are older shots.

The brown/tan crayons are some of the colors I’m most nervous about in the sixty-four colors project. I’m not sure why, because they are some of the more prevalent colors. Maybe because they aren’t always the prettiest subjects for photos? I don’t know, but last week was one of the more DUH moments in this project, as I had this funny sense that I’d seen some bricks in the exact shade of khaki to match tumbleweed, but I couldn’t figure out where I’d seen them. Until I realized that I LIVE in a tumbleweed-bricked building, and have for three years. Wow.

The bubblegum pink crayons are fun, and even more so because there’s no shortage in my archives. This week’s shot was of a local cake store that is in a giant pink house with pink trim. How could I pass up an excuse to head over there to take pictures? I couldn’t. The second is a shot from early spring taken with my favorite film camera (the AE-1), and the rest are older shots that I like quite a lot.

Granny Smith Apple was hard to find last week, but I wonder if that’s a bit more because I seem to have adopted a serendipity-style approach to the sixty-four colors photo project: I just live my regular life waiting for the proverbial apple to fall and hit me on the head. I did find some good ones in the archives; it’s such a happy color.

Last week’s color for sixty-four colors was black, and I was resisting the temptation all week to post a new photo of my black chucks. And then I spotted some black-centered gerber daisies at the grocery store, and decided to go all outside-the-box with it. Just to be contrary. Of course, I’m only realizing now that I forgot to post it to the group pool, but that’s okay. I had a lot of fun archived shots of black items, although it’s a trickier photo subject than you’d expect.