When Color is the Subject

Tulips at Les Tuileries

Les Tuileries – once a royal garden and now a public paradise in the middle of Paris. My husband Dale and I were walking around the center of Paris on a very dreary spring day. As we strolled by Les Tuileries, I brightened up. The tulips were in bloom, a colorful field in the midst of grey.

I set the camera for a landscape shot and tilted the lens down to cut out the flat grey-board sky, just using the light grey statuary and walls to set off the color of the garden. My zoom provided a tight frame, cutting out the rest of the garden and isolating the brilliant color. The whole experience sure put a spring back in my step!