Life in Colour: May – Purple

Following a month of Pink in April, we are now highlighting Purple in May for the Life in Colour Photo Challenge.

This month’s theme is a bit challenging, as HeyJude wants us to avoid Violet. Both are secondary shades of red and blue, but purple is red predominant and saturated, while the spectral colour of violet is more blue. I think I ended up slipping quite a few violets into this collection, but hopefully I can be forgiven for some colour blindness!

Purple…although found in nature in shades of crocuses, lilacs, and irises, look for the bruised colours in a sunrise or sunset, an indigo sea, a full moon in an inky sky. The darkness of a red wine, a rich velvet curtain or a starling’s wing.

24 responses to “Life in Colour: May – Purple”

  1. You found a lot of purples and the street art is stunning. I’m sure we’ll all be mixing our purples and violets this month 😊

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    1. I’ve found a few nice violets for next month. Looking forward to sharing.

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  2. Beautiful images of purple 💜

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  3. Does this mean we have a violet post to look forward to in the future, or is that rule just because (s)he’s a stickler? 🙂

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    1. Yes, apparently the colour theme in June will be violet. Better get started on that collection!

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      1. Is there any word on Canada allowing travel again soon? I’m sure you’re chomping at the bit to get out there. Should I write to Trudeau and tell him that blog posts about colors just isn’t cutting it for you anymore? I’m rather good at persuasive letters. Just sayin.’

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      2. Haha! Technically we COULD travel but it’s the quarantine requirement on return that is prohibitive. $2000 for a mandatory 3 day hotel quarantine and then 11 days self isolation at home. A nightmare for scheduling since I don’t have the luxury of working from home, as you know. Plus, my boyfriend is still waiting for his 1st vaccine dose and with the delayed schedule won’t get the 2nd one until September (the interval between doses has been extended to 16 weeks). So I’m counting on staying home bound until this fall, at least. 😭

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      3. Can you travel within Canada even?

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      4. Yes we can, although with most provinces in some form of lockdown, it doesn’t seem very fun to visit anywhere right now!

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  4. What a wonderful collection of purple!

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  5. Love your captures of purple, particularly the clothes people wore.

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    1. Thank you! I like those ones too, good memories.

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  6. Your flowers may be awesome but that featured mural is just AHmazing! Love it so much.

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    1. I enjoyed finding that mural too, in Toronto’s Graffiti Alley!

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  7. what a beautiful collection of photos Jess. Love the top one especially but not quite sure why she has ;Resident Evil’ on her top….

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    1. I noticed that on her shirt as well 😆

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  8. Wow, just look at all the beautiful photos, especially the street art! It’s amazing to see that there are so many different types of purple – reddish, bluish, pale mauves and lavenders, deep eggplants and presumably plums, too. How are things with you in Canada? Are you allowed to travel at least within the country? Ireland is set to allow inter country travel from 17th of May, but there’s no sign of oversees travel at all, even for those who are vaccinated. Looks like we have to wait until next year! Cheers and have a good weekend. Aiva 🙂 xxx

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    1. We are still quite restricted here in Canada too. We are allowed to travel domestically but many provinces are locked down so there isn’t much to do! It doesn’t look like overseas travel will happen until next year for us either. Hope you are keeping well at home!

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  9. Beautiful photos! That’s tough having to differentiate between purple and violet – I reckon one or two of these could be violet but now I’m not so sure.

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    1. This was definitely a tough challenge. I’m not sure what I will post for violet!

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