“There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulfur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Welcome to the Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge for August. Have you guessed the featured color this month? Yellow! All things yellow are welcomed, no specific theme other than sharing images showing any shade of yellow. Have fun!
Let’s begin with some working photos, partially inspired by last week’s Lens-Artists “work-in-progress” challenge. I bet Anne-Christine was super busy, judging by all the links and comments 😉.
Yellow Works
“True chaos comes from the garden of your soul, where the wildflowers grow.”
~ Matt Baker
Golden Florals
This lovely sunflower is featured in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday this week! I will share my favorite poems from her challenge next week.
While we’re on the subject of flowers, check out these yellow flowers.
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”
~ L. Frank Baum
“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” ~ Sheryl Crow
While in the Canadian town of Kimberley, British Columbia, two weeks ago, we toured the quaint Cominco Gardens and gawked at all the coneflowers and other beautiful flowers.
Eating Yellow
Seeing all this yellow makes me hungry! We can’t eat our cherry tomatoes and red tomatoes fast enough. I ran some through the food processor and froze them in bags for future sauce or soup.
And not just me, these bees LOVE some sunflower pollen, not to mention the butterflies enjoying some tasty yellow flowers.
“And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-petalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.” ~ Steven Erikson
Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week
Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
- Cee’s Flower of the Day
- Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge: Edible
- Johnbo’s CellPic Sunday His featured yellow sign works for the color challenge, too
- Lens-Artists: Framing Your Photos
- Marsha’s Wednesday Quotes: Chaos
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
This Week’s Featured Bloggers
Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of anything YELLOW. I add these all week as new links are posted.
- YOUR BLOG’S NAME GOES HERE…
- Always Write
- Beachwalk Reflections
- Between the Lines
- Blog of Hammad Rais
- Bushboys World
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- NEW Change is Hard
- The Day After
- Deb’s World
- Easin’ Along Image shared in comments
- Equipoise Life Image shared in comments
- Explore Newness
- Frost on the Moose Dung
- Geriatrix Fotogallery
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s Views and News yellow bike shared in comments
- JJJ Interactive Books
- Kamerapromenader
- Light Words
- Live Laugh RV
- Loving Life
- Melissa Lemay
- Now At Home
- NutHouse Central
- Philosophy Through Photography
- Photos By Jez
- Quaint Revival
- Roberta Writes
- NEW Sharon’s Iconic Travel Photography Blog
- The Showers of Blessings
- Slow Shutter Speed
- This is Another Story
- Wandering Dawgs
- WillowDot
- Woolly Muses
- Working On Exploring
I can’t wait to see how you interpret the various shades of YELLOW this week! Join me next week as we explore CELEBRATIONS. Have a fabulous week!
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