Capture The Color Contest 2013

So there’s a photography contest for travel bloggers that I recently learned of. It’s the 2nd year running and the wonderful Steph Spencer behind the geektastic blog A Nerd At Large nominated me to enter, thanks, Steph.

The idea behind Capture the Colour is that participants enter a photograph for each of the five colour categories. Entrants then nominate five other bloggers to participate.

Here are my ‘wandering iPhone’ photos taken during some recent trips. I almost made it a Paris theme.

B L U E

While wondering the medina of Chefchaouen, Morocco in August 2013 on a trip with my niece on her first trip abroad, we stumbled upon this cat sitting peacefully. I couldn’t resist capturing this  and was secretly hoping the cat wouldn’t run away before I got the shot.

R E D

This past August while in Paris, I got to check “driving a Vespa in Paris” off my life list. I rented a classic vespa and drove it to Versailles and back and all around Paris! What a thrill. Here’s “my baby” parked on a street in the Opera area of Paris before I headed into a restaurant for dinner. Had some serious helmet hair that day, but well worth it!

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My Vespa in Paris

G R E E N

I took my 17 year old niece on her first trip abroad this past August. Taking a trip together after her high school graduation was something we have talked about since she was a young
girl. When I asked her where she most wanted to go she said Paris! So I planned a trip for us to go from Paris to Morocco by train. What an adventure it was.

Here is a moment I captured of my niece from the Peace Monument taking her first real look of the Eiffel Tower at night.

Enjoying the view in Paris

Y E L L O W

Every year for the past 3 years I’ve had the chance to visit Paris with someone different and dear to me. It’s also been a tradition to have a crepe from the stand by the carousel and to sit on a nearby bench admiring the Eiffel tower and the children enjoying their ride.  Each year I’ve tried to find new ways of capturing the scene. This is my 2013 capture with the slow shutter app on my iPhone 4s.

Le Carrousel de la Tour Eiffel

W H I T E

One of my favourite things to photograph are silhouettes. I noticed the light coming through the infamous clock in Musée d’Orsay on my first visit to the museum in March 2012. I waited for people to appear in front of it and I may or may not have nudged my friend (on the right) to walk towards it so I could capture what I envisioned.

Silhouettes against time in Musee D’orsay

 Nominations:

Vanessa from Turnipseed Travel 

Shivya from Shooting Star

Melissa from The Mellyboo Project

Mary from Calculated Traveller

Meruschka from Mzansigirl