While I was going through all of my photos from our trip to Lubec I was struck by how beautiful and colorful the natural world can be. I thought it would be fun to create some color palettes from some of my photos. I used this Photoshop template from The CoffeeShop Blog, popped in my photo, and then chose some beautiful colors to feature using the color picker.
Here is my first color palette, entitled “Fireweed.”
Fireweed, otherwise known as Chamerion angustifolium, grows everywhere in Washington County. You can see it on the sides of the road, and along the edge of the shore. The house we rent in Lubec has a huge patch of it growing on the side of the lawn facing the channel. The hummingbirds love this stuff, and you can hear their little wings beating furiously if you’re standing close enough. One evening I was lucky enough to have some time to photograph this beautiful plant during that special “golden hour” just before sunset. Of course, I had to act quickly because (as you can see in a couple of the photos) there was a thick, white fog rolling in from the southwest which obliterated everything within a few minutes of my finishing the shoot.
