Am I ready to blog about the color garnet, the theme for 2nd week? I guess the answer is Yes in my mind and so here it is!
Before I start, A Happy Sankranthi / Pongal to all the readers of this post. I am now on a four and a half day holiday for the festival and I had planned to do this post during this break.
Yesterday, I was telling my father-in-law that I had also started a blog and he said, "Good but where do you get the time from, to do that?" After getting into this 52-week project, I guess you will all be the inspiration that I need and the time will be created by itself.
I started off by googling what is a garnet ? And came up with a lot of information about garnets and that they are a group of silicate glassy minerals and have been used as gemstones and abrasives. Garnet is the birthstone for the month of January and a happy birthday to all of you born in January. From their physical properties, I found that garnets are found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, violet, pink and colorless.
The rarest of these is the blue garnet, the colour which is my niece Gundu Pilla's favourite. From the time she was a kid, she would always say, she loved the colour blue. I really wanted to post a garnet in blue. I had a wonderful photo of the blue sky with an airplane in it, which I shot sitting in a plane and as I saw another plane overtake me at a very high altitude. But the hitch was whether the blue conformed to the blue of the garnet. I also thought of a shot of the sea, another vast blue expanse. I have wonderful photographs of the sea. Unfortunately they are all safely tucked away in a DVD lying in my office and I could not use them.
I saw a lot of images of the color of the garnet and found many resemblances of all these in day-to-day life, like food, fruits, flowers, sandals, cars, cell phone covers. And I narrowed down to pomegranate seeds, derived from the Greek word Granatum, which some of our friends on The Fifty-2 Weeks of 2013 Project have used. Flowers have also been used. I also thought of using photographs of the sunset or sunrise in orange shades, which is actually my cover photo on my Facebook account. I thought of an yellow garnet, the photograph of an illuminated cave wall in the Belum caves near Banaganapalle in Andhra Pradesh which is the second largest cave in the Indian subcontinent.
And finally settled on this. Pomegranates and gemstones, both of which I borrowed from my wife for the shot.
And as I was arranging them, I thought of a small game and I want you to guess how many stones are there in the photo. All the right answers get a chocolate each, maybe in the color of the Garnet.
Thanks Sra and Aparna for the theme.
Before I start, A Happy Sankranthi / Pongal to all the readers of this post. I am now on a four and a half day holiday for the festival and I had planned to do this post during this break.
Yesterday, I was telling my father-in-law that I had also started a blog and he said, "Good but where do you get the time from, to do that?" After getting into this 52-week project, I guess you will all be the inspiration that I need and the time will be created by itself.
I started off by googling what is a garnet ? And came up with a lot of information about garnets and that they are a group of silicate glassy minerals and have been used as gemstones and abrasives. Garnet is the birthstone for the month of January and a happy birthday to all of you born in January. From their physical properties, I found that garnets are found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, violet, pink and colorless.
The rarest of these is the blue garnet, the colour which is my niece Gundu Pilla's favourite. From the time she was a kid, she would always say, she loved the colour blue. I really wanted to post a garnet in blue. I had a wonderful photo of the blue sky with an airplane in it, which I shot sitting in a plane and as I saw another plane overtake me at a very high altitude. But the hitch was whether the blue conformed to the blue of the garnet. I also thought of a shot of the sea, another vast blue expanse. I have wonderful photographs of the sea. Unfortunately they are all safely tucked away in a DVD lying in my office and I could not use them.
I saw a lot of images of the color of the garnet and found many resemblances of all these in day-to-day life, like food, fruits, flowers, sandals, cars, cell phone covers. And I narrowed down to pomegranate seeds, derived from the Greek word Granatum, which some of our friends on The Fifty-2 Weeks of 2013 Project have used. Flowers have also been used. I also thought of using photographs of the sunset or sunrise in orange shades, which is actually my cover photo on my Facebook account. I thought of an yellow garnet, the photograph of an illuminated cave wall in the Belum caves near Banaganapalle in Andhra Pradesh which is the second largest cave in the Indian subcontinent.
And finally settled on this. Pomegranates and gemstones, both of which I borrowed from my wife for the shot.
And as I was arranging them, I thought of a small game and I want you to guess how many stones are there in the photo. All the right answers get a chocolate each, maybe in the color of the Garnet.
Thanks Sra and Aparna for the theme.
The comment I deleted on the groups' page was about the colours other than the most found deep red! I like the greenish yellow glow inside the caves picture while, I am still going back and forth counting the real garnets in the maze. The idea is very novel!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the 52 week idea which has started off this enthusiasm.I was up till 2 am last night to finalize the photo and am very happy with the result.
DeleteI thought green was the rarest, great going... the first two pict are excellent in color but like the pom arils and gem plated together,good choice.
ReplyDeleteHappy that you like it.
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