MMDT Challenge #10: Glorious Orange!

POST WINDOW: May 15 - 21st.

Choose a Color and let it inspire the photos you take.

Tell us:

• About the photos you took.
• Why did you choose the color?
• How does the color make you feel?
• What does the color make you think about?

I chose orange because it’s one of my favorite colors. I’m sure it has something to do with the décor in my house when I grew up. Born in 1970, my house was decorated in the 1960s…orange furniture, orange carpeting, orange curtains…it must have seeped into my soul.

ORANGE makes me feel fabulous, fruity and fun! It’s also retro, refreshing and rejuvenating! So when I thought about where to take my photos, I thought what better place than the grocery store? I must say I got some strange looks as I posed the produce and cans of soda to get a good shot! One of the grocers eyed me…an older gentleman…he said he thought he’d seen everything when his wife took pictures of all the food at the last cruise they went on. He wasn’t ready for Tami’s challenges!

I used white grid paper so that all the different shades of orange could stand out. I couldn’t find any stickers that I liked, and I tried making an overlay title on a transparency for the large focal picture, but it didn’t look great. I couldn’t find any letter tiles that would work with my motif, so I decided to make my own 1” photo tiles with the letters to spell out o-r-a-n-g-e! I made 1” square text boxes in MSWord, color-filled them with orange and added white letters. I used a retro-looking font called CHICK, printed on photo paper and cut out…voila!

I used Page Pattern #40 www.tamipotter.com on its side. I knew I wanted to open up my bag of Oke-Doke cheese popcorn, take a photo and cut it into 1” squares, so I chose a pattern that had room for some 1” square tiles. And it was delicious!

So, between the floral department, the fresh produce, the olive bar (jardinière picture), the soda aisle and a bag of cheese popcorn…there you have it! My glorious orange inspired page. Oh, and on the way out, the swap meet sign was propped up against a telephone pole at the intersection!

Thanks for stopping by!