#485. A few cheeky yellows*

I guess we’ve all got a pet project, something we never work especially hard at, just collect images in the hope that one day, we’ll have enough for a Web gallery, or maybe even a gallery show.

I’ve had two such projects going for a while now. The first started back when I got my first DSLR (A D70) and saw me start to collect photographs that featured the colour yellow in one way or another.

Blinds – Nüremburg

Abandoned – Cape Town

Golden Gai – Tokyo

Street – Tokyo

Street – Tokyo

The idea went off like an alcohol fuelled Concorde – the usual enthusiasm any new project enjoys and I collected what I thought was a fair number of pictures quite quickly. A decade later, my interest remains, but the harvesting of suitable images has slowed somewhat.

Looking through my collection and choosing images for this post was much harder than I’d imagined – mainly because I’d grossly over estimated how many I’d tagged “yellow” to start with.

Harajuku – Tokyo

Street – Tokyo

Short-time hotel – Tokyo

Crossing – Geneva

Laundry – Venice

No one city is any better than another – I just shoot what I see (and sometimes notice there’s yellow in it).

Sigh.

Untitled, Paris

Untitled, Varanasi

Parnie Street, Glasgow

Bathing huts, Muizenberg

Security shutter, George Town

The second project, I’ll keep a secret for now. Who knows I might even turn it into something special one day?

* Cheeky in modern-day parlance is just that. For example – out with your pals having a few ales and at the end of the evening, one of the imbibers suggests a “Cheeky Nando’s” – translation; “Let’s stop by the nearest Portuguese-style peri peri chicken fast food outlet (Nando’s) and grab an unplanned extra hot chicken and chips take away before heading home.”

Cheeky yellows? Unplanned and often discovered in a photograph shot for an entirely different reason, but later found found to contain a dash of said bright chromium.

Enjoy the rest of these selections:

Café tables, Paris

Shop window, Udaipur

Street, Singapore

Mail box, Bo Kaap

Shutters, Singapore

No parking, Singapore

Untitled, Tokyo

Apartments, Grasse