True reds are hard to find. No matter the type of flower, seekers after red often end up with a plant which produces blooms in hues of dark pink or even orange. "How could anyone call this red?" we cry when the blood-colored blossom we anticipated opens in fuschia.
Mix-ups at the growers? Mislabeling at the nursery? Probably.
But perhaps, like the camera eye, each human eye perceives color just a little differently; hence, one man's red is another's magenta.
The Martha Washington geranium (pelargonium) pictured here is, to the photographer's naked eye, a much deeper red than the camera was able to interpret. The first impressions were on the pink side. This shot comes closer to "reality," but is still not quite correct.
The camera eye has got some neat tricks, but it has yet to master all those of the human eye.
2 comments:
How about an orange rose? I have inherited (with the new place) a bush which produces a great rose, but there's some conversation about its color. I say it's near salmon, one says a rose (can't do the accent), another says orange. Ah color.
Salmon - where pink and orange merge. It's entirely possible. A flip through the rose encyclopedia turned up several at a glance. Is the mystery rose scented?
Orange, in various shades, has dominated new rose introductions the last few years. (Tiresome for those of us seeking the perfect rose -- which must, of course, be red.)
"Rose" is code for dark pink. (What's all this about an accent? Is there a Scottish roll on the r?)
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