If you travel to the far north in November, you expect darkness, twilight, but also snow or muted colors like gray, brown, ochre and maybe the dark gray of the sea. I have been interested in colors for years and have made several lists of color names (in German) [1]. I am always interested in how color is used in works of art, how artists deal with colors; for example, how August Macke's work changed after a trip into the light of Tunisia or how my old art teacher Heiner Schlesing [2] was interested in colors after traveling around the world, especially after being a painter for an ethnographic expedition into the South Sea Islands, so that he had colors specially mixed together, but that was almost a hundred years ago.
Currently in the north, the shades of green surprised me, because I had not expected them to be like that. Perhaps most of all in the area of the northern lights, of which you often see pictures in bright green. In real life, you could see not only shades of green or turquoise, but also yellow and red to violet. But I was even more surprised by the green meadows, although only the artificial ones in gardens and pastures around farms. In nature it looked different, withered, yellow to brown. The meadows were more like the green that I know from where I live.
This picture is out of competition.
Natural vs. artificial
I've been overwhelmed by the incredible green of the sea and there were also shades of turquoise. I would have expected colors like that to be 3,000 km south rather than in the far north, and certainly not at this time of year. But it seems that a little light is enough to bring out this splendor of color.
Links and Annotations:
[1] Farben und Farbnamen Version 6.0
https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2024/01/farben-und-farbnamen-version-60.html Text in German.
[2] https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/search?q=Schlesing A selection of text with reference to Heiner Schlesing, but alas! all in German.
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