Like everyone else, I’ve been home bound and boredom’s forced me to look for different creative outlets. Lately, I’ve been playing with photo editing and media creation tools. Learning new tools while manipulating old photos can while away serious chunks of time. Familiarity does speed things up and after a few tries, my reworked photos have turned out better than I had imagined.
For this week’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge I ask you to share a photo and post where you RE-IMAGINE ORANGE.
What does that mean? It’s up to you. It could be old photos re-worked to highlight the color orange. Or pictures of oranges set in unusual repose. Or a composition with an orange colored background. Even a post on your favorite episode of Orange is the New Black.
In this challenge, feel free to use your own photos or free stock images (with attribution of course.) When using stock images, I will look for your personalizing touch. A story. An anecdote. A re-imagined visual collage. Your imagination. Your call.
If you dabble in Lightroom, consider playing around with filters and colors. In my featured photo, I desaturated all the colors except orange. The effect is quite dramatic, don’t you think?
RE-IMAGINE what you’d normally post for Friendly Friday and make it relevant to the color-fruit-title ORANGE. I look forward to seeing your submission!
Remember to include a link to this post and a comment below, so that I and others can find your response.
If you’re new to Friendly Friday, full instructions on how to participate can be found here.
This week’s challenge to RE-IMAGINE ORANGE goes up to Thursday, after which Amanda at StPA will post a new Friendly Friday challenge.
Toronto, Canada. April 2020
The Sandy Chronicles 
Nice theme – love the bright orange especially in the last shot. Hope this fits – https://myheart2heart.blog/2020/04/05/every-sunset-is-a-promise/
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Its a lovely shot. I rather like the outline of the car in the forefront. Thanks for joining in!
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Glad you liked it! Thank you 😊
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Here’s my link-https://acacophonouslife.com/2020/04/05/friendly-friday-photo-challenge-re-imagine-orange/
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Hi Sandy, love the desaturated shot 😃 A slightly different “look” at orange from me: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2020/04/05/orange-through-a-lensball-lensball-playtime-7-and-friendly-friday/
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While I like your orange table and chairs photo, I’m not sure I’d want to actually use them. They look uncomfortable! Here’s my offering: https://grahamsisland.com/2020/04/04/orangeband-surgeonfish-shoal/
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Ha Ha! It’s a rare piece of art to satisfy both form and comfort.
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Some Orange from me:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2020/04/04/friendly-friday-re-imagine-orange/
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A learning exercise for both you and me! Thanks for sharing that David
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I love the color orange. Wonderful photos you have on display for this week. 😀
Here is my entry. I went with selective color. Enjoy!
https://ceenphotography.com/2020/04/04/friendly-friday-photo-challenges-re-imagined-orange/
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Very nice Cee! When playing around with selective color, I’m always surprised when touches of orange shows up where you least expect it. Thanks for joining in.
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Interesting challenge! Here’s my take:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2020/04/04/friendly-friday-re-imagine-orange/
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Thank you for joining the challenge. Your flamingo has some very interesting lines and i like how she fills the frame. Let me know if my suggestion made any sense.
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Here, I never temper with my photos much and I hope I never will, but I added a pretty weird haiku to each. I hope that you like at least the photos. 😀
https://mexcessive.photo.blog/2020/04/03/day-three-friendly-orange-haiku-friday/
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I appreciate them all! Very clever 🙂
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Hi Sandy! What an interesting and fun topic! And gorgeous photos🧡🧡 I did miss a few FFPC but managed last week and will definitely be here this week too!! Thank you for the ideas… I have never used any photo editing app but this gives a great reason to do so. Will share soon. Hope you and yours are doing well!
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It will be great to see your creations too! There are many tools out there, many of them free or free for a trial. The free ones that I’ve used are Adobe Spark, Nexmuse and PicMonkey. They are quick and easy to use. Have a look and have some fun!
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Thanks so much! I just posted my link on your page. I downloaded Lightroom on my phone and have just started tinkering with it…so much to find out. I will check out these ones that you mention as well!
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Nice theme! I think I might do some editing later today 🙂
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I’m looking forward to it!
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You can go out you just have to avoid crowds and do the other recommended things. I mean, imagine all the oranges, it’s easy if you try. 🟠
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That’s true Mike, depending on where you are. Here in Toronto it’s recommended that everyone ‘Stay At Home’ and do not go out except for essentials. Elsewhere it’s more heavily mandated and enforced.
Yes, Imagining oranges is easy if you try 😉
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Essentials vary, here the gun stores are open but the liquor stores are closed. If I was still an alcoholic I’d be in more of a panic than I am now if that’s possible. I went to the supermarket this morning and I’m still trying to calm down. 😬😬😬 #Orange
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Beer and liquor stores open here too. When the MO was confronted on why, she said “People have dependency issues.” Hmmm.
Gun stores? Well. I can’t comment on that.
Take care Mike. ##Orange
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My guess is for the apocalypse: send lawyers guns and money-the shit has hit the fan. You take care too Sandy. ###Orange
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In some places, the term “orange prices” is used to indicate that something is cheap – I think it is unfair to the color orange.
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Lol. Drake! Orange indicated danger too. I guess it is to catch attention.
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Red alert every time we see the orange color. 😀 Know well that orange frogs are very toxic, but there are many animals in other colors which are dangerous too. 😀
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Is interesting how nature gives us those little warning signs a bit like those bright red and orange mushrooms!
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“Orange prices” I’ve never heard that expression. Which places are these?
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For example, the German railways “DB” and the Danish railways “DSB” advertise special cheap tickets under the concept of “orange tickets” – also see it in other contexts
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What a fun topic, Sandy. This will make us think a bit and use our thinking to create something new!
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I hope so Amanda 🙂 It’s my intent
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😁
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Sunsets are always wonderful (well, almost always) but I really like the desaturated version of the chairs and the edgy blob. The orange still stands out.
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Thank you for saying so. The edgy blob is a semi-functional table, or at least I used to think so. Looking at it now, I wonder 🙂
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🙂
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