Colorful Peacock
- Posted by Daniel Flück on June 13th, 2007 filed in Pics
I enjoy going to the zoo very much. And as we are a big family now we even have a season card for the local zoo.
Christopher wrote about Finding Color at the Zoo. So what does a colorblind guy do with his camera handy and looking for some nice shots to take? – He is also looking for colorful pictures; even if this sounds a bit contradicting.
Here is the most colorful picture I took at my last visit. It’s the very colorful eye on the tail of a peacock.
Peacock Eye
And here are the colors I can perceive through my colorblind eyes. Starting from the middle going outwards.
- very dark blue, almost black
- dark blue
- light blue
- reddish-green or brown?
- yellow
- again a light blue
Now it would be interesting to know: How far away are my colors from to the reality? And what colors do you see?
November 8th, 2007 at 9:00
Dear Daniel,
I’d like to know if you sell your pictures, I’m interesting in use this peacock image for my brochure. Please contact me.
Regards,
Isabel
November 8th, 2007 at 14:09
Isabel, I just uploaded a few pictures onto Flickr. You are free to use them. (Link to this picture)
December 7th, 2007 at 21:38
Going from the middle to the upper left through the eyes of a non-colorblind person:
Black, really dark blue, the blue starts getting a bit lighter and some slightly brown hues appear, then you have the first circle surrounding the middle Pacman-shaped figure. That circle is light blue ad its outer edges are greenish/brownish/greyish. The next circle (shaped like an egg) is light brown. This in turn is surrounded by a light yellow border which is surrounded by a light purple border (although the latter isn’t too visible here compared to the sharper, lower left corner of the “egg”). All this is suurounded by greenish feathers.
I hope this made some sense. It’s sort of difficult to explain, as the colours on the given picture tend to melt into each-other. Some are sort of borderline colours as well, for example the light yellow border could be described as light green by some and so on.
December 7th, 2007 at 22:30
Severin - Wow! Thank you very much. Now I see what I can’t see :-)
January 17th, 2008 at 15:02
looking though some off your pictures i have been taking a few pictures similar to your pictures
April 22nd, 2008 at 21:57
Hey, I was wondering if I could use this peacock feather for my avatar and in my banner for my clothing line I’m starting. It would be great.
Contact Me :)
Melissa
October 11th, 2008 at 5:22
hi, can i use your picture as a background for the greeting banner of our mayor here in the philippines? its just one banner?
October 11th, 2008 at 9:37
Gus, you can find the photo at Flickr (Link). I released it under the attribution licence, so you are free to use it, share it, manipulate it, whatever. A link to Colblindor of course would be great.
October 28th, 2008 at 13:55
Hi Daniel, I love you photo of the peacock I am a Graphic design student in my third year and currently doing a project which involves birds, would you happen to have side shoots of the peacock or any other bird that i could use in my project, as my photography skills are not up to scratch. i will name you as phoographer if your photo is used. is this okay?
October 29th, 2008 at 21:38
Tanya, you are free to use any of my photos. Here is my Flickr account, where you can find all my pictures (not many).
You can also find a lot of other pictures, which are not bound to restrictive copyrights, at the Flickr creative commons page.
March 12th, 2009 at 4:40
Your peacock pictures are BEAUTIFUL. Thanks for being willing to share them.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:12
Daniel
Interesting that you make reference to reddish-green, which as I am sure you realise, is not meant to exist for those with full range of color. Since you selected this colorful shot using two thirds of the information available, it is unsurprising that it should still be a treat on the normal eye, this I find.
It is interesting how patterns in nature take natural progressive continuous spectra. In this case it appears to correspond to the continuum between your first (or second but it looks like first) and third cone type’s predominance via grey
It is quite easy to imagine how rich your colour world still is even from the mind perspective of a ‘normal’ who knows different
Yes and so as not to dissapoint, ciorresponding with your areas -
Slightly purple blue (royal blue)
Light- pale sl greenish blue
Pale reddish brown
Yellow
What appears to be a halo purple at one side, turquoise at the other
Bottle (slight bluish) green
Regards
Mark