Colorful Peacock

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
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?


6 Responses to “Colorful Peacock”

  1. Isabel Says:

    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

  2. Daniel Flueck Says:

    Isabel, I just uploaded a few pictures onto Flickr. You are free to use them. (Link to this picture)

  3. Severin Says:

    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.

  4. Daniel Flueck Says:

    Severin - Wow! Thank you very much. Now I see what I can’t see :-)

  5. kirsty Says:

    looking though some off your pictures i have been taking a few pictures similar to your pictures

  6. Melissa Says:

    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

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