I used "violet" and "lilac" interchangeably in my vocal. until I checked out the fact that we have both in the next 3 days on "technicolor-april"
These wild irises grow around one of my son's favorite fishing lakes up in the hills and are pretty close to violet colored.
from Wikipedia about the color Violet
Violet is a bright bluish purple color that takes its name from the violet flower. On the traditional color wheel used by painters, it is located between blue and purple. Violet is at the lower end of spectrum of light, with a wavelength between approximately 380-450 nanometers. Light with a lower wavelength is called ultra-violet, and is invisible.
According to surveys in Europe and the United States, violet is the color most commonly associated with the extravagant, the individualist, ambiguity, the unconventional, and the artificial.
Lovely flowers! Your narrative gave me a chuckle because I have never associated lilac and violet as being the same- after all they are two different flowers- in fact one is a flower and the other grows on a bush- so being the detail oriented person that I am- they were always two different things! lol at me. You've certainly captured a nice violet alternative to the violet. Lovely shot.
i always thought that violet is the same as purple while lilac is a much lighter shade of them. then you get to look at the colour wheel and there are so many shades of these three colours. blue lilac purple violet orange, they're all the same! :-) these are beautiful flowers. i love them in yellow, too!
My wife, the artist, argues "colors" all the time with me. I like the "basic" colors, not the fancy names given to many. Like: red, green, blue, yellow. That's all one needs. Cool shot and framing.
Lovely selective coloring. When I started shooting flowers for the color violet, I soon realized that lilac, purple and violet are different when I looked these up on the Internet. Things we learn on 365!
