National Geographic: Life in Color - Purple

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Purple is a versatile color. Combining the fire of red with the serenity of blue, it has the ability to soothe as well as excite passion. Purple is prevalent in nature in everything from eggplants to amethysts, and humans have adopted it as a symbol of royalty.
Here, Ross Bridge in Tasmania is cloaked in a mauve sunset. The beautiful sandstone span, built by convicts in 1836, is one of Australia's oldest and is decorated with an impressive array of carvings.
Photograph by Sam Abell



Towering lavender clouds loom like misty mountains over the coast of Scotland's Isle of Skye. Skye is one of the Inner Hebrides, a group of islands off Scotland's west coast.
Photograph by Jim Richardson



Two polar bears spar in the snow as a magenta sunset descends over Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Scientists fear that the shifting Arctic climate could threaten the species' survival.
Photograph by Paul Nicklen



Lechwe rest as the setting sun casts a purple glow over Botswana's Okavango Delta. Well adapted to wetland environments, these antelope typically feed on the delta's semiaquatic grasses.
Photograph by Beverly Joubert



A close-up shows purple violets flecked with bright yellow pollen in Washington, D.C. Violet is the common name for this plant genus, but they are more properly called violas.
Photograph by Stacy Gold



This brilliant purple sea star was photographed in the waters off Sulawesi, Indonesia. Though they are commonly called starfish, these animals are not fish at all. They are echinoderms, closely related to sea urchins.
Photograph by Wolcott Henry



A lavender-colored nudibranch feeds on hydroids near Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji. Related to sea slugs, nudibranchs are shell-less mollusks that display some of the most vibrant colors found anywhere in nature.
Photograph by Tim Laman



Glow from the distant Shaybah oil field turns the Saudi Arabian sky purple as a man dances atop a nearby sand dune. Saudi Arabia controls about a fourth of all the world's proven oil reserves.
Photograph by Reza



Journey's end meets day's end as a freighter delivers its cargo to a Potomac River dock in Alexandria, Virginia. The historic riverside town is a stone's throw from the nation's capital.
Photograph by Bruce Dale



A lavender haze creeps over a boat-filled harbor in Rockport, Maine. Maine's picturesque coastal towns are popular with sailors and summer tourists alike.
Photograph by Ira Block



A Joshua tree stands under a purple-black sky in California’s Mojave Desert. Native Americans once wove baskets and sandals from this tree's leaves and ate its buds and seeds.
Photograph by Tim Laman


Purple tints land and sky as night falls over lavender fields at Tasmania's famed Bridestowe Estate. The plantation is one of the largest lavender farms in the world.
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig

Comments

[buboks.livejournal.com]

"полар берс" прямо как люди :)) А лавандовые поля не впечатлили, хотела увидеть больше фиолета

[othersideofwind.livejournal.com]

о,да! медвежонки...:)))