This may seem like a strange thing to write, but colour is very important to me in my photography. By that I mean that a lot of my compositions are essentially aesthetic explorations of colour; the varying subtleties of accent, hue, tone, shade and shadow which build layer, texture and depth in a photographic image.

The light is all we have to work with.

I am planning to post a series of images based around the primary and secondary colours.

Today it’s all about red….

(Much of this is old material newly arranged, so you may have seen some of these images before.)

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© Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012