shades of autumn: orange

The beautiful blogs Bumbles & Light, Live & Love Out Loud and Project Alicia are hosting a photography challenge based around the shades of autumn. You can find out all the details by clicking on the button below.


At only 70-ish miles from the equator there's no traditional northern hemisphere change in the seasons here in Singapore. I thought this might be an interesting exercise in sharing the shades of a tropical Asian autumn; lush, vibrant and dripping with sweat colour.

So if you're after blazing fall leaves or staggering late afternoon sunsets, my response (in textbook Singlish) is simply "cannot lah". But I can confidently assume that a gazillion other Shades of Autumn contributors will well and truly scratch that itch for you, so do hop over and take a look.

Instead, here are some of the oranges to be found in Singapore this autumn (plus a few sneaky extras from 2010 - shhhhhhh - I won't tell if you don't).

mid-autumn festival lantern, Chinese Garden

a stand-up comic once riffed that Singapore's a great place, but it'll be even
better when it's finished: construction-site orange could be the national colour

these lovely flowers cover every shade of orange as they fade

huge bundles of incense for sale outside a temple

i like the black smudges on these, are they insect roadmarkings?

a colour-conscious mynah bird
matching background and beak is frightfully slimming dear heart

Confession time: the next three photos are actually from Japan at the end of 2010, but they're so fundamentally orange, I could hardly exclude them!

mount Inari, Kyoto

mount Inari, Kyoto

manhole cover, Shinagawa, Tokyo

See my green and yellow photos from previous weeks!