This exercise felt less constrained than the others so I used it as an opportunity to play and experiment. I took photographs of colours that caught my eye. I really liked the back lighting on the peonies and how they became translucent, the vibrant violet against the red and the grey sky through the window.

The leaf on the car bonnet was purely opportunistic. I had taken my camera with me and had been photographing puddles and raindrops and then spotted the leaf. I was really attracted by the way the leaf became almost luminous against the blue backdrop.

I had spotted the barriers in the snow while driving home one afternoon and went back the following day with my camera, I really liked the way the red punctuated the almost monochrome backdrop of snow and road.

I also liked the way the red jacket interrupted its green surroundings. I probably didn’t have a long enough lens at the time, as it might have been more effective if the figure were larger in the landscape. Nonetheless, I thought it reinforced the relationship between red and green as complementary colours and how they interact when in a different ratio than the 1:1 of the colour relationships exercise.