Vocabulary day
Water drops clinging to the flower emphasized the intense colors.
It had started raining before dinner the night before, a heavy tropical rain that fell straight down. Later, back in our bure, we opened the shutters and fell asleep to the sound of rain.
By morning, the heavy rain had gone. Instead we had the very light, almost imperceptible kind of rain that I once, in Mexico, heard referred to as “chipichipi.” And, as the sun rose over the volcanoes, there was a rainbow hanging over the clear Pacific water.
See how easy it is: just by reading today’s blog, you added two words to your vocabulary! And this concludes the Useful Foreign Words edition of One Day | One Image.
Taveuni Island, Fiji
Photographed 7.1.2013
Posted on August 18, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, taveuni island, taveuni island fiji. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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Thanks for sharing the beautiful image, Melinda, and the vocabulary words. It’s been a while since I’ve experienced chipichipi…sounds nice.
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Thanks, Fred. I hope your part of the country gets some chipichipi before too long!
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Chipichipi is a very useful word around here – we often have that kind of “rain”, more like mist. But colder than in Mexico.
I like your treatment on this flower with the black hole in the middle. It adds mystery to the photo. Great colours too!
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I love the word “chipichipi” – it’s fun to say and is perfectly descriptive of a particular sort of precipitation.
Color? On One Day | One Image? What in the world is going on?! And you know what else? This photo is….cropped.
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Love it. If this is part of your new direction, then bring it on!
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Thanks. I don’t know if it is part of my new direction. (But only because I’m not entirely sure what that new direction is!) I’ve been posting almost exclusively b&w for a year so working more color into the blog is probably a good idea.
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I had to look twice (no, three times) to see if I was in the right place. You rocked my world with this image! Also, I can’t wait to use the word “chipichipi” in conversation. With our weather, I’ll get a lot of use out of it.
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Maybe I should have written a warning, to post just prior to the regular one, so my regular readers wouldn’t be so shocked.
Have fun saying “chipichipi” and let me know when it starts to catch on.
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Colour? Is this really you Melinda? Or is this Bizarro Melinda?
Regardless, great image and thanks for broadening my vocabulary.
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Or: maybe b&w Melinda was Bizarro Melinda…
Glad you like this one, even though it WAS pretty different from my usual posts!
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