A stock photograph of an artists paint brush with fresh colorful paint on its bristles. Ingram Publishing/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: ipurestockx050072
Grey or gray, however you prefer to spell it, is an under-appreciated hue. Rarely is it noticed or applauded and yet it does so much for us. If there weren’t any grey in the world we wouldn’t have great songs like Billy Joel’s “Shades of Grey” or Paul Simon’s great line in I Do it For Your Love, “We were married on a rainy day. The sky was yellow and the grass was gray”.
You can do that by scrolling below to see some other evidence of what grey does for us, then follow us back to Newscom for even more!
Baby’s eye, close-up. Ale Ventura / Altopress/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: altopress021028
Close up of an elephant’s face. Design Pics/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: depphotos096012
If it weren’t for grey how would we notice the other beautiful colors? Grey is often used as a background color and if we didn’t have it how would we emphasize, say an apple’s gorgeous vibrancy in a picture? My favorite kinds of artistic and abstract photos are when the backgrounds are a soft grey or sepia and one object is its true color and it just pops off the page.
Spawning of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria). Ottfried Schreiter Image Broker/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: ibphotos094440
Skellig Islands, Co Kerry, Ireland; Islands in a rain shower. Peter Zoeller / Design Pics/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: depmicrostock020726
If we didn’t have grey we wouldn’t have salt n’ pepper hair, or rainy days, or Gandalf the Grey, or Grey’s Anatomy! We really do owe the achromatic (neutral color) grey (yes, that’s an oxymoron) a big thank you for all that it does. I mean LOOK AT THIS GERBIL!! It’s adorable.
Mongolian Jird or Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) young, 2 weeks, on a hand. Michael Weber Image Broker/Newscom. Find it at Newcom: ibphotos063043
Tall spiral staircase against cloudy background. T. Kevin Smyth Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom. Find it at Newcom: scphotos100301
Statue of a woman, Ostfriedhof cemetery, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe. Heinz Kühbauch Image Broker/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: ibpremium363526
A spiderweb is covered with dew between lines of barbed wire in Kassel, Germany, 28 September 2011. UWE ZUCCHI/EPA/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: epaphotos139266
Broken shutters on door and window on wooden house, Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America. Neil Emmerson/Robert Harding/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: rhphotos100240
Grey abstract design in detail. Design Pics/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: depphotos085808
An abandoned swingset in the snow in a park in winter in Truckee California. Bill Stevenson Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: scphotos064482
Stone wall borders grey clouds. Ingram Publishing/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: ipurestockx064738
Smoke after fire in Bhari Basti. ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: zumaltwo196434
Elephant ‘Gonzi’ rolls around in the mud at the zoo in Osnabrueck, Germany, 31 August 2004. The zoo plans to build a new 4 hectare large enclosure for their elephants, the so-called ‘Achse der grauen Riesen’ (axis of grey giants). A 3634 Friso Gentsch Deutsch Presse Agentur/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: dpaphotos007842
Gearwheels. Tom Schneider Image Broker/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: ibphotos047523
A Musical Monument Constructed Like A Pipe Organ; Helsinki, Finland. Design Pics / John Doornkamp/John Doornkamp/Newscom. Find it at Newscom.com: depdest009151
Sun rays bursting through the clouds shining on the Statue of Liberty, NY. Jian Chen Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom. Find it at Newcom.com: scphotos066950
You might enjoy some of our other related colorific blogs back at FocalPoint:
Colorific Pictures: Bashful Brown
Colorific Pictures: Posh Purple
Colorific Pictures: Gallivanting Green
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