A couple of months I visited Berlin. A short spring vacation. I checked the temperatures before my trip, it looked like a nice warm 20C. But by the time I got there, the temperatures dropped to 7C. Looked like winter was not ready to let go just yet. It was very cold, certainly more than I had expected and prepared for. I stopped feeling my nose. I couldn’t take my hands out of the gloves to take pictures. But I was fascinated by the colors. The skies were gray, and they brought out the colors of the city: The trees in transition from brown to bright green, the buses and trains in saturated yellow, and here and there a dash of orange or red to complete the set. I kept seeing these colors again and again, they stood out in many of the pictures that I took. So after I finished sorting the pictures, I created this palette.
Yellow.
All the public transportation cars are yellow: The train, the buses, the light rail. Strong, saturated yellow, that stands out from afar. Signs and posts are also yellow. And occasionally I saw buildings with a soft yellow front.
Green.
The city is full of parks, it’s fantastic. Most trees are very tall. There were at least two noticeable shades: the bottom leaves were dark green, while the top leaves were light green.
GRAY.
The dramatic skies were the perfect setting, and influenced every picture. But there were also structures, monuments, that wore the same cool gray.
Orange.
Orange seemed to fit very well with the green and the yellow. A car, a chair, some graffiti, it took the palette an extra step. Even the gloves that I bought there were orange.
brown.
Another dramatic shade that was noticeable was dark brown. Buildings, mostly, inside and outside, but it was also seen at the parks.
Red.
Red wasn’t as prominent as the other colors, but whenever I saw it, and it was always such a great touch.
Funny story, I was so cold, I must have searched for gloves at half a dozen stores at least. Whenever I walked in, and asked for gloves, the salesperson would shrug and say: We don’t sell gloves anymore, it’s summer! 😀