RGB-Blue

Alcedo atthis
Common Kingfisher
翡翠(カワセミ)
(愛知県にて)

Photograph by Baikada (ばいかだ)
*CANON EOS KISS DIGITAL X*

RGB最終章は青です。青は皆さんの目に触れる機会が一番多い、自然の色だと思います。海、湖、大空…。生き物を育む環境の根幹には青があるように思います。
The final chapter of RGB is blue. Blue is nature’s color to be able to see you very well. Sea, lake, and the sky… I think that there is blue in the basis of the environment that brings up the creature.

私は、青い爬虫類をじっくりと写真を撮ってみたいのですが、なかなか思い通りの青い爬虫類に出会えていません。鮮やかな水色の北海道東のアオダイショウはとても美しい。しかし水色であって青ではない。
ニホントカゲの幼体の尾のメタリックブルー。これもとても美しいけれど、あれが全身の色だったらどうだろう?あまり気に入らないかもしれない。私は、魚で言えばナンヨウブダイのような、鳥で言えばオオルリのような、そんな青い爬虫類に出会ってみたい。実は1度だけ、それに近い爬虫類に出会ったことはある。
I want to take a photograph with blue reptiles slowly, but cannot readily meet blue reptiles just as wanted. Japanese ratsnake in East-Hokkaido of the vivid light blue type is very beautiful.
However, it is light blue, but not blue. Metallic blue of tail of infant of Japanese five-lined skink. How if that is a color of the whole body though this is also very beautiful? It is likely not to like it so much for me.

西表島で出会った、夜の海の中を泳ぐ、ヒロオウミヘビの青。
月夜に照らされた美しい青。あの記憶を写真に出来たらいいのに…。と思ってしまいます。爬虫類のことばかり言って、この写真のカワセミには失礼ですね。(^^;
I want to come across blue reptiles. The blue that seems to be Big blue parrotfish if it is a fish. The blue that seems to be Blue-and-White Flycatcher if it is a bird. In fact, there can be the thing that I came across the reptiles which were near to it once. Blue of Banded amphibious sea snake swimming in the night sea where I came across in Iriomote Island. The beautiful blue that was lighted up in a moonlit night. Though I should have been able to do it to a photograph for that memory…. I think so. I say only of reptiles and am rude to Common Kingfisher of this photograph. (^^;

このカワセミの青は、身近で出会える、とても美しい青だと思います。誰もが親しめる美しい青。一年中楽しむことの出来る青。視界の片隅に入れば強く印象に残る鮮烈な青。
We can meet near ourselves blue of this Common Kingfisher to be very beautiful blue, I think. The beautiful blue that anyone can get close to. The blue that I can enjoy throughout the year. It is shocking blue that strongly remains in the impression if entering the corner of view.

被写体として、人気がありすぎて、正直じっくりと撮ることを避けてしまうカワセミなのだが、やっぱりいると撮ってしまう。
I come to want to avoid taking it because Common Kingfisher is popular among everyone as subject in the photograph. However, I take it carelessly when there is a Common Kingfisher.

冬の環境に、あの青は反則的に輝いている。
That blue sparkles in the environment of the dark color of the winter.

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