As you will have noticed, I like to take photos especially when I travel. Even if the resulting photos are not great compositions, a camera is a great tool for capturing shapes, mood and colour. Over on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon, Elizabeth has an interesting post showing how you can use your computer to reduce the resolution on your photos as to distil the basic colours and the proportions that they are used.

I went through a similar exercise (but without the aid of a computer) when creating one of my few hexagon quilts as part of my online City & Guilds course:

This weekend I will be back in Denver, Colorado. Let’s see if the winter colours yield new inspiration.