These colourful, purple blossoms in the golden and warm autumn light captivate with elegance and luminosity. The photo motif was taken with the Nikon D90 in the Botanical People's Park Berlin-Pankow in autumn 2019. The beautiful, autumnal shot of the purple wild blossom in the golden, warm autumn light lends a pleasantly warm, colourful mood to any living or working space.
The significance of the leaf colours for the Iroquois:
In Iroquois mythology, the colours of Indian summer have a special meaning. The yellow leaves symbolise the fires of the spirits, while the red leaves are drenched in the blood of the bear that the heavenly hunters have slain. However, the indigenous people only told themselves such stories in winter. For summer was reserved for work. And whoever violated this law was punished by the invisible nature spirits Jo-ga-oh.
"For me, photography feels like really capturing the moment - like a kind of alchemy where time is physically captured."
Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As a passionate travel..
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