Photo of the Week: Purple Lament

For our photo of the week, we bring you Purple Lament. On one of our many walks around the neighbourhood, we spotted these flowers on the side of the rocks. We took only three pictures of it, but this picture stood out to us. We thought this flower represents our blog quite well, as it is a royal purple colour.

Purple Lament has vivid colours, which won its place as our photo of the week.

We hope you enjoy our chosen photograph. If you want to see more of this photo, you can view it on DeviantArt (here and here) and Instagram (There is two photo, so make sure to look at both here). You can also buy it as a print on DeviantArt.

See you next week for another photo of the week!

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