Lancaster Poppy Season – A Time to Think About Color

For a few weeks every year, the otherwise dry, barren hills surrounding Lancaster burst into color. Tourists come from all over the world to hike the trails around the Lancaster Poppy Reserve. Amongst the bright orange poppies are other wildflowers that add purples, yellows and blues. To balance this theres still the dry grass and odd tumbleweed to add shades of green and gray. It’s quite a sight!

This year was particularly great. Due to increased rainfall earlier in the year we had a large bloom and it drew a pretty large crowd.

We went this weekend and took some photographs of the event. From one of those photographs you can take a very effective color scheme that would look great for the websites of many local businesses. Take a look.

If you’re thinking of starting a new business or building a new website in the Los Angeles area, consider using this color scheme or something similar as a way of connecting with the community.

Thinking about colors

Ideas for color schemes can come from a variety of places. Last year we designed a website for an estate attorney in Ohio. We wanted the website to convey the feeling of home security. To achieve this we went to home depot and took all of the paint brochures for home colors. What we came up with was a mix of navy blues and creams.

The result looked like this…

The point here is that color schemes can come from many different places. Think about the themes your website is trying to display and search for influences from media related to that theme.

And while they’re in boom, go check out the poppies!