Thursday, June 15, 2006

Horizontal tricolour of red, white and green

*strength (red), faithfulness (white), hope (green)* facade of town council office*
Boys and girls, do you remember learning the origin of your country's flag at school? For me, it was an interesting experience getting to know the history behind each colour and symbol. After one year+ living in Hungary, it's about time that I study the story behind the flag of Hungary. Thank goodness for google and wikipedia!
*see world's newest flag here

16 comments:

AnnJay said...

Hi, Kris! :) You made my day with this beautiful photo!

Bob said...

Beautiful photo- couldn't it be Italy as well?

Ineke said...

Very nice Kris !

Kris said...

bob : the strip on Italy's flag are vertical. i found out at least another 4 countries have the same flag colours as Hungary, obviously of diff designs :)

thanks bob and annjay for stoppin by!

Pirjo said...

Beautiful! I like this unusual perspective a lot.

Cynthia Quiros said...

soo beautiful!

Dawn said...

An interesting and beautiful photo. Are these flowers geraniums?

Lisi said...

haha Kris, the answer to your question is NO, we in HK didn't get told about the British flag and they started to educate ppl about the Chinese flag I was in Canada and somehow, I didn't know about the Canadian flag too...i'm completely ignorant about flags hehe

Andrea said...

how beautiful, so pure like....

Annie said...

Strength, faithfulness and hope are very good values to have - as long as the faithfulness and strength are employed toward promotion of kindness and social/physical health.

This is a very interesting way to teach the meaning of the flag's colors.

midnitebara said...

lovely shot! now that youve mentiones it, yeah..isnt it time I learn about the story behind Japans flag.

backpack_everyday said...

Hey Kris u sure know how to make everyday interesting.You live in a beautiful country too.Good for you.....

Kris said...

hey Dawn ! I see that you're in Marieta's team .welcome on board :) about the flower's name, er..gheez i'm the last person you should ask..hahah. anyone can help ?

Lisi : hehehe.. really? interestingly, I was checking about HK 'cos not too familiar with the design since the '97 . HK's new flag is pretty :)

Annie : you always have wise words, i totally agree :)


Midnite : hahah ..the red dot is rising sun, easy ? go go learn it quick :)

Backpack : thank you vathsan, i'm pulling my hair thinking of topics :D yes, it's a relaxing country :)

Thank you all for stopping by :)

zdenka pregelj said...

Beautiful shot!

Kala said...

hey kris - this is such a nice photo - the colors come out really well and you do a great job of posting interesting text to go with it!

maiylah said...

what a coincidence, i was researching a bit about my country's flag..and found another flag with a similar design!! lol.. ;p

such a lovely perspective, Kris!!

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