Description
The tulip-growing fields around Lisse and Keukenhof in the Dutch bulb-growing district are planted in variety blocks — each colour and cultivar occupying a precisely defined field strip — creating the most deliberately colourdesigned agricultural landscape in the world. This aerial photograph, made from a drone at 60m altitude in the third week of April at peak bloom, captures three adjacent field sections showing a total of eight distinct tulip variety blocks — the colours ranging from pure white through cream, pink, red, burgundy, orange, yellow, and a deep purple almost black. The straight boundaries between colour fields and the solid, even saturation of each block create a composition that resembles a Mondrian colour study executed at landscape scale.
