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Photo Credits

Many thanks to Flickr and the fine photographers who took and shared the pictures you see in these books. We only use pictures that have been shared with the Creative Commons license and those with no known copyright. You may click on photo credits link in any book to link to the pages on Flickr for the photos. Of course, the pictures remain the property of photographers who took them and all the restrictions they placed on their use still apply.

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THE RAINBOW STORY

Click on the links below to go to the Flickr page for each photograph.

 Flickr Once upon a time, up in the sky, seven colours were fighting among them.
 Flickr Red colour said that it was the colour of love and passion.
 Flickr Orange colour replied that it was the colour of fire and the strongest of them all.
 Flickr Yellow colour shouted that it was the colour of the sun and the warmest of them all.
 Flickr Green colour continued the discussion saying that it was the colour of hope and the happiest of them all.
 Flickr Blue colour claimed that it was the colour of the sky and the sea, and it was the most relaxing of them all.
 Flickr Indigo colour argued that it was the colour of deep midnight sky, and it was the most spiritual of them all.
 Flickr Purple colour finished the discussion telling that it was the most royal and magic colour.
 Flickr It seemed to be a nice day but suddenly a big storm appeared and it started to rain.
 Flickr All colours were scared of what was going to happen.
 Flickr Mother nature God offered to put them up at her place.
 Flickr She threatened that they would lose their powers if they didn't respect each other.
 Flickr But they didn't want to talk to each other.
 Flickr Mother Nature showed them what it would be like for people to live without colours: sad people...
 Flickr Sad landscapes...
 Uploaded Sad animals...
 Flickr The colours realized that they needed each other to keep a wonderful world.
 Flickr So, the colours decided to group together to give colour to our world.
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