I was mainly replying about the hovering rocks but from a somewhat limited experience it seems to me that without adjustment many cameras emphasise blue - my old dead one did (a pocketable canon), a mates Canon DSLR does and my Nikon does - all to varying degrees ofcourse. This may explain why the blue t-shirts et al show up very vividly. I actually like the effect so I've not corrected my camera. Ofcourse if it's too much I tweak in photoshop rather than the camera.
Also your screen has a certain bias as well. Not many people calibrate their screens (I don't) and it is surprising how different thing look on different screens. If you use a TFT screen it almost certainly isn't showing true 24-Bit colour, it's likely to be a 16 bit TN panel. Thats a big difference, 65000 colours against 16million and this may be the biggest factor. For the most people this doesn't matter (screens dither the extras pretty well), unless you're a graphics artist I suppose.
If you have Photoshop it's definitely worth learning more as even with my limited use and experience (well lets face it Photoshop is a huge program) you can make some striking changes to images. I always intend to learn more properly, but never seem to have the time.
The pink comment I think refers to the fact that girls of a certain age are magnetically attracted to pink and nothing seems to be able to be done about it. At least I think that's the sort of highly paraphrased quote. I tend to read a couple of books a week during my commute so it's easy to forget - obviously not all pterrys but I'd have a soft spot for him anyway as he replied to an email I sent, thankfully he's a great writer anyway and it is a huge shame about the Alzheimers.
As it's not exactly walking (though sort of photographic), so we probably ought to take further discussion to PMs so as not to invoke the-wrath-of-mods(tm).