By Vladimir Brezina
Here’s another response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week, Couples. (The first response was here.)
This was just one moment in a long, elaborate dance that this pelican couple performed for the camera…
You can just hear what these couples are saying to each other, can’t you?
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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| Johna Till Johnson on And They’re Off! |
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Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!!
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Thank you for reading!! :-)
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Pelicans have the advantage that they can look each other’s eyes when they dance cheek dance – unlike humans… :-)
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I never thought of that… a distinct advantage, when they dance cheek to cheek!
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Beautiful photographs! Great for theme you posted under. The doves and the sea lions are my favorite. Thanks for sharing with us,
Nate
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Thank you, Nate!
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the pelicans are really lovely :) and such a show off ^__^
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They really were! Here dancing cheek to cheek:
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Beautiful photos! Perfect for the pair theme. The first one is an amazing shot!
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More here :-)
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Stunning photos. Love these!
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Thanks so much!
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They’re all gorgeous, but the pelicans are spectacular! Wow!
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More here, if you haven’t seen it already…
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Thanks for the link — enjoyed the rest of the dance and the discussion thread about birds n’ dinos. They sure do look ‘dactyly! Really wonderful series of shots!
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I got lucky! :-)
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A like button doesn’t quite do this justice – it needs a Love button!
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That’s quite a comment! Thank you!! :-) :-)
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They are just precious. What a wonderful world we live in. Great images.
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Thanks so much, Angelia!
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Fantastic!!! the pelicans are my favorite
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More here…
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I enjoyed the link to the original pelican post, as well! The photo above is just a teaser for a wonderful series. ~ Kat
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I used those pelican photos already for multiple challenges—they seem to be very versatile!—so I didn’t want to repeat them all again…
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Amazing and wonderful photos. I love them ;)
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Thanks :-) :-)
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fabulous images…you are so lucky to have seen those pelicans
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Yes—as soon as I saw them I knew!
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Wonderful photos! I like the seals a lot.
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More of those here!
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I follow another photographer/kayaker from CA because the view is always so unique of the wildlife subjects. Your work is wonderful and I am glad you stopped in at GWGT so that I found my way here. I will be following you now as I just love animals and all things science.
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Plenty more to come along those lines! Thanks so much for following!! :-)
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Aww these photos are beautiful! The animals just make them so lively!
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Thanks, Evil Nymph!
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Brilliant shots – loving the pelicans who look totally in love and the seals who are clearly having a domestic :-0
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I couldn’t decide about those seals (actually sea lions)—either they are having a domestic tiff or telling jokes in a bar…
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Fantastic photos! The pelicans are gorgeous!
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More pelican shots here…
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Wonderful photo captures!! Such personalities that come through…can’t help but smile while viewing. Thank you for sharing such great shots.
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I am happy everyone liked them so much!
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brilliantly beautiful close-ups or may be you were just standing next to them!
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Actually I pretty much was standing right next to them, in all of these cases…
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Love the photos! These are just fantastic!
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Thank you!!
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Superb photographs, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks very much for stopping by and liking, Indira! :-)
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Your models allowed you to take these photographs, they are realy fantastic.
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Very beautiful shots! :)
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Thanks, Ioanna!
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Oh these are fabulous Vladimir!
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:-) :-)
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I’m not sure how I missed these–well, actually, it’s probably because I was in Turkey for three weeks, but I am doing catch up. And these photos are spectacular, particularly the first, where the bird couple’s necks twine into a heart-shape. Really stellar photo!
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Thanks, Naomi! And I did see some of your Turkish posts (balloons, etc.), which were lovely!
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Thank you!
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