By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Companionable.
Rafted up companionably for lunch…
Another interpretation of “Companionable” is here.
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Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... 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.Johna Till Johnson
... 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.Recent Comments
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This looks like such huge fun!
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It is huge fun! (Even on those occasions when we raft up for lunch because it is too cold to land and get out of the boats for lunch…)
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wow!
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:-)
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You always get lots of color in your shots.
janet
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I like color :-)
Thanks, Janet!
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I love this of the two of you, or rather the two of your kayaks nose to nose.
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:-) Somehow we always do seem to raft up nose to nose, so that we are both looking in the same direction—even though we’ve long since figured out that nose to tail is actually more practical in several ways…
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Yes, I see how that would make sense!! I’m loving your city-view kayak photos. I’m in Boston, but have only done the city scene by kayak once, but even that outing had a heron sighting, a black-crowned night heron lurking beneath a bridge. The herons must be following me or something.
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Herons and especially egrets are pretty common in New York Harbor, too. They seem to coexist well with harbor activities and people generally. As long as they have even the tiniest scrap of land along the water, they are happy…
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Or a fisherman to follow! Here, they sometimes seem to wait for handouts. Catch & release is very popular with some birds.
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See here and here! :-)
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Wonderful, thanks for the links! They are such endearing characters, aren’t they.
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They sure are!
I have lots more bird photos from several trips to Florida—still sorting through them…
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Good news. A person – me – can never see too many heron photos. Btw, on my site, the photo in the post about the one that didn’t get away was a pike that a fisherman tossed back to the heron. The fisherman reeled in the pike, then whistled to the heron, as one calls a dog (two fingers between his lips for a loud whistle), held out the pike, then tossed it to the waiting heron. Yum.
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Yes, they do seem to be amenable to interspecies collaboration :-)
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Great phrasing, “intersperses collaboration!”
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Speaking of intersperses and fishing (if not exactly “collaboration”):
http://io9.com/5937824/remarkable-video-footage-reveals-this-bird-is-more-skilled-at-bait+fishing-than-most-humans?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
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Great video—thanks!!
(I would object to some of the commentary, however: “One would be hard pressed to argue that this bird is not thinking critically about the technique it is employing to catch its prey. Not only is it demonstrating logic and reason…” That’s the analytical human point of view, not necessarily how animals—or indeed humans themselves—actually work.)
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Exactly so – actually I only meant to share the video clip, because the commentary has little bearing on my sense of reality. I should have clarified that up front. My bad…
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A very creative interpretation of companionable…refreshing change from all the dogs and cats I’ve seen. :-)
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I thought it would be… although I lapsed just a bit in my second “Companionable” post :-)
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I did know it. I felt there was something missing in your first post. I like this one much more!
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:-)
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This is so sweet. :)
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:-)
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You are an inspiration, thanks!
All the best,
Hanna
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Thank you so much, and all the best to you too, Hanna!! :-)
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