By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Symbol.
Our travel on the water, no less than on land, is governed by symbols…
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
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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Wind Against Current 
Top photo – Hudson River Islands, October 2013 – superb composition which really pulls you into the scene and what a tranquil scene it looks. I would love to be there!
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We still have to write up that trip, but some photos from previous trips there are here and here. Thanks!! :-)
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Lovely photos, as always. Glad you see the beauty in some of these more “basic” things.
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Well, we do pay a lot of attention to these basic things… ;-)
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True. I hear what you’re saying!!
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Awesome photos!
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Thanks!!
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The symbols that guide us to a safe harbor, much like Nelson Mandela. Great choice.
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Thank you! :-)
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the birds with IB green sign…how neat is that…they literally took it over for their home place…what are they called???
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Birds like to do that… These are double-crested cormorants.
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thanks …knew you would know…since seeing them a lot…
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The colors are magnificent, so lively! Good post.
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Thanks, Marion!!
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Pawsome photos =^.^=
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Thanks! :-) :-)
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I especially like the one that says 1B
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Seems to be the favorite… :-)
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This post is fantastic! The birds really are the exclamation mark on your brilliant shots, even leaving their ‘markings’ on the DJ buoy. :)
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And even more on the rocks of the Dry Salvages… Nice thought of the birds as exclamation marks—thanks! :-)
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Dry Salvages is another great post. The seal being the Granddaddy of exclamation marks! :) Great work.
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I’ll have to remember the exclamation marks idea—it works! :-)
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Vlad when I write I love using the exclamation mark…a lot. :) enough to drive an English teacher mad. When I saw the birds, and their assorted decorations, it jumped into my head. At any rate congrats on the excellent results.
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English teachers—what do they know? ;-)
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I love the third photo the colour and compostion :). Symbols in the water are very important!
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You can be sure that we pay very close attention to the symbols in the water–if for no better reason than to avoid running into them! ;-)
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I am in love with your first photo. Beautiful color, shapes, composition… it all comes together for me. What great fun to see the birds taking advantage of the signs to make homes. Wonderful examples of symbols.
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Give birds an inch, and they will take a mile… ;-)
Thanks!!
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So many, so varied yet all doing the same thing, warning, instruction. A unique post
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So glad you think so—thank you!! :-)
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Again great.
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Thanks, Irene! :-)
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Pesky cormorants!!
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No, we like them! … As long as we stay upwind of them, that is—their fishy smell can be pretty strong :-)
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I especially love that the birds have found a place for themselves. :-)
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In places like that they are in the middle of the harbor where they can fish all they want, yet nobody bothers them there—except now and again a few kayakers ;-)
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A lovely collection of guiding symbols Vlad….I love the ones with the watery wiggly reflections :-)
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:-) We do see those quite often, and I always try to include them…
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Given the color of your boats, it’s not surprising — but I was struck by how Christmas-y these “symbols” are, so much red and green!
But possibly stop and go? No, Christmas, I think.
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Surely Christmas!! :-)
Actually, something like left and right, although it can get complicated…
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Excellent take on theme, something most of us might not think of.
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We do have a slightly different perspective… :-)
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Indeed :) That is part of the reason I enjoy reading this blog.
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