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Aerial of desert mountains caught between the sea and the sky of Mexico's Pacific coast

The Meaning and Symbolism of Blue

November 6, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

Blue is the color of the sky and sea. During Vancouver’s Jazz Fest I lay down on a grassy knoll, listening to the music and watching the sketchy clouds in […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
Blue glass vases in a window of a museum displaying glassware in Puebla, Mexico

Ryan Photography Challenge: Vase

September 15, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

These two back-lit blue vases really caught my eye in the window of a museum displaying glassware in Puebla, Mexico. Close up of the two vases. More of the Ryan […]

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Photo Challenges
Swedish Ferry going to Denmark

Yellow and Blue: the Colours of the Swedish Flag

January 15, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

We went to Sweden after some time in Denmark and found that the Swedes do not display their flags nearly as much as the Danes. Boats are the best place […]

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Argentina, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Sweden
Frida Kahlo's house the Casa Azul, with its Mexican blue walls

Mexican Blue at Frida Kahlo’s House, the Casa Azul

August 6, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 14 Comments

In the neighbourhood of Coyoacán is Frida Kahlo’s ‘Casa Azul’, the cobalt blue house where the artist was born and spent most of her life. We were there many years […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Mexico
Hwy 5A Kentucky Alene Lake in the BC Interior, Canada

Serene Blue Mood

November 29, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Blue Mood. View of the Kentucky Alleyne Lake as we stumbled from our tent first thing in the morning.  This was taken on a sketching trip along Highway 5A, BC. By […]

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Photo Challenges, Weekly Photo Challenge
Turquoise door in Penang, Malaysia

Travel Theme: Turquoise

February 21, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 9 Comments

Some ‘turquoise’ from around the world. The third Joffre Lake, a turquoise glacial till lake, surrounded by the glacier (BC, Canada). A large piece of turquoise carved with ancient cliff […]

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Collections from Around the World, Travel Theme
Fishing Nets in Luarca, Spain

A Photo a Week Challenge: Blue (Doors)

September 30, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

A collection of blue doors from around the world. A bright blue door with a porthole window in Kinsale, Ireland. Building and door of blue weathered wood in La Conner, […]

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A Photo a Week Challenge, Collections from Around the World
Blue Hydrangea Flowers

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Blue Flowers

January 19, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures 13 Comments

Usually I try and post a selection of exotics from around the world but it turned out that most of the blue flowers I found were just outside my back […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Gardens
Beautiful Blue Bundi Door

Beautiful Blue Bundi

September 23, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 14 Comments

The colour blue, associated with blue-bodied Lord Krishna, is often used to represent Hinduism. “The Supreme Personality of Godhead [Krishna] has a cheerful, lotus-like countenance with ruddy eyes like the interior of a […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, India
an Aerial Shot of flying over the icy north

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Colour of Water in the Winter

August 12, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

Even though it was spring when we were flying over the Arctic Circle on our way home from Belgium the frozen wastes below us screamed ‘Winter’. For more on Cee’s Fun […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

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