I decided to do a week-long series called "Warning Signs" for my Year in iPhone Photos this week.

Just how slow are they ?

Don't go there ...

Sign at Rutland Water warning against bird 'flu.

Near our campsite, the Corps of Engineers had put up a boat launch ramp. Apparently some people have driven right into the water, so they put up this warning sign. I can see the water. I can see the boats. I guess someone else didn't.

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i love alliterations...

only in central london do you get a brass plaque warning sign - view LARGE

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Warning sign at Llandetty Church. And it's a very appropriate warning sign too.

Warning sign found on some electrical stuff behind the Wal Mart complex. I didn't touch it, only got close enough to take this picture.

Think of the flowers! As an aside, this made for an incredibly pleasant experience in the Butchart Gardens.

I didn't see any moose, but these signs were every few miles along the freeway.

This was a sign outside an old disused mine in Wales.

Hold children by the hand.

A fairly comprehensive selection of warning signs from a building site in Covent Garden, London - possibly the Opera House. June 2003.

Pedestrian warning: "Stay Safe - Stay Alert! Don't Run Crazily Out Into the Street!"

I'm not sure "be prepared" is the right phrase here. I could see "beware of" maybe....

This sign was in the baggage collection area of the Ayers Rock airport.

The Moki Dugway, on Utah Route 261, near Monument Valley, is an 1100 vertical feet change in just three twisting gravel miles.

Best experienced heading southbound in a vehicle with reliable brakes. The road is graded and maintained and should be easily handled by any passenger vehicle.

These signs are attached to a large Water Tank at our local park. I was a little apprehensive about even taking this picture – they do not seem easily amused.

However, throwing caution to the wind, I snapped my little photos. In this one I was delighted by the texture of the steel plates and their connecting welds.

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Mini roundabout warning sign.

Imber, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

Lots of peril at the tomb city «Necropoli Etrusche di Cerveteri», about 45 kilometers northwest of Rome. Good thing there are lots of empty graves waiting to be filled, then.

This is an example of a local attempt to reproduce the standard Romanian sign, but note that the girl leads, she is not carrying a handbag, and there is a line symbolizing the ground.

...is forbidden.

Left picture: "test your dance moves on the water"

Right picture: "raise your hand to find out if tide is waning or waxing."

Honolulu Street Art

Awesome-looking sign in Honolulu

Wentzville, MO- I- 70 & US 40 W Bound is a little winding through the city between Church Street and Wentzville Parkway.

Location: Auschwitz I, Poland.

There is a line just in front of this sign, a few steps away from the electric fence you see behind it.

If you crossed it, you were shot by SS officers in the tower above it, or killed yourself by voluntarily throwing yourself on the wires before bullets got to you.

The irony of this sign is unbelievable. For the majority of people in Auschwitz, whether they stopped behind the line or not, didn't make a difference.

You halt or you stoj, you live a little longer, then you die. You don't stop, you die.

Auschwitz was a place were people either found God and looked to Him for hope and strength, or lost faith completely.

At the start of the walk into the wood beneath Great Rock coming from Hennock is this warning sign.

Warning sign at Pacaya

Walnut Creek, California | August 2013

© David Ross Smith

....they do grow big.