Author Archives: Vladimir Brezina

Abstract

By Vladimir Brezina

Tendrils of light and shadow…

Abstract

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Abstract.

Dinnertime

By Vladimir Brezina

Let’s eat before the rising tide submerges this sandbar, or the bugs bite us to death…

Dinnertime(During the 2014 Everglades Challenge, Florida.)

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Dinnertime.

Balance

By Vladimir Brezina

Balance 1Balance is easier with some support…

Balance 2

A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Balance.

Future

By Vladimir Brezina

Future personified…

Future

This was some years ago. What was then in the future is now far in the past…

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Future.

Refreshing

By Vladimir Brezina

Straight out of the Hudson River cooler! What could be more refreshing after the day’s paddle?

Refreshing!(Kayak camping at the Hudson River Islands State Park: see here and here.)

A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Refreshing.

Landscape

By Vladimir Brezina

Landscape 1Just as wild as the natural landscape

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is the urban landscape in which we live

Landscape 2Landscape 3

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Landscape.

More Fun with Easter Eggs

By Vladimir Brezina

The solid colors of the PAAS Easter-egg coloring kit, while very suitable for serious scientific investigation, were really just a little too plain by themselves. Fortunately the kit also included four paint-on colors and a couple of brushes. So I had a go.

Now, I can draw a stork carrying a baby as well as anyone… on a piece of dry, flat paper. But it wasn’t quite so easy on the wet, slippery egg. The paint was taking forever to dry, and guests were coming in an hour…

This is what I ended up with:

Painted Easter eggs 1 Painted Easter eggs 2 Painted Easter eggs 3

As you can see, I somehow gravitated toward fertility symbols—funny how that happens at Easter with the onset of Spring. I did think of including a few goats and maybe the great god Pan—or just naked female figures—but there wasn’t time. Maybe next year!

Come One, Come All… to the Ghostship Ball!

By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson

Vlad & Johna (photo by Larson Harley)We are getting our presentation ready!

It’s billed as “True Tales of Mystery, Majesty, and Mishap Mere Inches from the Water”. We think we can supply all of that…

Ghostship Ball

… and if the prospect of hearing us share our kayaking adventure stories isn’t enough, come for the live music, acrobats, and a growing roster of additional entertainment.

Hope to see you there!

Half-Light

By Vladimir Brezina

Half-Light 1

From the molten dyes of the water
Bring the burnished nature of fire
… Rain flakes of gold on the water

—Ezra Pound, The Alchemist

Half-Light 2Half-Light 3

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Half-Light.

Dance

By Vladimir Brezina

Dance 1.

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Seen at the 2013 Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Dance 2

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Dance.