By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Fresh.
Kayaking, we soon become familiar with a distinct hierarchy of freshness. In descending order, there is—
Fresh off the tree!
(story is here)
Fresh and cold from the store!
(more photos are here)
Fruit that stays surprisingly fresh on a long trip…
(more photos are here)
and something that was fresh once in the depths of the dry bag.
(story is here)
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By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Tilted.
Here’s a photo of me sailing my kayak through New York Harbor—that’s the Empire State Building in the distance—back in 2007. The camera, set to take a photo automatically every 10 minutes, was mounted on the outrigger arm, but evidently not very firmly: it started rotating round it, so that when I got home, I found I had photos tilted at all angles, even some upside down…
More about my kayak sailing adventures can be found here, here, and here.
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Tagged Kayak Sailing, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Tilted, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
... 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.
... 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.
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