By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Sky, and the Weekly Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light! Putting the two together—
Crepuscular rays, also called “Backstays of the Sun” and even “Fingers of God”. Let There Be Light, indeed!
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Clouds, Crepuscular Rays, Let There Be Light!, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sky, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Oh, all right… I can’t resist having a third go at this week’s Photo Challenge, Let There Be Light! (The first two responses were here and here.)
The Tribute in Light, seen on our Hidden Harbor Tour on September 10, 2013.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light! Our first response was here, but here’s another, quite different take on the theme…
Little pools of light in the gathering darkness… The lamps come on in NYC’s Central Park on a snowy night.
February 8, 2013. More photos are here. And yet a third interpretation of “Let There Be Light!” is here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, Lamp, Let There Be Light!, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Snow, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light!
Artificial lights are all very well, but they can’t compete with the real thing!
(Two more interpretations of “Let There Be Light!” are here and here.)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Forest, Let There Be Light!, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sun, Weekly Photo Challenge
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This is the sixteenth installment of Photography 101.
Last week, fellow photographers on WordPress.com introduced their workflows and editing processes, and talked about how their very best images move from their cameras to their blogs. Today, we’ll wrap up this discussion and focus on important pre-publish tasks and ways to protect your photography online.
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By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Unexpected.
On our kayak trips through New England, we expect to see birds, seals, even whales…
But one day last May, as I was paddling through the desolate Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts, I rounded a rocky point and came face to face with this huge, shaggy, horned beast, lounging on the beach and looking at me with uncomfortable interest.
Unexpected, to say the least.
The story of that trip and more photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Elizabeth Islands, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Unexpected, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Fragrant.
It’s not even Thanksgiving, but the first Christmas decorations have already made their appearance in NYC store windows, so it’s not too early for this post…
No plastic Christmas trees for us. We always have a real tree. Plastic trees can look pretty, but lack an essential element of Christmas—the fragrance of a real tree, especially when that fragrance is released by the heat of real candles…
More photos from Christmas 2011 are here, and from Christmas 2012 here. Looking forward to Christmas 2013!
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Tree, Christmas Tree Candles, Fragrant, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Yesterday afternoon in New York City’s Central Park (click on any photo to start slideshow)—
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
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This is the fifteenth installment of Photography 101.
In her Photography 101 tutorial, Leanne Cole introduced us to the basics of image editing, using tools in Adobe Photoshop. As we mentioned, you don’t have to pay for software to edit and process your images — there are free options out there like Pixlr and Picasa, as well as built-in tools on your Mac or editing and organizing tools for Windows, like Photo Gallery.
Today, we’re talking with WordPress.com photographers about their workflows: after a photo shoot, what do they do next? How does an image move from camera to blog? “Getting the shot” is just one part of the process. Whether you’re a professional photographer or a beginning photoblogger, you should have a process for uploading and displaying your images on your blog.
Let’s read how others do it, shall we?
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By Vladimir Brezina
We’ve traveled to Florida a number of times over the past couple of years, and each time I’ve come back with hundreds—sometimes thousands!—of bird photos. The bird life on the Gulf Coast of Florida is amazingly rich and varied, and the birds have learned to tolerate, at least up to a point, human proximity…
Needless to say, processing thousands of bird photos has taken a long time.
But I’ve been getting through it. I’ve posted a few selections of the photos along the way (here, here, here, and here), and here now is the final installment.
As usual, though, I need help with identification! The identity of many of these birds is obvious, even to me, but of others not quite so obvious. But I know there are some real Florida bird experts among our readers… :-)
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... 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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