By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Dry.
As kayakers, we like Wet. We don’t like Dry at all!
“I don’t believe this!! There was water all the way up to these rocks yesterday!?”
Denial
Anger
Depression
Acceptance
(A day on Cape Cod Bay in 2011.)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Cape Cod, Cape Cod Bay, Dry, Low Tide, Massachusetts Sea Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sea Kayaking, Tide, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Object.
When we land somewhere on our kayaking expeditions, for lunch or to camp for the night, we aim to leave nothing behind and to take nothing with us when we leave again. But sometimes we find there a little object that just begs to be taken home as a souvenir…
Here is one such, in situ
It’s coming home with us
to join others, from other journeys
(This little green fish is a souvenir of our stay on Stockport Middle Ground during our 2011 trip down the Hudson from Albany to New York City.)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Object, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Souvenirs, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
<—Previous in Everglades Shakedown
Start: Highland Beach.
Finish: South Joe River Chickee.
Distance: About 23 nautical miles.
Paddling time: Roughly 10 hours; average pace 2.3 knots.
Posted in Kayaking
Tagged Everglades, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Kayak Camping, Kayak Expeditions, Photography, Sea Kayaking
By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
It’s almost the end of January, and we’re still looking up at that blank space on the wall where our 2014 calendar should be. But we aren’t going to buy one. Rather, like last year, we are going to make our own, selecting from Vlad’s photos those that seem to us to best capture the feeling of each month.
Now, finally, it’s done, and we’ve sent the calendar off to Shutterfly to be printed.
Here are the photos that we’ve selected:
(More photos are here)
Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!
Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me
Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged 2014, Calendar, Kayaking, Nature, New Year, New York City, Photography
By Johna Till Johnson
As many of our readers know, I’m a huge fan of bridges. To me, they’re beautiful both physically and metaphorically—lovely structures that bring two sides together. Although my favorite bridge is the Hell Gate Bridge, I’m passionate about all the New York waterway bridges.
So it’s a big deal to me that New York will be replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge—and the new structure will be complete relatively soon (supposedly, by 2018).
Here’s what the Tappan Zee Bridge looks like today:
And here’s what it’s supposed to look like in future:
I’m not crazy about the outward-reaching “harp” towers… but it is a bridge, and I love bridges… What do you think?
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Abstract, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wood
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
<— Previous in Everglades Shakedown
Start: Darwin’s Place.
Finish: Highland Beach.
Distance: About 18 nautical miles.
Paddling time: Roughly 8 hours; average pace 2.3 knots.
Posted in Kayaking
Tagged Everglades, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Kayak Camping, Kayak Expeditions, Photography, Sea Kayaking
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition.
In New York Harbor, little boats (juxta)posed with big ships…
The first “Juxtaposition” post was here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Barges, Juxtaposition, Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Ships, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition.
As we paddle along the East River, freely enjoying the wind and waves, we never fail to glance toward the top of this immense blue and white structure, where there are usually men playing basketball in a razor-wire cage…
It’s the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, the Rikers Island prison barge.
(A second “Juxtaposition” post is here.)
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Juxtaposition, Kayaking, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Prison, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
NYC’s Central Park, during yesterday’s snowstorm…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Snow, Snow Storm
... 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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