By Vladimir Brezina
Tiny holds even tinier—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Tiny.
By Vladimir Brezina
Tiny holds even tinier—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Tiny.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Crab, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Tiny, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation, 4th Edition, by David Burch. Falcon Guides, Globe Pequot Press, 2008
The availability of handheld charting GPS units has made small-boat navigation so easy that many kayakers are neglecting the basic principles that must be used to make navigation, including GPS navigation, safe and efficient. And what to do if that magic box fails, as in a kayak it sooner or later will, due to water intrusion or just dead batteries? David Burch is passionate about all aspects of small-boat navigation, and it shows. His Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation, now in its 4th edition (2008), is a classic.
In this book Burch covers
and many other topics.
The book is a pleasure to read. Each topic is covered in considerable but never excessive detail, and accompanied by plentiful, beautifully clear illustrations that effectively focus on the point being made in each case.
Burch well understands the difficulties of navigating a kayak that may be awash in waves, where the usual navigational tools are lacking, where it may even be impossible to refold the chart in the wind! This is a book specifically about kayak navigation.
The section on GPS and other electronic resources is inevitably somewhat dated (technology has progressed so rapidly since 2008!) and not so useful. This is not a book for those who want to understand how to use their GPS.
Otherwise, Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation is the one-stop resource for everything kayak-navigation-related. As I said, a classic!
By Vladimir Brezina Double Off-Center, from Halloween 2012.
A contribution to Ailsa’s photo challenge this week, Off-Centre.
Posted in Art, New York City, Photography
Tagged Costumes, Halloween, Off-Centre, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Earlier this spring in NYC’s Central Park…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Vivid.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Flowers, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Spring, Spring Blossoms, Vivid, Weekly Photo Challenge
Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... 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.
Johna Till Johnson
... 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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