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
Posted in Kayaking
Tagged George Washington Bridge, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sea, Silver, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Family.
And, for some reason, this picture just says “Family” to me… ;-)
A good candidate for a caption contest. Anyone care to try?
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Family, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Window: “Windows … are portals into the world’s stories. Glimpses into other people’s lives.”
From our window in the big city, we see ten thousand other windows light up as dusk falls—ten thousand stories all around us. It’s touching to realize, as a general proposition, that they are there.
But ten thousand are too many. There’s no special reason to look into one lighted window or another. And nobody worries about being the one among ten thousand that somebody might be watching. This is the big city. Hardly anybody even bothers to lower their blinds…
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged City Life, Dusk, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Weekly Photo Challenge, Window
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Illuminated.
Sunrise at Waquoit State Park, Cape Cod, May 2013 (story and more photos here).
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Cape Cod, Illuminated, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sunrise, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
A few photos I managed to capture on Saturday in Manhattan’s Central Park before my fingers started freezing—
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Ice, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Snow, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
The first Photo Challenge of the new year is, very appropriately, Beginning, while Ailsa’s travel-themed challenge is Possibility. Great minds think alike, it seems :-)
At the beginning of each day we launch to new possibilities—
From our recent trip through the Florida Everglades.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Beginning, Everglades, Florida Kayaking, Kayaking, Photography, Possibility, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
Now that the madness of the holidays is over and we are paddling out into calmer waters, we’d like to wish you, all our friends and faithful readers of Wind Against Current, a most happy and successful 2014, wherever your adventures may take you!
... 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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