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This is the fifteenth installment of Photography 101.
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This is the fifteenth installment of Photography 101.
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… :-)
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
By Vladimir Brezina
Some works of art were surely put there for the sole appreciation of passing kayakers…
More marine art, specifically of New York Harbor, is here.
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Short.
Compared to the Red Herring (a Feathercraft Heron kayak, 17′ 7″ long, on the right in the photo below), the Baby Vulcan (a Feathercraft K-Light kayak, on the left) is absurdly short for a sea kayak—only 12′ 10″.
It must have looked ridiculous when I paddled it, as I did for years.
But Johna finds it to be a fun boat around town
and quite capable of crossing the seas…
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Feathercraft, K-Light, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayak, Short, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged 9/11 Memorial, Layers, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
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This is the fourteenth installment of Photography 101.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Habit.
Gus the polar bear was one of the stars of Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo. New Yorkers took to him probably because, as a result of being cooped up in the equivalent of a tiny apartment, he was a creature of neurotic, not to say compulsive habits, such as obsessive swimming. But, like a true New Yorker, he managed to thrive on his neuroses—he outlived both his younger female companions, and finally died this past summer, aged 27 (which is quite old for a polar bear).
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park Zoo, Habit, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Polar Bear, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Connections.
And to travel by folding kayak, you do have to make a lot of connections…
… and maintain them in good working order!
For more, see here.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Connections, Folding Kayak, Kayak, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge