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Photography 101: Establishing a Point of View

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Happy Labor Day!

By Vladimir Brezina

… Labor Day, and (practically speaking) the beginning of Fall!

Here are a few celebratory photos taken at yesterday’s Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition. Lots more photos to come. (Last year’s are here.)

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Travel Theme: Distance

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Distance.

Distant views from the Cordillera Central of Puerto Rico, October 2001.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Sea.

Where the sea meets the land is where it’s at. But you never know what you’ll get. It can be

too wimpy—

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too scary—

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or just right!

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The first Sea post was here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Sea.

On the broad windswept beaches of England’s North Sea coast, the presence of the sea really forces itself upon your attention…

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(Norfolk, England, August 2001)

A second Sea post is here.

Ederle Swim 2013

By Vladimir Brezina

Under the Verrazano Narrows BridgeOn Sunday a week ago, August 18th, I found myself once more in my kayak accompanying a long-distance swimmer through New York Harbor.

It was the day of this year’s Ederle Swim, a 17.5 -mile open-water swim from Manhattan to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, organized by NYC Swim. This year’s swim was in fact the centennial swim, since the first successful swim over that course, after a number of failed attempts, occurred a hundred years ago almost to the day, on August 28th, 1913.

My swimmer this year was Barbara Held, from San Diego, California. Having completed her Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming—the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the Catalina Channel, and the English Channel—Barbara was looking for new challenges!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Focus.

Isolating the main subject in sharp focus against a blurry background is often the beginning of a powerful photograph. But it’s easy to then lose sight of the fact that the blurry background is still there and can make or break the photo, no less than the main subject. It’s helpful to forget that the photo is of something and see it instead, for a moment, just as a two-dimensional plane of abstract shapes and colors…

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The first Focus post was here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Focus.

Got to focus on what’s most important…

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Thunderstorm over the Gulf of Mexico, St. Pete Beach, Florida, August 2013. More photos are here.

A second Focus post is here.

Travel Theme: Play

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Play.

Blow your horn
... And sing out loud!

From the 2013 Coney Island Mermaid Parade.

Photography 101: Finding Your Focus

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