By Vladimir Brezina
This is a second post in response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Green. The first Green post was here.
On the second night of our kayak trip down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City in May 2011, we camped on the thickly wooded Magdalen Island. As the sunlight filtered through the fresh spring leaves, it was one of the Greenest sights I’ve ever seen…
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Green, Hudson River, Kayak Camping, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Mystical. And it makes me very happy to learn that, in choosing that theme, she was inspired by a photo that I posted recently. Unfortunately that means, too, that I can no longer respond to her Mystical challenge with that, my most Mystical photo…
Never mind. Here are a few photos taken at a moment that truly came close to being mystical during one of our paddles in New York Harbor—
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Mystical, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Green.
Kayaking around New York Harbor, we see quite a few green sights…
A second “Green” post is here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Green, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Despite Hurricane Sandy, there’s still plenty of Fall color in New York’s Central Park—especially when the sun shines, as it should for the next few days. Here is a foretaste!
By Vladimir Brezina
Dawn to dusk…
By Vladimir Brezina
Here’s a second response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Soft. (The first response was here.)
The soft light of evening on the water—
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Evening, Kayaking, Long Island, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea, Soft, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Soft.
Here is a second interpretations of “Soft”.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Birds, Canada Geese, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Renewal, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
I saw this scene as the light was fading this afternoon in New York City’s Central Park (it was autumnal and chilly, by the way)…
What upcoming Photo Challenge should I reserve this photo for, do you think?
By Vladimir Brezina
Here’s a third response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Geometry.
Natural geometry…
Our first two responses to the challenge were here and here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Geometry, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea Shells, Weekly Photo Challenge
... 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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