By Vladimir Brezina
In response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Silhouette, and Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post, City—
It’s quite amazing what Photoshop can do! ;-)
By Vladimir Brezina
In response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Silhouette, and Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post, City—
It’s quite amazing what Photoshop can do! ;-)
Posted in Photography
Tagged City, Photography, Photoshop, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Silhouette, Sunday Post, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Couples.
Ah, the romance of shared travel by kayak! And what better to ensure that shared togetherness than a double kayak?
Soon arguments break out, and loud words carry over the water, to the secret amusement of other paddlers.
“Shouldn’t you be steering more to the left?”
“I know where I am going!”
“I thought we agreed to stop on that beach over there!?”
The couple have trouble paddling at the same rate and synchronizing their strokes…
and both feel that they are doing all the work
until they both just put down their paddles in frustration
No wonder double kayaks are known as “divorce boats”!
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The last photo features another prominent couple in the background. And a couple of other “Couples” are here and here…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Couples, Double Kayak, Kayaking, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
Most architectural sculptures work hard at their jobs.
Caryatids carry things on their heads….
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… atlants bow down under the weight of entire facades
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… even gargoyles make themselves useful when it rains
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But these guys are just hanging out, shooting the breeze…
What was the sculptor thinking? Any ideas?
By Vladimir Brezina
Here’s another response to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week, Couples. (The first response was here.)
This was just one moment in a long, elaborate dance that this pelican couple performed for the camera…
You can just hear what these couples are saying to each other, can’t you?
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Birds, Couples, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge this week is Silhouette. And Ailsa’s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge is Couples. Here’s a photo that combines both themes…
Additional interpretations of “Silhouette” are here and here. And of “Couples”, here and here.
Posted in Photography
Tagged Couples, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Puerto Rico, Silhouette, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Silhouette.
Wait, didn’t we already do that theme just a little while ago? Yes, back in August. But that was not the Daily Post’s challenge—it was Ailsa’s challenge on Where’s my backpack?, ahead of the game as usual… (Ailsa herself posted some fantastic silhouettes that you should definitely check out!)
In any case, here are some more silhouettes, or near-silhouettes. A hard-edged one in the late-afternoon sun…
and others softened as the sunlight filters through early-morning fog…
More photos from that trip are here. A second interpretation of “Silhouette” is here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Silhouette, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Evening, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
This week, Ailsa’s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge is On Display.
And it’s that time of year again…
This was the display last year (more photos are here). This year’s display is already starting to go up. Watch this space in a couple of weeks!
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Big.
It’s big…
… but it always amazes me how tiny it appears when we turn the corner and see it across the harbor, against the immensity of the sea and sky. There it is, just to the left of the sunlit section of the city ahead…
It’s a matter of perspective.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Big, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Statue of Liberty, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
I had hoped to post this last spring, in time for the 2012 camping season. But it’s not too late! The fall, with its spectacular foliage colors, is here—to my mind, the best time of the year to go camping at this spot… and in fact, Johna and I have plans to head up there for a couple of days soon to see the show!
The length of the Hudson River between Albany and New York City offers a number of kayak camping spots. But none is so attractive as the Hudson River Islands State Park, about 20 miles south of Albany and several miles north of the town of Hudson.
I’ve paddled and camped there many times in every season over the past decade, and I never fail to stop there on through trips down the river. In this complex of islands, back bays, and creeks, rich in plant and animal life, there is always something new to see. And most of the year, except during the peak season in the summer, chances are that you’ll have it all to yourself. Although it’s quite accessible, it feels secluded, remote, almost wild…