By Vladimir Brezina
Look what’s floating by in the turquoise-green water!
I collect them all
to take them home.
But, sadly, the brilliant colors are evanescent…
By Vladimir Brezina
Look what’s floating by in the turquoise-green water!
I collect them all
to take them home.
But, sadly, the brilliant colors are evanescent…
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Bridges.
Ailsa asks, “Are you ready to cross the bridge when you come to it?” But we follow quite another set of routes through the city, which were there before the first bridge was ever built over them…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Bridges, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Forward, Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial.
Paddling through New York Harbor, the ecosystem that we observe is not Nature, but Industry. Where elsewhere we might hope for close-up sightings of animals coming down to the water’s edge, in the harbor we observe the raw workings of industry. Industrial enterprises line the banks and occupy the scraps of waste land in the corners of the harbor. They present their best faces to the land, but as we paddle past, through, and sometimes even under them, we peer into their back yards…
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Home.
On our kayak trips, we paddle past homes worth millions
as well as some that are modest, but offer incomparable views and fresh sea breezes—
Another Home post is here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Home, Kayaking, Nest, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Walls.
Kayaking around the highly urban New York Harbor, we pass by many colorful and inspirational walls…
More on the marine art of New York Harbor is here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Graffiti, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Walls, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Beyond.
When paddling counterclockwise around Manhattan, or down the Hudson River back to the city, there comes that breathtaking moment when the distant vista of Midtown Manhattan comes into view beyond the George Washington Bridge.
I always take a photo at that point. By now I have many, in rain and sunshine, day and night… Here are a few of them.
More photos from these trips are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
By Vladimir Brezina
On A Word In Your Ear , Skinnywench’s photo challenge this week is Cloud. Since I have so many photos of clouds—it’s hard to avoid clouds, just as it is hard to avoid water, in kayaking photos—I thought I would join in.
But, although I have many photos of clouds, the clouds of two special days stand out particularly in my memory. On those days, a dramatic, constantly changing cloudscape dominated the scene. We stared upward, mesmerized.
Here’s the first of those days.
The story of the day is here, more photos are here, and larger versions of some of the photos are here. And the second of the two spectacularly Cloudy days is here.