By Vladimir Brezina
Tiny holds even tinier—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Tiny.
By Vladimir Brezina
Tiny holds even tinier—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Tiny.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Crab, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Tiny, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Earlier this spring in NYC’s Central Park…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Vivid.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Flowers, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Spring, Spring Blossoms, Vivid, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
We are about to be hit by one of the Forces of Nature…
(In the Florida Everglades—story and more photos are here.)
A second contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Forces of Nature. The first contribution was here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Clouds, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Forces of Nature, Kayaking, Photography, postaday, postaweek2015, Storm, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The towers of Manhattan are insignificant under the looming storm clouds…
(more photos are here and here)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Forces of Nature. A second contribution is here.
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Clouds, Forces of Nature, Manhattan, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Storm, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina


From our 2011 kayak trip from Albany to NYC
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Youngsters.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Canada Geese, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Youngsters
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Intricate, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Red cabbage, Vegetable, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The early bird captures the shot…
Start of the 2014 Everglades Challenge, Tampa Bay, Florida
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Early Bird.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Early Bird, Everglades Challenge, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Sunrise, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Ephemeral, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Spider web, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!
Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
This is quite possibly my favorite poem ever. I once memorized part of it to recite for Vlad’s birthday. It always gives me shivers, in part because Whitman was, literally, talking directly to us, “men and women generations after me”.
But this past February, there weren’t many “crested and scallop-edg’d waves”—only acres of ice floes, bobbing sluggishly in the current. It’s hard to believe that lively, open water will return–but spring is less than a month away!
Ice floes have their own bleak beauty, though, especially during a snowstorm. I recently took a walk along the East River and up alongside the Harlem River. This is what I saw (click any photo to start slideshow):
Posted in Life, Nature, New York City
Tagged East River, Harlem River, Ice, New York City, Snow, Walt Whitman
By Vladimir Brezina
On an overcast, dull winter day in NYC’s Central Park, there is not much color and nothing moves—except squirrels!
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
And who knew that the word “squirrel” was so hard to pronounce? See here—
So, for days now, Johna and I have been saying “skvirel” to each other :-)
Posted in Culture, Humor, Nature, New York City
Tagged Animals, Central Park, Humor, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Pronunciation, Squirrel