By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light!
Artificial lights are all very well, but they can’t compete with the real thing!
(Two more interpretations of “Let There Be Light!” are here and here.)
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light!
Artificial lights are all very well, but they can’t compete with the real thing!
(Two more interpretations of “Let There Be Light!” are here and here.)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Forest, Let There Be Light!, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sun, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Unexpected.
On our kayak trips through New England, we expect to see birds, seals, even whales…
But one day last May, as I was paddling through the desolate Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts, I rounded a rocky point and came face to face with this huge, shaggy, horned beast, lounging on the beach and looking at me with uncomfortable interest.
Unexpected, to say the least.
The story of that trip and more photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Elizabeth Islands, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Unexpected, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Yesterday afternoon in New York City’s Central Park (click on any photo to start slideshow)—
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
We’ve traveled to Florida a number of times over the past couple of years, and each time I’ve come back with hundreds—sometimes thousands!—of bird photos. The bird life on the Gulf Coast of Florida is amazingly rich and varied, and the birds have learned to tolerate, at least up to a point, human proximity…
Needless to say, processing thousands of bird photos has taken a long time.
But I’ve been getting through it. I’ve posted a few selections of the photos along the way (here, here, here, and here), and here now is the final installment.
As usual, though, I need help with identification! The identity of many of these birds is obvious, even to me, but of others not quite so obvious. But I know there are some real Florida bird experts among our readers… :-)
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Habit.
Gus the polar bear was one of the stars of Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo. New Yorkers took to him probably because, as a result of being cooped up in the equivalent of a tiny apartment, he was a creature of neurotic, not to say compulsive habits, such as obsessive swimming. But, like a true New Yorker, he managed to thrive on his neuroses—he outlived both his younger female companions, and finally died this past summer, aged 27 (which is quite old for a polar bear).
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park Zoo, Habit, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Polar Bear, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Delicate.
I wanted to come up with a Fall photo, but “Delicate” keeps suggesting Spring…
… and we do have readers in the southern hemisphere :-)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Delicate, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Spring Blossoms, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Stone.
Kayaking along the glaciated shores of Long Island, Block Island, and Cape Cod, it’s hard to miss the many glacial erratic boulders that dot the shoreline. Some are cool green stones awash in the sea. Others, more exposed, are the favorite perches of cormorants and human fishermen…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Horizon, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sunrise, Weekly Photo Challenge