Category Archives: Photography

Our 2014 Calendar

By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson

It’s almost the end of January, and we’re still looking up at that blank space on the wall where our 2014 calendar should be. But we aren’t going to buy one. Rather, like last year, we are going to make our own, selecting from Vlad’s photos those that seem to us to best capture the feeling of each month.

Now, finally, it’s done, and we’ve sent the calendar off to Shutterfly to be printed.

Here are the photos that we’ve selected:

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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

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Travel Theme: Wood

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Wood.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition.

In New York Harbor, little boats (juxta)posed with big ships…

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The first “Juxtaposition” post was here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

By Vladimir Brezina

Prison bargeThis week’s Photo Challenge is Juxtaposition.

As we paddle along the East River, freely enjoying the wind and waves, we never fail to glance toward the top of this immense blue and white structure, where there are usually men playing basketball in a razor-wire cage…

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It’s the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, the Rikers Island prison barge.

(A second “Juxtaposition” post is here.)

Travel Theme: Silver

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Silver.

The silver sea…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Family.

And, for some reason, this picture just says “Family” to me… ;-)

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A good candidate for a caption contest. Anyone care to try?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Window

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Window: “Windows … are portals into the world’s stories. Glimpses into other people’s lives.”

From our window in the big city, we see ten thousand other windows light up as dusk falls—ten thousand stories all around us. It’s touching to realize, as a general proposition, that they are there.

But ten thousand are too many. There’s no special reason to look into one lighted window or another. And nobody worries about being the one among ten thousand that somebody might be watching. This is the big city. Hardly anybody even bothers to lower their blinds…

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Travel Theme: Illuminated

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Illuminated.

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Sunrise at Waquoit  State Park, Cape Cod, May 2013 (story and more photos here).

Weekly Photo Challenge & Travel Theme: Beginning Full of Possibilities

By Vladimir Brezina

The first Photo Challenge of the new year is, very appropriately, Beginning, while Ailsa’s travel-themed challenge is Possibility. Great minds think alike, it seems :-)

At the beginning of each day we launch to new possibilities—

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From our recent trip through the Florida Everglades.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Joy

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Joy.

Kids have no trouble finding Joy.

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Adults sometimes have to work at it…

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Figment NYC 2011. A writeup with more photos is here.