Category Archives: Photography

Photography 101: Viewing the World with a Photographer’s Eye, I

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Photography 101: Introduction & Philosophy

Over the next few months, Cheri Lucas at WordPress’s The Daily Post will be running a series of posts, entitled Photography 101, by various photographers focusing on different aspects of the art and craft of photography specifically for bloggers. Judging by the first two installments that have already been published—and not just because I’ve been asked to contribute later on ;-)—it will be a great series. So I thought I would reblog each installment as it comes out here on Wind Against Current.

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Travel Theme: Flow

By Vladimir Brezina

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

No doubt you thought, us being kayakers and all, you would see in this post flowing water. But in New York City there’s plenty of flow on land…

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Skaters in Central Park.

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Descending into the subway.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Curves.

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Travel Theme: Peaceful, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Peaceful. We’ve already posted one Peaceful photo here. Here are a few more.

A peaceful early morning during our recent kayak trip in Florida

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This was Day 4 of the trip—still to be written up…

Travel Theme: Peaceful

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Seen on our 2012 Long Island kayak circumnavigation.

And here is a second take on Peaceful.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Fleeting.

Fleeting, fleeing, flying…

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Travel Theme: Costume

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Halloween 2011 and 2012 (more photos are here and here).

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is The Sign Says.

Kayaking out on open water, we meet few signs. But as soon as we come in to land, signs abound. Some of them do their best to be unavoidable. Nevertheless, we sometimes manage to avoid them—

Some years ago, Erik Baard and I paddled down from Manhattan and landed on the beach near the northwestern tip of Sandy Hook. We had a leisurely lunch, took a stroll along the beach, lazed about, and after a couple of hours were ready to paddle back to Manhattan. But just before we launched, we thought that we might, just out of curiosity, find out what those two big signs that stood there, facing away from us, said…

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And not far from that spot was another, complementary set of signs that helped complete the image of Sandy Hook, at least in those pre-Hurricane Sandy days…

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(Our first interpretation of “The Sign Says” was here.)

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is The Sign Says.

On May 20, 2011, during our multi-day paddle down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City, we landed in the town of Highland for a meal in a riverside restaurant. And we saw this sign, promising Judgment Day for tomorrow. Devastating earthquakes were predicted to usher in the Rapture!

It sure looked like our trip would enter some seriously uncharted waters. Nevertheless, we kept paddling, and made it through May 21 without incident. We later learned that Judgment Day had been postponed until October 21, and then it was abandoned altogether…

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P.S. Some people have read the bottom line of this sign as “Ediblefellowship.com”, suggesting quite another set of possibilities…

(A second interpretation of “The Sign Says” is here.)