Category Archives: Photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is From Above.

Kayak sailing in Long Island Sound, NY, in August 2007. The camera was mounted at the top of the mast.

Day 2, 12:20 PM

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Story is here, more photos are here.

Travel Theme: Light

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Belize, March 2010.

A Word A Week Challenge: Dawn

By Vladimir Brezina

Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Dawn.

Dawn on the beach…

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… and in the city

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

Nothing endures but change — Heraclitus

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This is a second response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Change. The first response was here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Change.

A place of great change, sudden and gradual, catastrophic and constructive, individual and collective, visible all around—

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—the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.

Travel Theme: Benches

By Vladimir Brezina

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

Will these chairs do? To us, they are the image of deep summer

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(Greenport, NY, during our 2012 kayak circumnavigation of Long Island)

Amaryllis Redux

By Vladimir Brezina

A month ago, our Amaryllis stirred to life. Day by day, it extended further a slender green flower stalk and eventually unfolded at the end of it three huge red flowers. But their time of glory was brief. When they had shriveled, we cut off the stalk and thought that the show was over for this year.

So we were amazed to find, growing out of the bulb some days later, not just a couple of green leaves but another flower stalk, which has now brought forth another two beautiful flowers—

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… just in time for a second response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Color! (The first response was here.)

Travel Theme: Pale

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Pale. Once again, her chosen theme is somehow strangely linked to The Daily Post’s photo challenge this week, Color—although for a change it’s the polar opposite.

In response to The Daily Post’s challenge, I’ve posted some highly colored kayaking photos. But of course I have some pale ones as well…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Color.

Kayaking can be a very colorful sport!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is A Day in My Life.

Last Saturday, toward evening, I took a walk through NYC’s Central Park.

First I visited our patch of ground. And on that patch, which we had picked for being so unremarkable, a crop of colorful crocuses had sprung up…

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A few more photos are here.