By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Smoke and Mirrors, in honor of Smoke and Mirrors Day (where do these designations come from?), “which celebrates all things magical and illusory”.
The magical smoke and mirrors of a calm dawn on the river…
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Smoke and Mirrors, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Once again, the Weekly Photo Challenge and Ailsa’s Travel Theme are in uncanny synergy—this week, the two themes are Future Tense and Time.
And here’s a photo that seems to me to symbolize these two themes. I know many of you have seen it before. But that was back in November. Time has passed, and what was then the Future has now most likely become the Present…
Posted in Photography
Tagged Future Tense, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Time, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime. I’ve already shown what our lunchtime very often looks like. And continuing the same theme, here is today’s lunch!
It was snowing.
But lunch was just one of the many high points of this trip, which Johna is writing up. Watch this space!
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Lunchtime, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime.
When lunchtime rolls around, we’ve already been paddling for hours—and we are starving!
Sometimes we land. Over the years, we’ve had lunch in many memorable, picturesque spots—
But often it’s just not convenient to land. We have our lunch on the water—
And in winter we really don’t want to get out of our boats at all. We raft up for a few minutes in the lee of a convenient windbreak—on a Manhattan circumnavigation, we head for our favorite barge off Randall’s Island—for some hot tea and salami and cheese—
And let me tell you, it tastes damn good under the circumstances!
(And a second post on the Lunchtime theme, showing our most recent lunch at the barge, is here.)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Lunchtime, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Our Neighborhood.
Last week’s snowstorm was surely the last gasp of winter. On Saturday, the remnants of the snow were vanishing in the warm sunshine, the first flowers were peeping out from under last year’s dead leaves, and everyone was out in Central Park. I was there too with my camera (not my cell phone)…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
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Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, New York City, Our Neighborhood, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Spring, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Photography
Tagged Abstract, Florida, Lost in the Details, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Lost in the Details.
Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.
But then the tide came in
and so I could not tell whether it really was ad infinitum.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Lost in the Details, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Shells, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Bridges.
Ailsa asks, “Are you ready to cross the bridge when you come to it?” But we follow quite another set of routes through the city, which were there before the first bridge was ever built over them…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Bridges, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Forward, Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial.
Paddling through New York Harbor, the ecosystem that we observe is not Nature, but Industry. Where elsewhere we might hope for close-up sightings of animals coming down to the water’s edge, in the harbor we observe the raw workings of industry. Industrial enterprises line the banks and occupy the scraps of waste land in the corners of the harbor. They present their best faces to the land, but as we paddle past, through, and sometimes even under them, we peer into their back yards…
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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