Category Archives: Photography

Luminous

By Vladimir Brezina

The new World Trade Center tower can be seen for miles out at sea, and at night it becomes a luminous beacon to guide sailors, and kayakers, in—

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A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Luminous.

Ornate

By Vladimir Brezina

Ornate, florid, flowery…

Ornate

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Ornate.

Frame

By Vladimir Brezina

For this week’s travel-themed photo challenge, Ailsa wants Frame.

Frame

Someone thought this was a good idea for a costume for our annual Halloween block party in 2011. What were they thinking?

We’ll see what tonight’s party brings. Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat

By Vladimir Brezina

No tricks, only treats, with this one.

Trick or Treat 1

Not so sure about this one, though…

Trick or Treat 2

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Treat.

Below

By Vladimir Brezina

We are floating offshore in the Coral Sea, about twenty miles out from Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia.

What lies below the surface?

Below 1

The Great Barrier Reef!

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A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Below.

Careful

By Vladimir Brezina

How do you handle a crocodile? Very CAREFULLY.

Careful(… even a little one, with its mouth taped shut)

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Careful.

(Extra)ordinary

By Vladimir Brezina

A fire? Nothing out of the ordinary.

But a fire in a cozy fireplace in a New York apartment, deep inside a high-rise building? We are already beginning to appreciate how extraordinary that is, as winter is surely coming

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A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, (Extra)ordinary.

Paint, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

As we paddle through the backwaters of NYC’s industrial waterways, we come to close quarters with hundreds of barges and scows, many of which seem to have seen some service.

Colorful barges 1

As we brush past their battered sides, we admire their colorful peeling paint—

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A second contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Paint. The first contribution was here.

Paint

By Vladimir Brezina

Not so yellow submarine...This is how we’ve always before seen the Yellow Submarine of Brooklyn

—but what a difference a fresh coat of paint makes!

A fresh coat of paint(story and more photos here)

A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Paint. A second contribution is here.

Happy Place

By Vladimir Brezina

No words are needed…

Happy Place

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Happy Place.