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?
The Great Barrier Reef!
(more photos still to come…)
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Below.
Posted in Nature, Photography, Sports, Travel
Tagged Australia, Below, Great Barrier Reef, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Snorkeling, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
How do you handle a crocodile? Very CAREFULLY.
(… even a little one, with its mouth taped shut)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Careful.
Posted in Nature, Photography, Travel
Tagged Australia, Careful, Crocodile, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
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…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, (Extra)ordinary.
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged (Extra)ordinary, Fire, Fireplace, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
As we returned from our paddle on Sunday night, the Manhattan skyline glowed in the last rays of the sunset, then grew cool with a myriad twinkling lights—
(click on any photo to enlarge it)
And here are some GoPro clips of that part of our trip (the water drops on the lens are a distinct nuisance!):
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The story and photos of the rest of the trip are here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Kayak Photography, Kayaking, Manhattan, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, Sunset
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.
As we brush past their battered sides, we admire their colorful peeling paint—
A second contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Paint. The first contribution was here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Abstract, Barges, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Paint, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This is how we’ve always before seen the Yellow Submarine of Brooklyn—
—but what a difference a fresh coat of paint makes!
(story and more photos here)
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Paint. A second contribution is here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Paint, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow Submarine
By Vladimir Brezina
No words are needed…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Happy Place.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Happy Place, Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines.So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found a sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine…
The yellow submarine isn’t just an invention of the Beatles—it exists for real. And it had gotten a paint job, courtesy of our friend Erik Baard and his HarborLab crew. So we decided it was high time to paddle out and see the results.
Let me back up… in the waters of Coney Island Creek, just off Gravesend Bay, there rests—amazingly, improbably!—a yellow submarine. We’ve told a fuller story here, but suffice it to say that the story of its existence just underscores the crazy sense of possibility that permeated the 1960s.
But it’s closing in on 50 years since the yellow submarine was launched, and it had become somewhat the worse for wear. So when we heard it had recovered its original cheerful coloring, we had to go see.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Brooklyn, Coney Island, Kayaking, Long-Distance Swim, Manhattan, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, Yellow Submarine
By Vladimir Brezina
A friend brought us flowers.
But flowers are not just flowers—they are a photo-op!
By Vladimir Brezina
He may be smiling sweetly
but he’s still sizing you up as prey
(still working on those Australia photos!)
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Intense.
Posted in Nature, Photography, Travel
Tagged Australia, Crocodile, Intense, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
... 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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