By Vladimir Brezina
On a Florida beach, different species stake out their respective territories with boundaries virtual—
or actual—
Still, invasion often occurs…
(Black skimmers on St. Pete Beach, Florida. Story and more photos here.)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Boundaries.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Beach, Birds, Black Skimmer, Boundaries, Florida, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Fire Island, NY. From our 2012 kayak circumnavigation of Long Island.
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Land meets Water.
By Vladimir Brezina
Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.And the great fleas, themselves, in turn
Have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still,
And greater still, and so on.
But, big or little, they are all overwhelmed by the incoming tide—
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Scale.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Beach, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Scale, Sea Shells, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
On a beautiful Sunday morning, Vlad went out to photograph chicks on the beach.
No… it’s not what you’re thinking!
We were staying at the Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida, where my company had just finished its annual conference. We tacked on a few days of vacation at the end.
And on the last day we heard about something unusual: a patch of beach where black skimmers (a kind of tern) were hatching their chicks. It was about a half-mile or so up the beach to the north, sandwiched right between hotels, roped off but otherwise out in the open, among the sunbathers and beach joggers.
So not too early on a Sunday morning, Vlad and I ventured out to see the skimmers and their chicks.
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Posted in Nature
Tagged Beach, Birds, Black Skimmer, Florida, Loews Don CeSar Hotel, Photography, St. Pete Beach
Tagged Beach, Florida, Loews Don CeSar Hotel, Photography, St. Pete Beach, Sunset
Posted in Nature
Tagged Beach, Birds, Black Skimmer, Florida, Photography, St. Pete Beach
By Vladimir Brezina
Different materials, but the same impulse. It’s a united country after all…
Tagged Beach, Florida, New York City, Photography, Sand Sculpture, Snow, Snowman
By Vladimir Brezina
From dawn to dusk…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Tagged Beach, Birds, Florida, Photography, St. Pete Beach, Sunrise, Sunset
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Motion.
In expectation of what will likely be a hot summer here in NYC, here’s some cool, refreshing beach motion from last year—
On the Jersey Shore, August 2012.
Posted in Photography, Sports
Tagged Beach, Motion, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Surf, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Sculpture.
Her own examples start with man-made sculptures, but conclude with her “favourite sculptures [that] come from the natural world… sculpted by wind… and water…”
Here is a sculpture that we came across recently that seems poised between the two worlds, being both man-made and sculpted by natural forces, wind, water, and sun…
And in the morning…
On North Captiva Island, Florida, during our kayak trip down the Gulf Coast of Florida in April (see here and here).
And speaking of beach sculptures, check out this one, courtesy of our friends 2 Geeks @ 3 Knots!
Posted in Art, Photography
Tagged Beach, Florida, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sculpture, 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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