By Vladimir Brezina
Summer is past, and it’s time for a change—
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Change.
By Vladimir Brezina
Summer is past, and it’s time for a change—
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Change.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Change, Fall Colors, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Another oldie but goodie… The red leaf conforms to the Rule of Thirds, and there is some colorful bokeh in the background—as requested by this week’s Photo Challenge, Rule of Thirds.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Fall Colors, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Rule of Thirds, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Minimalist, and Ailsa’s recent travel-themed photo challenge, Autumn.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Abstract, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, Fall Colors, Minimalist, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Fall 2013 in NYC’s Central Park. A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Bountiful. Another “Bountiful” contribution is here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Bountiful, Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
… Fall is definitely on its way.
(Click on any photo to start slideshow. In Manhattan’s Central Park, September 27, 2014.)
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Autumn, Central Park, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
The Fall Equinox occurs this evening. So, although we very much regret, especially this year, Summer’s passing—Happy Fall, everyone! (Well, everyone in the northern hemisphere… for the others, Happy Spring!)
By Johna Till Johnson
Fall is arriving early this year.
Last weekend I was up in coastal Connecticut helping my mother settle into a new apartment. The retirement community where she lives is lovely, surrounded by hills, trees, and not-too-manicured fields of wildflowers. And on this mid-September day, with still more than a week to go before autumn officially starts… the trees are turning.
Fortunately I had several errands that involved walking around the community in the golden afternoon sunshine. I took as many photos as I could to capture the essence of the day: Brilliant blue skies, sun-dappled trees, wildflowers dancing in the light breeze.
Nobody knows what the winter will bring. But if autumn continues the way it’s begun… it will be beautiful!
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
As the season descends into Winter, we figured it would be good to post a long-overdue writeup of a trip that we took during the magical boundary between Summer and Autumn—a trip up the Hudson River in October 2013.
In mathematics, a boundary condition is a constraint imposed on the solution of an equation. By imposing boundary conditions, you focus on a specific subset of solutions, rather than all solutions.
In ecology, there’s also the concept of a boundary—in this case, the transition from one habitat to another. Boundary conditions are then conditions at the habitat boundary. And as a tidal estuary, the lower Hudson River itself is a permanent habitat boundary, since it’s the interface between salt water and fresh, between the ocean and the rivers and streams that feed it.
The two meanings are different, but what they have in common is the notion of focusing on a particular part of the cosmos, one embodying flux, change, and intermingling of diverse forces.
That’s what we did one day this Fall when we drove north for an extended weekend of kayak-camping on the Hudson River, at our favorite spot, the Hudson River Islands State Park, about 20 miles south of Albany.
For this excursion, we’d joined forces with Alex and Jean, fellow paddlers and fellow bloggers at 2Geeks@3Knots, who drove up from New Rochelle. And we were hoping to meet up with Mike and Julie, paddlers from Albany with whom we’d shared a lively correspondence over the past year but had never met. And also, with luck, with our friend David, who lives both in NYC and upstate, and was planning to be on the river up there that weekend.
All of us from different habitats, in other words, but with our common boundary—the Hudson River.
Posted in Kayaking
Tagged Autumn, Fall, Fall Colors, Hudson River, Hudson River Islands State Park, Kayak Camping, Kayaking, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
Yesterday afternoon in New York City’s Central Park (click on any photo to start slideshow)—
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography