By Vladimir Brezina
What good is a roof if you don’t go up there now and again to watch the sunset over the city?
And as it happens, On Top was this week’s Photo Challenge…
By Vladimir Brezina
What good is a roof if you don’t go up there now and again to watch the sunset over the city?
And as it happens, On Top was this week’s Photo Challenge…
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged New York City, On Top, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The weather is finally getting warmer, and the days longer. Time for one of our favorite paddles!
In yesterday’s variant of the trip, we paddled up the East River, through Hell Gate, and past Throgs Neck out into Long Island Sound, just in time for lunch at Sugar and Spice on City Island. Then back down the East River to Hell Gate, up the Harlem River, and finally down the Hudson River home.
Here are a few photos…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged East River, Harlem River, Hudson River, Kayaking, Long Island Sound, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography
Posted in Nature
Tagged Central Park, Easter, Magnolia, New York City, Photography, Spring, Spring Blossoms
By Vladimir Brezina
We saw plenty of wildlife—dolphins, turtles, sharks, birds—last month in Florida. But no seals.
So yesterday we paddled down to Swinburne Island, where seals have never yet failed us, during the winter months. But spring is now, finally, upon us, with temperatures warming dramatically—time for the seals to return north, to their summer homes in Maine and Canada. We may have left it too late…
We paddled around Swinburne a couple of times, sat and scanned the water, waited expectantly… Nothing.
Then, just as we were about to leave, a lone seal head popped up.
The last seal of winter…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Seal, Swinburne Island
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Clean.
Many are incredulous that the waters around Manhattan are clean enough to swim in.
But it’s true.*
These are photos from the last three years of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, a world-class, 28.5-mile swim around Manhattan, organized by NYC Swim every June or July. (Stories and more photos are here, here, and here.) This year on June 14, June 28, and July 12!
*Of course, you should still probably get your shots first ;-)
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Street Life.
New York City: Descending into the subway—
Another, more leisurely response is here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Dusk, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Street Life, Subway, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Pink.
There’s one week in the year, coming up soon, when NYC’s parks are awash in pink. And looking further ahead, here’s another classic NYC event in which pink is surely the ruling color—
It’s the Coney Island Mermaid Parade! The story and photos from last year are here.
You can bet we’ll do our best to be there again this year! This year on Saturday, June 21st, at 1 PM.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Brooklyn, Coney Island, Mermaid Parade, New York City, Parade, Photography, Pink, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Pink.
In NYC’s Central Park not so long ago, pink was an artificial color.
But very soon now, it will grow on every tree—
These photos were taken in April 2013. Hopefully, a preview of coming attractions!
Another classic NYC event, later on in June, at which pink is surely the ruling color is here.
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, New York City, Photography, Pink, postaweek, postaweek2014, Snow, Spring, Spring Blossoms, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Snow, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
It’s almost the end of January, and we’re still looking up at that blank space on the wall where our 2014 calendar should be. But we aren’t going to buy one. Rather, like last year, we are going to make our own, selecting from Vlad’s photos those that seem to us to best capture the feeling of each month.
Now, finally, it’s done, and we’ve sent the calendar off to Shutterfly to be printed.
Here are the photos that we’ve selected:
(More photos are here)
Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!
Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me
Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged 2014, Calendar, Kayaking, Nature, New Year, New York City, Photography