By Vladimir Brezina
After seven days on the water, the finish of our big kayak trip is still some way off over the horizon, but we’re suddenly sure that we’ll make it today. What could go wrong now? ;-)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Jubilant.
By Vladimir Brezina
Another item of marine art that can only be enjoyed by passing kayakers…
A contribution toward the Photo Challenge, Face.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Face, Marine Art, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Sure, there are the sunlit showy blossoms that everyone stops to admire—
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But deeper in the shadows, too, if you look closely, Spring is everywhere stirring to life.
And what’s this?
A A A scrap of bread stirs to life the pond’s inhabitants, both expected…
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… and unexpected
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature
Tagged Animals, Central Park, Dragonfly, Fern, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Spring, Turtle
By Vladimir Brezina
Paddling through the silver sea…
(2014 Watertribe Everglades Challenge, Florida)
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Dazzling.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Dazzling, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Sea Kayaking, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Tendrils of light and shadow…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Abstract.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Abstract, Grasses, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Tendrils, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Let’s eat before the rising tide submerges this sandbar, or the bugs bite us to death…
(During the 2014 Everglades Challenge, Florida.)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Dinnertime.
By Vladimir Brezina
Balance is easier with some support…
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Balance.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Balance, Hudson River, Kayak Strokes, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Sea Kayaking, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Future personified…
This was some years ago. What was then in the future is now far in the past…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Future.
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Future, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Pregnant, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Straight out of the Hudson River cooler! What could be more refreshing after the day’s paddle?
(Kayak camping at the Hudson River Islands State Park: see here and here.)
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Refreshing.
By Vladimir Brezina
Just as wild as the natural landscape
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is the urban landscape in which we live
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Landscape.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Landscape, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2016, Puerto Rico, Sunset, 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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