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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

Posted on March 21, 2014 by | 90 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Reflections. Perfect! As a photographer, I am irresistibly drawn to reflections of all kinds…

Two-fold reflection—

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Endless reflection—

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Deep reflection—

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Distorted reflection—

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Glassy reflection—

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Travel Theme: Pink

Posted on March 21, 2014 by | 39 comments

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.

Pink in Winter

But very soon now, it will grow on every tree—

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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.

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Spring, Finally, Perhaps…

Posted on March 20, 2014 by | 34 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

The Spring Equinox occurs today.

This year, Spring has been a long time in coming. In NYC, the weather is still very chilly. But there are signs that Winter is now, finally, perhaps, on its way out…

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So, Happy Spring! (Or, to our readers in the Southern Hemisphere, Happy Autumn!)

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Posted on March 14, 2014 by | 56 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Inside.

Inside our home away from home, pitched on the tiny Magic Key in Estero Bay, FL, we catch a few hours’ sleep before another night of paddling during the 2014 WaterTribe Everglades Challenge…

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Inside

More photos from the Everglades Challenge are here.

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Travel Theme: Tempting

Posted on March 12, 2014 by | 18 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Tempting.

Paddling down the Intracoastal Waterway near Sarasota, FL, during the first of our Everglades Shakedown paddles back in April 2013, we succumbed to the temptation of ice cream.

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Perhaps this explained why we moved so slowly during that trip! So, during the Everglades Challenge itself, we removed all such temptation by paddling “outside”, through the Gulf.

And in a single day we traveled the distance that had previously taken us four days.

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Everglades Shakedown, Day 6: Headwinds and Homelessness

Posted on February 25, 2014 by | 60 comments

By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina

<— Previous in Everglades Shakedown

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Start: Little Rabbit Key.
Finish: Sunset Point Park, Key Largo.
Distance: About 24 nauticalmiles.
Paddling time: Roughly 11 hours; average pace 2.2 knots.

Continue reading →

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Finally, Liquid Water!

Posted on February 23, 2014 by | 71 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

We’ve been ice-bound for the last month. No paddling—and we were beginning to feel it! But this weekend, finally, winter seems to have released its grip.

Here are a few photos from Saturday’s Manhattan circumnavigation (click on any photo to start slideshow):

From Pier 40, we paddle down to the Battery
Past North Cove
… with its reflecting surfaces
It’s a breezy day
We wait for the Staten Island ferry to leave
Here it goes!
We paddle past
… into the East River
Under the Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges
Just here, we always turn around to look back
… at the classic view
Under the Williamsburg Bridge
Past the well-known red buoy in the East River
Midtown Manhattan
The ConEdison power plant in the sun
We continue up the Queens-side channel past Roosevelt Island
A Queens classic
A graceful apparition
Under the Queensboro Bridge
… with the sun at our backs
Toward the power plant
Colorful industrial
“Long Island”, the barge, is always there
Three stacks
Under the Roosevelt Island Bridge
We raft up for tea in the shelter of our favorite barge off Randalls Island
… then we continue under the Triborough (now RFK) Bridge
… up the Harlem River
The renovated Willis Avenue Bridge
Late afternoon sunshine
Golden rays
… follow us under
Macombs Dam Bridge
Geese make their unhappiness heard as we pass
The three mid-Harlem bridges
A few last rays light up the high points
University Heights Bridge
Lavender and blue dusk
Almost our of the Harlem! We pass under the Henry Hudson Bridge
… to the Amtrak bridge
… and under it out into the Hudson
The afterglow of the sunset is still in the sky
We approach the George Washington Bridge
… with the lights of Midtown Manhattan coming into view
A necklace of lights

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes

Posted on February 21, 2014 by | 89 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Threes:

“A three-picture story is a way to help you think about storytelling with images. To create a three-picture story, gather:

  1. An establishing shot: a broad photo of your subject.
  2. A relationship: two elements interacting with one another.
  3. A detail: a close-up of one part of your subject.”

Yes, I think I should be able to do that…

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More photos of Florida pelicans are here and here.

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Travel Theme: Work

Posted on February 21, 2014 by | 27 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Work.

Work is done upon an object when a force displaces it through a distance—

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—and nowadays, when everything works as it should, gigantic amounts of work continue to be done even when the workers take, for a few moments at least, a break from work—

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From a Hidden Harbor Tour through New York Harbor in September 2013. Story and more photos are here.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure

Posted on February 18, 2014 by | 36 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Treasure.

On an extended paddling trip, quite ordinary things become treasures!

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From our Florida paddle in April 2013, our kayak-camping trip to the Hudson River Islands State Park in October 2013, and our Long Island circumnavigation in June-July 2012, respectively.

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