By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Contrast.
And New York City is a city of contrasts, photographically and otherwise:
A couple of these photos are already elsewhere on this blog, but I do like them and they seem to fit well this week’s theme…
More New York Cityscapes are here.
Some other nice interpretations I’ve seen:
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Architecture, Contrast, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Fierce eagles on top of poles are a grand imperial convention
but in Florida every pole has on it a bird
that is not an eagle, but (usually) a pelican.
They perform, preen
or just sleep.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Distorted.
Sometimes it’s the smoothest mirror that gives the most distorted picture…
Other nice interpretations that I’ve seen:
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Distorted, Kayaking, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Performers: Two Brown Pelicans, Pelecanus occidentalis
(It’s nice to think that they were a male and a female. But it’s very hard to tell male and female pelicans apart by external appearance alone.)
Venue: A piling just off John’s Pass Boardwalk, Madeira Beach, Florida (near St. Petersburg, on the Gulf coast)
Date: February 23, 2012, as the sun set…
By Vladimir Brezina
Like everyone who travels often enough by airplane, I’ve seen breathtaking things from the plane’s window: towering cloud formations, lightning storms, the brilliant colors of sunrise and sunset, and the map-like pattern of land and water sliding into view below.
But until yesterday, I’ve never taken out my camera. Looking out through a misted, scratched window at a cramped angle not under my control, the photographic situation didn’t seem too promising.
Still, I’ve always been tempted in one case—when landing in New York City. When landing at LaGuardia Airport, especially, if the wind is right the plane flies along the length of Manhattan, offering spectacular low-altitude views of the city.
So yesterday, when it looked like we were following that flight path once again, I got out my camera. And I was not disappointed!
Posted in New York City, Photography, Travel
Tagged Air Flight, Airplane, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Indulge.
I think the photo says it all…
Other nice interpretations that I’ve seen:
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Indulge, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
To survive and to thrive in the big city, it sometimes seems that New York City’s wildlife has diversified to fill much the same niches as the city’s human inhabitants…
Some specialize in being decorative
Some are charming hustlers
Others still are quick small-time opportunists
The hustlers just won’t take no for an answer!
Many establish societies, in plain sight yet with their own secret rules, in the interstices of the city
But all come to watch the sunset along the river…
(All photos taken yesterday in Central and Riverside Parks, Manhattan.)
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Animals, Birds, Duck, Gull, New York City, Photography, Pigeon, Sparrow, Squirrel
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Down. “We spend a lot of time looking ahead, looking from left to right before we cross the street, looking into the sky for Superman, but not a lot of time looking down. What do you see?”
As it happens, Johna recently posted some thoughts on that theme, and I added a few photos that could serve again here…
But what first popped into my head just now was quite a different sense of “Down”.
So here is “Down” in both senses!
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Canada Geese, Down, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Regret.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth…
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Posted in Literature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Regret, Robert Frost, Weekly Photo Challenge, Woods
... 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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