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
We passed the September Equinox earlier today—and so, Happy Fall, everyone!
(Or of course, in the Southern hemisphere, Happy Spring!)
By Vladimir Brezina
Ah, the familiar first signs of Fall: the first crisp days and chilly nights, trees beginning to turn color here and there, migrating geese honking overhead…
And, of course, the Tugboat Race.
Every year on Labor Day Sunday, the Working Harbor Committee brings together, in the Hudson River off Midtown Manhattan, a collection of New York Harbor tugs—those that can spare a rare half-day off work—to engage in
various feats of tugboat strength: a race, nose-to-nose pushing contests, a line-throwing competition, and, for the kids as well as hyper-competitive tugboat captains, a spinach-eating contest.
We’ve attended the last three years, and written quite a bit about the occasion (in 2012, 2013, and 2014). So let’s go straight to the photos of this year’s event, the 23rd Annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition!
Posted in New York City, Science and Technology
Tagged Boats, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, Race, Ships, Tugboat, Tugboat Race
By Vladimir Brezina
Move!
No, you move!
In NYC, gridlock doesn’t just happen on land…
Scenes from this year’s Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition. Many more photos to come!
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Move.
Posted in New York City, Photography, Science and Technology
Tagged Boats, Move, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Ships, Travel, Tugboat, Tugboat Race, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
New York City architecture is ruled by rigid grids. But often the result is surprisingly fluid…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Grid.
Posted in Architecture, New York City, Photography
Tagged Grid, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
A routine paddle from Lower Manhattan up the Hudson—up the West Side of Manhattan, under the George Washington Bridge and along the Palisades—and back, about 30 miles. Nothing special.
But I do have a few photos…
By Vladimir Brezina
Acute angles, right angles, obtuse angles—angles as far as the eye can see:




Photos taken on a Hidden Harbor Tour, September 2013.
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Angles.
By Vladimir Brezina
… where the towers of the old World Trade Center used to be.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Monochromatic.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Manhattan, Monochromatic, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Urban, Weekly Photo Challenge, World Trade Center
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
The lively school of fish flashing by probably should have been a clue.
On our kayak trip several weeks ago, we decided to pay a visit to the Gowanus Canal. I know it seems crazy to paddle on a heavily-polluted Superfund site, but we both have a secret fondness for blasted industrial landscapes. And the canal also features charming, idiosyncratic quirks: festive murals, and a houseboat or two.
Or at least it did, upon our last visit. We hadn’t seen it since just before Superstorm Sandy. Then, the mood had been somber, filled with foreboding and a sense of upcoming loss. We feared what the storm would do to the places we’d come to love, Gowanus among them.
True to our fears, Sandy kept us off the water for months, and in the nearly three years since then, we didn’t make it back to Gowanus to see how it survived. So this trip was very much an exploration: How much had Sandy destroyed? And what was left?
Things had definitely changed, as it turned out—but not exactly in the way we expected.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Gowanus Canal, Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, Pollution