By Vladimir Brezina
We are about to be hit by one of the Forces of Nature…
(In the Florida Everglades—story and more photos are here.)
A second contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Forces of Nature. The first contribution was here.
By Vladimir Brezina
We are about to be hit by one of the Forces of Nature…
(In the Florida Everglades—story and more photos are here.)
A second contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Forces of Nature. The first contribution was here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Clouds, Everglades Challenge, Florida Kayaking, Forces of Nature, Kayaking, Photography, postaday, postaweek2015, Storm, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Express yourself!… especially if there are photographers around.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Express Yourself.
Posted in Photography
Tagged Central Park, Express Yourself, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Photoshoot, postaday, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
On A Word In Your Ear , Skinnywench’s photo challenge this week is Cloud. Since I have so many photos of clouds—it’s hard to avoid clouds, just as it is hard to avoid water, in kayaking photos—I thought I would join in.
But, although I have many photos of clouds, the clouds of two special days stand out particularly in my memory. On those days, a dramatic, constantly changing cloudscape dominated the scene. We stared upward, mesmerized.
Here’s the first of those days.
The story of the day is here, more photos are here, and larger versions of some of the photos are here. And the second of the two spectacularly Cloudy days is here.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Resolved.
Cape Cod Bay, July 2011. We are Resolved!
Resolved to reach the water, no matter how long it may take
and to set out over the turquoise sea
to “fresh woods, and pastures new.”
And that makes a fine resolution for this New Year as well!
(The story of that day on Cape Cod Bay is here; more photos are here.)
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Multiples.
I seem to recall that it was Couples just a few short weeks ago. And now it’s Multiples already? To be sure, it’s quite natural—
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Birds, Multiples, Nature, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is New.
The leaves of the old year blaze forth in a last burst of color. But among the old, at first almost unnoticed, are already the buds
that, as the last old leaf drops away, await the new year!
(Magnolias, Central Park, New York City)
Happy 2013!
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Buds, Fall Leaves, Magnolia, New, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The last weekly Photo Challenge of 2012 is—My 2012 in Pictures!
It’s been impossible to select the best photos. There are just too many photos to look through—I’ve posted more than 2,000 on this blog in 2012—and it takes more resolution than I am capable of at the moment to cull them severely. It’s like killing your children…
So here are, by no means the best photos of 2012, but just 12—one for each month—that in future years may remind Johna and me of some of the memorable stories of 2012—
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The stories and more photos are here:
We hope that 2013 will turn out to be equally memorable and picturesque!
Posted in Photography
Tagged 2012, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This morning we passed the Solstice of December 21, 2012, otherwise known as 13.0.0.0.0, and we can be cautiously optimistic—I am, on the whole, an optimist—that the world as we know it will continue…
So it seems safe to wish everyone a Happy Winter (or Summer, as it may be) and Festive Holidays!
And safe to respond to Ailsa’s photo challenge, which this week, very appropriately, is Festive—
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Festive, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Solstice, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Surprise.
Kayaking around New York Harbor, we see many surprising things. And one of the most surprising, hidden in a narrow Brooklyn creek, is the wreck of an entire, respectably-sized submarine. The Yellow Submarine of Brooklyn has a fascinating history—involving a crazy but surprisingly well-developed scheme to salvage valuables from a famous sunken ocean liner—that I’ve already written up here and here. So I’ll just post a few photos—
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Submarine, Surprise, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow Submarine
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Transportation.
It’s amazing how much stuff can be transported in a sea kayak! When setting out on a kayak expedition, there’s no need to leave the creature comforts at home. Compared to a multiday backpacking or bicycle trip, a sea kayak expedition is a positively luxurious experience
… until each morning, when all that stuff has to be fitted back into the kayaks
We put off the packing as long as we possibly can and stand around drinking coffee
It’s such a relief to have the last bag in the boat, to snap on the sprayskirt and push off into new waters…
(Photos from our 2011 Albany to New York trip and our 2012 Long Island circumnavigation)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayak Camping, Kayak Expeditions, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea Kayaking, Transportation, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge