By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Unfocused.
Returning home after a few drinks, it’s sometimes hard to get the eyes to focus.
Supposedly, it was in such a state that Li Po died trying to embrace the reflection of the moon in the water…
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Moonlight, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Unfocused, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Together.
And even though I’ve posted them already, not too long ago, I just have to use these—
The full series of photos is here.
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Other nice “Together” interpretations:
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Tagged Birds, Pelicans, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Together, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Sun. I’ve already posted one response, but here’s another one.
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
But you never see the same sun twice…
Two successive sunrises at Amelia Island, Florida. More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Amelia Island, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sun, Sunrise, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Sun.
Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
Philip Larkin, Solar
(Cape Cod Bay, July 2011; more photos are here)
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My second interpretation of “Sun” is here.
Other nice “Sun” posts:
Posted in Literature, Nature, Photography
Tagged Cape Cod, Philip Larkin, Photography, Poetry, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sun, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Two Subjects. I’ve already posted one response to this challenge, but I can’t resist having another go.
A few days ago we had occasion to take the Circle Line boat ride around Manhattan. The boat was packed. I came ready with my camera. But I couldn’t decide whether to focus (figuratively as well as literally) on the magnificent sights of the city coming into view one after another, or on the activities of other passengers. They, too, were snapping photos of the sights but even more of each other…
You just know what is to the left of the frame in the next photo, don’t you?
That’s right—the money shot!
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Boat Cruise, Circle Line, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Two Subjects, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Two Subjects.
Irresistible force meets immovable object!
Two of my favorite subjects, the ocean and the city, come head to head: huge storm surf batters San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March 2008.
More photos as here.
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My second interpretation of “Two Subjects” is here.
Other nice “Two Subjects” posts:
Posted in Photography, Travel
Tagged Ocean, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Puerto Rico, Storm Surf, Two Subjects, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Journey.
At dawn, some leave on their journey…
… just as others arrive from theirs
More photos from that day are here.
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Other nice Journeys:
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Dawn, Journey, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Arranged: “… find something in your environment which was arranged by a human hand …”
Hmmm…. how about a human hand arranged?
Posted in Art, Culture, Photography
Tagged Arranged, Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Street Decorations, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Through.
Crowds of photographers gather as the magic moment draws near. What are they waiting for?
It’s Manhattanhenge! On two days in the year, for a brief moment before it sinks below the horizon, the setting sun is perfectly aligned with the cross-streets of Manhattan’s rectangular street grid and sends its last golden rays straight through its canyons…
These photos are from the first occurrence of Manhattanhenge last year, on May 30, 2011. More photos are here and here.
This year’s magic days will be May 29 and July 12!
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Some other nice interpretations of “Through” I’ve seen:
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Manhattan, Manhattanhenge, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sunset, Through, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Unusual.
Even for jaded New Yorkers, this picnic in the park was perhaps just a bit unusual…
(Click on the photo to enlarge)
Update March 18, 2012:
OK, I confess. This wasn’t quite an ordinary picnic in the park, even a New York City park…
It was a performance piece called Imaginary Picnic by the Push Pops that we saw at last year’s Figment NYC, a two-day art festival held in June on Governors Island in New York Harbor. We wrote about our visit here, and more photos—some of them likewise a bit unusual!—are here.
Unfortunately, it rained pretty steadily the whole day of our visit. Consequently the Imaginary Picnic was a bit wilted. But its full glory can be seen here:
To see, and photograph, more unusual scenes, visit this year’s Figment! Figment NYC 2012 will be held, again on Governors Island, on June 9-10. We’ll see you there!
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Some other nice interpretations of “Unusual” that I’ve seen:
Posted in Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Unusual, 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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