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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Delicate.

Flowers, of course… but also the way insects hold on to them, right way up or upside down, with a delicate touch…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Changing Seasons.

Looking through photos that I’ve taken in Central Park in the Spring, and in the Fall, I am momentarily confused. Which season is which?

In both, the leaves glow with color…

But the Spring leaves have fresh young faces

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whereas the Fall leaves have lived

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More photos from the Spring and Fall are, respectively, here and here.

Travel Theme: Circles

By Vladimir Brezina

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

Here are some natural circles.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections, Take Three

By Vladimir Brezina

Here’s a third response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Reflections. (Our first two responses were here and here.)

This was a particularly colorful, and reflective, sunset during our kayak circumnavigation of Long Island, NY, this past summer…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorting Reflections

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Reflections.

The mirror doesn’t always reflect faithfully…

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Two other “Reflections” posts are here and here.

Travel Theme: Hot

By Vladimir Brezina

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

Cooking can be hot work…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Reflections.

Once again, Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? was ahead of the curve with this theme, and I already posted a couple of posts full of reflections, here and here, in response to her challenge back in May. Still, here are some more Reflections…

But the mirror doesn’t always reflect faithfully

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Thankful.

A Thanksgiving meal to be thankful for, especially as Sandy reminded us that it could have been otherwise—

Travel Theme: Liquid

By Vladimir Brezina

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

Our favorite liquid, liquid:

Not liquid:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

This is a second post in response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Green. The first Green post was here.

On the second night of our kayak trip down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City in May 2011, we camped on the thickly wooded Magdalen Island. As the sunlight filtered through the fresh spring leaves, it was one of the Greenest sights I’ve ever seen…

The story and more photos are here and here.