By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge for this week is Texture.
No color… just texture!
Belize, 2010.
A second take on “Texture” is here.
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge for this week is Texture.
No color… just texture!
Belize, 2010.
A second take on “Texture” is here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, Iguana, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Texture, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Near and Far.
I’ve already posted one response to this challenge—three of my annual photos of a round-Manhattan swimmer next to my kayak with the Empire State Building in the distance.
A similar photo-op occurs in our kayaking trips through New York Harbor. We often paddle from Manhattan down to the Lower Bay for the day. As we return in the evening, we pass through the Verrazano Narrows and turn the corner into the Upper Bay. And there suddenly, across the entire Upper Bay, we see the ramparts of Manhattan in the evening sun. They are imposing, but still far, far away…
Swimmers, too, get to see that sight sometimes…
For more on “Paddling to Manhattan Island”, see here; for more on swimming there, see here and here.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Near and Far.
Every year I accompany in my kayak the swimmers that circle Manhattan in the annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. During this 7- or 8-hour-long race, I have plenty of opportunity to pair in my photos the swimmer in the foreground, just a few feet from my kayak, with various New York City landmarks in the distance.
And there is a particular spot in the Hudson River, with just a few miles left to go, where the landmark is the Empire State Building. I never fail to take a photo there! Here are the photos from three different years.
More photos are here, here, and here.
A second response to the challenge is here.
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge this week is Red.
But I’ve already used my reddest photo for the recent Capture the Colour contest!
Still, there’s plenty of red to be seen as we kayak around New York Harbor… and not just because the bow of my kayak is red!
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Colors, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Red, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Free Spirit.
A frigate bird soaring above the palms at sunset…
Belize, 2010. More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Belize, Birds, Frigate Bird, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Photography, Travel
Tagged City, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Snow Storm, Urban, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge for this week is Silhouette.
She says: “It fascinates me how a silhouette; a two-dimensional outline of a person or object, can suggest a story just as clearly as if you could see the scene in its entirety. Perhaps it makes our imagination work overtime, trying to fill in the details we cannot see.”
Indeed…
Belize, 2010. More photos are here.
Posted in Photography, Sports, Travel
Tagged Belize, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Silhouette, Stand Up Paddle Board, Sunrise, Surfing, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa‘s Travel-Themed Photo Challenge this week is Sunset.
I must have hundreds of sunset photos, since, with camera in hand, a spectacular show at sunset is hard to resist… Which to choose? Here are a few of the memorable sunsets over the years.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sunset, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Merge. I’ve already posted one interpretation, but here’s another one.
One some days, you don’t know where the sea ends and the sky begins…
More photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Merge, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge