By Vladimir Brezina
I’ve already posted one response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Summer. Here is another.
Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize, with Slickrock Adventures. OK, it was in March, but there it’s always summer!
More photos are here.
By Vladimir Brezina
I’ve already posted one response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Summer. Here is another.
Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize, with Slickrock Adventures. OK, it was in March, but there it’s always summer!
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, Photography, Sports, Travel
Tagged Belize, Glover, Glover's Reef Atoll, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Sea, Slickrock Adventures, Stand Up Paddle Board, Summer, Sunrise, Surfing, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Summer.
As it happens, I’ve already posted a couple of summery posts just this week, here and here. But here is another take on Summer.
Cromer, Norfolk, England.
More photos are here.
And my second response to this challenge is here.
Posted in Nature, Photography, Travel
Tagged England, Norfolk, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Seaside, Summer, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Update, May 25, 2012: A week later, it turns out that the theme of the official Photo Challenge is also Summer. Ailsa and Sara should really coordinate a bit better! On the other hand, I have my entry all ready:
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Ailsa of Where’s my backpack?, who stepped into the breach and organized last week’s wildly successful Alternative Photo Challenge on the theme of “Reflections”—and then found the time to look at the hundreds of photos and answer the hundreds of comments that flooded in—wants to do it again!
This time she’s proposed a theme that combines her love of travel and that of the summer now upon us, at least those of us in the northern hemisphere…
As soon as I saw her double theme, I knew I had just the photos for her! I offer you… the English summer holiday at the seaside!
Please, let’s have no indignant defenses of the English summer. I know what I am talking about!
(Or, if you must, do first review the categories that this post is listed under…)
More photos are here.
Posted in Humor, Photography, Travel
Tagged England, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Seaside, Summer, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Hands.
It’s all about the hands! (Well, and a few other body parts…) Here’s Joe the Guide (guess which one he is) showing a bunch of newbies the proper forward stroke.
It’s amazing how expressive the hands are, and how much we are drawn to look to them for clues—especially after we’ve cut off the heads!
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Hands, Kayaking, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The Daily Post‘s Weekly Photo Challenge is usually posted on Fridays. It’s now mid-day Monday… Over the weekend, I, and many other people who have been trained to eagerly anticipate the challenge, were almost giving up. In fact, to fill the absence, on Saturday night Ailsa on her blog Where’s my backpack? proposed her own alternative challenge on the theme of “Reflections“, and has been getting a very lively response indeed. My two “Reflections” posts are here and here.
Still, better late than never! This week’s official Photo Challenge is finally here, and it is Blue.
… And immediately
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
Philip Larkin, High Windows
That’s it: Blue means opening up, spaces without limits, endless possibilities…
Actually, some of the photos from my “Reflections” posts, here and here, would also have fit the theme very well…
Posted in Literature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Blue, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Poetry, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
OK, I can’t resist having another go at Ailsa‘s Alternative Photo Challenge on the theme of “Reflections“…
More photos from these places, along the Hudson River and in Long Island Sound, are here, here, and here.
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Some other nice “Reflections” posts:
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Hudson River, Kayaking, Long Island Sound, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Reflections, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
WordPress has not yet posted a theme for this week’s Photo Challenge… So photo-bloggers addicted to a regular weekly Challenge have impatiently begun taking matters into their own hands. Over at her blog Where’s my backpack?, Ailsa has proposed a Photo Challenge of her own, which everyone is invited to join, with the theme of “Reflections“.
“Reflections” is a perfect theme for me. Kayaking, or just walking around after the rain as Ailsa did, inverted reflections in water are everywhere, often more intriguing and mysterious than the scenes reflected. I’ve already posted some of these water reflections here and here and here and here and here…
But “Reflections” also brings to mind our recent visit to the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan. The surfaces of the memorial, and the glass walls of the towers now rising all around, are full of reverberating reflections: of each other, of the clouds, of the visitors, of memories…
More photos are here.
And my second take on “Reflections” is here.
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:
Posted in Nature, Photography
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