By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light!
Artificial lights are all very well, but they can’t compete with the real thing!
(Two more interpretations of “Let There Be Light!” are here and here.)
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light!
Artificial lights are all very well, but they can’t compete with the real thing!
(Two more interpretations of “Let There Be Light!” are here and here.)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Forest, Let There Be Light!, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sun, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Unexpected.
On our kayak trips through New England, we expect to see birds, seals, even whales…
But one day last May, as I was paddling through the desolate Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts, I rounded a rocky point and came face to face with this huge, shaggy, horned beast, lounging on the beach and looking at me with uncomfortable interest.
Unexpected, to say the least.
The story of that trip and more photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, Nature, Photography
Tagged Elizabeth Islands, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Unexpected, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Fragrant.
It’s not even Thanksgiving, but the first Christmas decorations have already made their appearance in NYC store windows, so it’s not too early for this post…
No plastic Christmas trees for us. We always have a real tree. Plastic trees can look pretty, but lack an essential element of Christmas—the fragrance of a real tree, especially when that fragrance is released by the heat of real candles…
More photos from Christmas 2011 are here, and from Christmas 2012 here. Looking forward to Christmas 2013!
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Tree, Christmas Tree Candles, Fragrant, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Short.
Compared to the Red Herring (a Feathercraft Heron kayak, 17′ 7″ long, on the right in the photo below), the Baby Vulcan (a Feathercraft K-Light kayak, on the left) is absurdly short for a sea kayak—only 12′ 10″.
It must have looked ridiculous when I paddled it, as I did for years.
But Johna finds it to be a fun boat around town
and quite capable of crossing the seas…
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Feathercraft, K-Light, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayak, Short, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged 9/11 Memorial, Layers, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Habit.
Gus the polar bear was one of the stars of Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo. New Yorkers took to him probably because, as a result of being cooped up in the equivalent of a tiny apartment, he was a creature of neurotic, not to say compulsive habits, such as obsessive swimming. But, like a true New Yorker, he managed to thrive on his neuroses—he outlived both his younger female companions, and finally died this past summer, aged 27 (which is quite old for a polar bear).
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park Zoo, Habit, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Polar Bear, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Connections.
And to travel by folding kayak, you do have to make a lot of connections…
… and maintain them in good working order!
For more, see here.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Connections, Folding Kayak, Kayak, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Art, New York City, Photography
Tagged Eerie, Halloween, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Street Decorations, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Delicate.
I wanted to come up with a Fall photo, but “Delicate” keeps suggesting Spring…
… and we do have readers in the southern hemisphere :-)
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Delicate, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Spring Blossoms, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Stone.
Kayaking along the glaciated shores of Long Island, Block Island, and Cape Cod, it’s hard to miss the many glacial erratic boulders that dot the shoreline. Some are cool green stones awash in the sea. Others, more exposed, are the favorite perches of cormorants and human fishermen…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)