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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Horizon.

Sunrise over open water…

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Travel Theme: Brown

By Vladimir Brezina

DSC_0059%2520cropped%2520smallAilsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Brown.

I do like bright colors. So I thought this challenge would be difficult. But not at all. It turns out that many of the animals I have photographed over the years have preferred brown…

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is The Hue of You.

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The Jersey Shore, August 2012

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Infinite.

On some days, we float in unbounded space…

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Travel Theme: Deep

By Vladimir Brezina

IMGP1224 cropped small 2Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Deep.

You never know how deep it is until you wade in…

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New York City, December 2010. More snow photos from that winter are here and here.

Travel Theme: Height

By Vladimir Brezina

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

When returning to New York City by plane, I always try to sit in a window seat. And these days, I look not so much at the land below, but at the water. One of the great pleasures of landing in New York is recognizing from above all the waters where we kayak, the bays and islands that we now know so intimately.

From a kayak, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge appears gigantic—look how it dwarfs Fort Wadsworth to the right of it, itself a massive structure…

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, from a kayak

… but from the air it is just a toy.

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Here’s the southwestern tip of Staten Island…

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… Gowanus Bay with the Loujaine

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… and finally, the East River and its bridges!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Good Morning!

A very good morning—despite the marks of the previous day’s kayaking adventure!

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Relaxing Saturated

By Vladimir Brezina

Or is it Saturated Relaxing?

DSC_0616 cropped smallIn any case, The Daily Post‘s Photo Challenge this week is Saturated, and Ailsa’s on Where’s my backpack? is Relaxing.

And the two came together very nicely yesterday, on the first day of Oktoberfest in one of the few remaining beer gardens in NYC.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Saturated.

This theme is hard for me, paradoxically, because I like saturated color. So many of my photos would be right for this challenge. An embarrassment of riches.

But several photos come to mind that almost embody saturated color. How about this one?

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Travel Theme: Relaxing

By Vladimir Brezina

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

On a paddling trip, we don’t paddle all the time…

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Regarding the last two photos… we do seem to have a knack for finding, in the unlikeliest out-of-the-way spots, on tiny deserted islands, chairs.

We call them “dictator chairs”. We’ve probably all seen somewhere that iconic photo of the dictator—well, a would-be dictator at that stage—seated on a cheap plastic chair in his hideout in the jungle, flanked by menacing bodyguards with machine guns and mirrored sunglasses. (So as not to offend any dictators that might be following our blog, I’d better not show any particular photo of that kind here.) The first time we saw one of these chairs, on a little island, that was the image that came to mind. The white plastic chair gleamed in a sinister manner against the dark undergrowth. There was no dictator or bodyguards, but the chair was surrounded by a luxuriant growth of poisonous plants. And it did have a lovely view out over the water…

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