By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Horizon.
Sunrise over open water…
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Tagged Horizon, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sunrise, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’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…
(click on any photo below to start slideshow)
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Tagged Animals, Brown, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Shells, The Hue of You, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Infinite.
On some days, we float in unbounded space…
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Tagged Infinite, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Deep.
You never know how deep it is until you wade in…
New York City, December 2010. More snow photos from that winter are here and here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Deep, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Snow, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
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…
… but from the air it is just a toy.
Here’s the southwestern tip of Staten Island…
… Gowanus Bay with the Loujaine
… and finally, the East River and its bridges!
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Tagged Air Flight, Airplane, Height, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Sea Kayaking, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
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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Tagged Good Morning!, Kayak Camping, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Or is it Saturated Relaxing?
In 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.
Full story is here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged New York City, Oktoberfest, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Relaxing, Saturated, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
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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Tagged Color, Fall Colors, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Saturated, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Relaxing.
On a paddling trip, we don’t paddle all the time…
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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Tagged Kayak Camping, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Relaxing, Sea Kayaking, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge