By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Reflections.
Once again, Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? was ahead of the curve with this theme, and I already posted a couple of posts full of reflections, here and here, in response to her challenge back in May. Still, here are some more Reflections…
But the mirror doesn’t always reflect faithfully…
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Reflections, 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
Winds and waves are all very well 
, but some of the most magic moments in a kayak on the open sea come when the wind dies down completely and the calm sea joins with the sky…
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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