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
By Vladimir Brezina
I always think that this next one would make a perfect Ayn Rand book cover…
More New York City scenes are here.
By Vladimir Brezina
That first glimpse of the sea instantly shows what the day will be like. The sea sets the mood.
That day at the beach may be just an ordinary Sunday at the seaside
or it may be stormy
or dreamy…
Posted in Nature
Tagged Amelia Island, Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Norfolk, Photography, Seashore, Seaside, Storm, Sunrise
By Vladimir Brezina
Yesterday I got up early to go kayaking with NYC Swim‘s Ederle Swim. It was dark and cold. Why do these swims always begin so early? (Don’t tell me: time and tide wait for no man…)
But there was an unexpected bonus: a prime view of a spectacular dawn and sunrise over New York Harbor, from the motorboat that transported us from Manhattan to Sandy Hook, NJ, for the start of the swim. A few photos:
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Dawn, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, Sunrise
... 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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