Tag Archives: Travel

Travel Theme: Tilted

Posted on July 19, 2013 by | 21 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

Here’s a photo of me sailing my kayak through New York Harbor—that’s the Empire State Building in the distance—back in 2007. The camera, set to take a photo automatically every 10 minutes, was mounted on the outrigger arm, but evidently not very firmly: it started rotating round it, so that when I got home, I found I had photos tilted at all angles, even some upside down…

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More about my kayak sailing adventures can be found here, here, and here.

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Travel Theme: Simplicity

Posted on July 12, 2013 by | 46 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

A block of wood is very simple—

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Travel Theme: Motion

Posted on July 5, 2013 by | 19 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

In expectation of what will likely be a hot summer here in NYC, here’s some cool, refreshing beach motion from last year—

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On the Jersey Shore, August 2012.

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Travel Theme: Sculpture

Posted on June 28, 2013 by | 42 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

IMGP2678 cropped smallAilsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Sculpture.

Her own examples start with man-made sculptures, but conclude with her “favourite sculptures [that] come from the natural world… sculpted by wind… and water…”

Here is a sculpture that we came across recently that seems poised between the two worlds, being both man-made and sculpted by natural forces, wind, water, and sun…

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And in the morning…

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On North Captiva Island, Florida, during our kayak trip down the Gulf Coast of Florida in April (see here and here).

And speaking of beach sculptures, check out this one, courtesy of our friends 2 Geeks @ 3 Knots!

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Travel Theme: Ripples

Posted on June 21, 2013 by | 34 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Travel Theme: Flow

Posted on June 14, 2013 by | 48 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

No doubt you thought, us being kayakers and all, you would see in this post flowing water. But in New York City there’s plenty of flow on land…

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Skaters in Central Park.

Entering the subway

Descending into the subway.

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Travel Theme: Peaceful, Take Two

Posted on June 10, 2013 by | 28 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Peaceful. We’ve already posted one Peaceful photo here. Here are a few more.

A peaceful early morning during our recent kayak trip in Florida—

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Dawn by the Intracoastal Waterway near Venice, FL
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Peaceful reflections 3

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This was Day 4 of the trip—still to be written up…

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Travel Theme: Peaceful

Posted on June 9, 2013 by | 31 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Seen on our 2012 Long Island kayak circumnavigation.

And here is a second take on Peaceful.

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Travel Theme: Costume

Posted on May 31, 2013 by | 35 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

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Halloween 2011 and 2012 (more photos are here and here).

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Travel Theme: Pathways

Posted on May 24, 2013 by | 56 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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

On the beaches that we’ve visited over the years, we’ve discovered the pathways of all kinds of creatures…

What are these?

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