By Vladimir Brezina
The first dropped ice cream of Spring on Fifth Avenue—
In response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Spring!, and Ailsa’s travel theme, Close-up. The first response was here.
By Vladimir Brezina
The first dropped ice cream of Spring on Fifth Avenue—
In response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Spring!, and Ailsa’s travel theme, Close-up. The first response was here.
Posted in Photography
Tagged Close-up, Ice Cream, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Spring, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Spring! (a little behind the curve as far as Wind Against Current is concerned: see here and here), and Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge is Close-up.
In our patch of Central Park, we know Spring has surely arrived when we notice the first insects flitting from flower to flower—
These photos are from mid-March of 2012—an early Spring that year! This year, the crocuses have long gone, and we haven’t seen any insects yet…
Another Spring Close-up is here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Close-up, Insects, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Spring, Spring Blossoms, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
The Columbia “C” is not the only letter in the harbor—
The Bronx River, New York City. More photos from the trip are here.
Posted in response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Letters.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Bronx River, Graffiti, Kayaking, Letters, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Letters.
Now there‘s a letter than makes sure it will be seen—
The Columbia “C”, Spuyten Duyvil, New York City.
And this is not the only letter that we encounter kayaking through the harbor…
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Columbia C, Kayaking, Letters, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Spuyten Duyvil, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Glow.
Backlighting makes things glow…
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Glow, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
What good is a roof if you don’t go up there now and again to watch the sunset over the city?
And as it happens, On Top was this week’s Photo Challenge…
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged New York City, On Top, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Round.
Round or square—which do you think will last longer through the coming storms?
There’s a reason why most lighthouses are round.
On the other hand, Old Orchard Shoal Light, a round lighthouse similar to Romer Shoal Light and just a few miles away from it in New York Harbor, was swept away by Hurricane Sandy.
And the square keeper’s house of Execution Rocks Light, which survived Sandy just fine, is being converted to a Bed & Breakfast, which will probably ensure it a long life…
Posted in Architecture, Photography
Tagged Lighthouse, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Round, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is On Top.
At the Dry Salvages, off the coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, it’s not just birds
but other creatures, too, that like to be on top…
Other birds on top were here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Animals, On Top, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Seal, The Dry Salvages, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is On Top.
There’s a law in Florida that every post must have on top of it a pelican.
More creatures on top are here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Florida, On Top, Pelican, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Monument.
… there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.
He had a point there. It certainly applies to Eiffel’s own Tower; in fact I believe that was his answer to those who questioned why his tower had to be so big. And it applies to Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, which would be an unremarkable sculpture if it weren’t for its monumental scale—
And here are some other monumental sculptures, beautifully scattered in a monumental landscape of hills, forests, and fields, in the Storm King Art Center, about an hour’s drive north of New York City—
We found ourselves there, almost accidentally, in late November 2012. The raw strength of the sculptures fit well into the bare landscape. But no doubt the sculptures will also complement, in a different way, the fresh green leaves that will soon cover the trees all around them. We’ll have to go back this Spring…
Of course, the monumental scale can also be misapplied—
Posted in Art, Photography
Tagged Monument, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sculpture, Storm King Art Center, Weekly Photo Challenge