By Vladimir Brezina
The new World Trade Center tower can be seen for miles out at sea, and at night it becomes a luminous beacon to guide sailors, and kayakers, in—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Luminous.
By Vladimir Brezina
The new World Trade Center tower can be seen for miles out at sea, and at night it becomes a luminous beacon to guide sailors, and kayakers, in—
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Luminous.
By Vladimir Brezina
… where the towers of the old World Trade Center used to be.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Monochromatic.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Manhattan, Monochromatic, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Urban, Weekly Photo Challenge, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
Gone…
… but not forgotten.
But memories are not enough—the new Tower has risen!
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Gone, But Not Forgotten.
By Vladimir Brezina
The Twin Towers, as they were.
All of these photos were taken in 2000 or earlier.
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 13 years…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged 9/11, Kayaking, Manhattan, New York City, New York Harbor, Twin Towers, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
Photos taken on yesterday’s Hidden Harbor Tour organized by the Working Harbor Committee. Many more photos to come!
Posted in New York City
Tagged 9/11, New York City, Photography, Tribute in Light, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Couples.
Ah, the romance of shared travel by kayak! And what better to ensure that shared togetherness than a double kayak?
Soon arguments break out, and loud words carry over the water, to the secret amusement of other paddlers.
“Shouldn’t you be steering more to the left?”
“I know where I am going!”
“I thought we agreed to stop on that beach over there!?”
The couple have trouble paddling at the same rate and synchronizing their strokes…
and both feel that they are doing all the work
until they both just put down their paddles in frustration
No wonder double kayaks are known as “divorce boats”!
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The last photo features another prominent couple in the background. And a couple of other “Couples” are here and here…
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged Couples, Double Kayak, Kayaking, New York City, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Weekly Photo Challenge, World Trade Center
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 Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
It was the posters that finally made it real.
Everyone has a 9/11 story. Mine isn’t all that exceptional. I was in Midtown Manhattan that morning, preparing for a sales trip to New Jersey. I’d been awake since about 2 AM, working on a project for work.
When the sirens first started, I didn’t think much of it. At least at first. But they kept going… and going… and going. Finally I looked out of the window and saw the column of smoke rising into the clear pale-blue air—and realized something serious was going on.
Then I turned on the TV and saw what everyone else did: the smoke, the helicopters, the collapse of the towers one by one.
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Life, New York City, Society
Tagged 9/11, 9/11 Memorial, American History, Manhattan, Memoir, New York City, Photography, World Trade Center
By Vladimir Brezina
“The … most prominent landmarks, which can be seen for a long distance at sea, are the twin towers of the World Trade Center …”
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The individual photos are here.
Posted in Kayaking, New York City
Tagged 9/11, Kayaking, New York City, New York Harbor, Twin Towers, World Trade Center