By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Down. “We spend a lot of time looking ahead, looking from left to right before we cross the street, looking into the sky for Superman, but not a lot of time looking down. What do you see?”
As it happens, Johna recently posted some thoughts on that theme, and I added a few photos that could serve again here…
But what first popped into my head just now was quite a different sense of “Down”.
So here is “Down” in both senses!
... has kayaked the waters around New York for over a decade in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He comes originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and has lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He is a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
... 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.
They are cute.
I’ll have to go read Johna’s thoughts on down. I thought with you all being avid kayakers, you would have a picture of the sea water. That is something that I hadn’t expected when my husband got me into sea kayaking. I was amazed how much time I spent looking down at the creatures swimming below me.
Still, baby ducks kind of beat that out any day. :)
You know, “looking down into the water” never occurred to me as I was thinking about this theme :-) Possibly that’s because in New York City waterways, especially in the very muddy Hudson, underwater visibility is usually no more than a few inches…
Ah. I hadn’t thought of that.We are in northern California – cold water, but clear.
beautiful :)
Thanks! Your photos too—I just took a look at them…
That’s the cutest down … I love ducks and waterfowl..
I see that on your blog :-)
a very different perspective, thanks MJ
So cute!
They look so vulnerable, but still so cute!
Very cute :) great entry for this weeks theme :)
Brilliant. I just posted a bird pic too for the weekly photo challenge. We think alike!
Our comments crossed paths! :-)
Haha, just got yours. x
It’s the insomniacs at work…
love it
:)
So cute!
nice photos
http://amarnaik.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/weekly-photo-challenge-down/
Thanks to everyone for these comments! The overwhelming concensus seems to be “cute” ;-)
Beautiful post. Nice pictures.
Thanks, Arindam!