By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Distorted.
Sometimes it’s the smoothest mirror that gives the most distorted picture…
Other nice interpretations that I’ve seen:
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina
... 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.Johna Till Johnson
... 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.Recent Comments
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Ooooh I love this. That water makes me want to dive right in. Where were you?
That was last July in Cape Cod Bay, on the north shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. We started in East Brewster and paddled north past Wellfleet, then back. Cape Cod Bay is very shallow and the water was lovely and warm. There were turquoise shallows, sparkling sandy beaches, dozens of seals lazing about… paradise! (More photos are here.)
Oh my, paradise is right. That looks like my version of heaven!!! Thanks for sharing.
Isn’t water wonderful, Vladimir?
~Anne
Why do you think we go kayaking? :-)
Great photo for distorted.
Thanks… love yours as well (and your other photos)
great shot…very cool
Thanks!
Fantastic!
Have checked out yours—beautiful and intriguing!
Great photo. I love the fact that your head is both upside down and the right way up in the reflection. The strong blue and yellow help show the distortion that the water makes too.
I have accumulated quite a few photos of Johna kayaking and many of them show such distorted reflections… but this one is the most interestingly bizarre :-)
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Gorgeous! …and a great choice for “distorted”! :)
Beautiful shot, love the reflections in the water!
Yes, you on the water. Good shot.
water is a flexible mirror :-)
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Cool…
Awesome photo! :D
nice…!! brilliant idea to reflect “distorted”
Thanks! “Reflect”? I like your choice of words! :-)
“Sometimes it’s the smoothest mirror that gives the most distorted picture…”
Great quote. I love the reflection! Thanks for the publicity too!
You’re welcome! I really liked your version!
Thanks, everybody, for your comments and your enthusiasm!
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Love the crab swimming in turquoise water.
~Anne
You mean this?
Another case of Distortion… :-)
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Thanks for the link, Anne!
Wonderful photo, great mirror image, even with the “distortion”
I can’t resist mirror image shots like this, and I’ve accumulated quite a few of them. (For some reason, most of them show Johna… :-)) Occasionally the water is perfectly flat, producing a perfect, unbroken mirror image. That’s nice to see too. But it’s more interesting when some undulation in the water breaks up and multiplies the image, as here. It’s actually the subtle undulations of otherwise smooth water that have the most impact; larger wind-driven ripples and waves destroy the clarity of the reflected image.
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Great take on distortion. The reflected face that’s the right way up looks like it’s sporting a different facial expression!
A distorted expression? ;-)
I stand corrected :D
Not at all! Thanks for your comment!!
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amazing photo! one could watch water for hours, sometimes…
Well, we do ;-) And it’s true, you cannot kayak twice on the same river…
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