By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Contrast.
And New York City is a city of contrasts, photographically and otherwise:
A couple of these photos are already elsewhere on this blog, but I do like them and they seem to fit well this week’s theme…
More New York Cityscapes are here.
Some other nice interpretations I’ve seen:
... 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.
Oh! I really like the second one. The blue “eyes” are wonderfully deceptive.
One of my favorites too!
:-) I guessed wrong, Vlad–thought you’d post the blue buildings you took from midtown in December….
There were many candidates, but those didn’t seem quite ‘contrasty’ enough…
I love the windows and bare trees
That second one is amazing! I love the reflection in the window! Thanks for sharing
Thanks, Robin and David! That one seems to be emerging as the clear favorite…
I love the last one!
One vote for the last one :-)
Beautiful shots :-)
Thank you!
Oooo! We’re going there in May & you have whetted our appetites brilliantly!
Welcome! In May it will look like this….
I love the second image too … with the two blue boxes! Clever.
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Very cool photos, both together and individually!
Thank you very much!
All good photos, but the shadows and composition of #2 make it my favorite.
Everyone likes that one!—as I do :-)
The blue in the windows really pops for me as well. Great photo.
That second snap is fabulous
Wonderful photos! I really like the one with blue windows,
EVERYONE likes the one with the blue windows! :-)
what wonderful photos. I especially like the feel of the two blue windows in an otherwise colourless wall. Your photos of NYC are stunning.
Thanks, Maggie!
Wow! Stunning photos. I love how you capture so much beauty in New York. It is showing this Aussie a whole other side to your city. All I’ve really seen of it is the Friends, and the Sex and the City TV shows and I’m sure they are not really all that New York City is.
You have to come and visit NYC some day! :-)
Indeed we do! I’m going to be in NY in 3 weeks’ time-can’t wait to get some good shots!
Spring now seems to have arrived in NYC, and in three weeks the city will be absolutely gorgeous!
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great fotos and great comments, discussion. for me too, the second one . . . blue emerging from gray and black . . . is stunning, riveting!
It would be an even better photo if it hadn’t been cropped so close to the window on the right… but as I recall, there was something distracting in the way there.
nice photos
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Thanks, Amar!
thanks for the ping, i follow your blog and enjoy your adventures, especially in the kayak, thanks again MJ
Thanks for following—lots more to come!
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New York City is a city of contrasts – like every big city on the globe, isn’t it?
Certainly!
Oh, you met that challenge in spades!
“Contrast” is relatively easy—wait till they come up with something like “Advantage” or “Misanthropic” ;-)
These are gorgeous shots!
Thanks!!