By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Renewal.
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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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all are excellent for this challenge as well as gorgeous!
z
Thanks, Z!!
I like the third photo very much :-)
More photos from that day are here…
Wonderful shots Vladimir! The first and last photos are my favorites
Thank you!!
That image from Belize is incredible!
Thanks, Jeni!
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Great images…the last one is stunning and really strikes a chord with me
More here…
I agree – the first and third are my favorites. The first is totally amazing – I’ve never seen anything like that!
Young mangroves establishing themselves in the shallows… :-)
Wonderful photos :)
Thank you so much, Jenn!
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Really great choices!
Thanks, Naomi!
Great photos for the theme!
Thank you so much!
Love the top shot. It reminds me of an Indonesian island I know which is just one mangrove tree on a sandbar at low tide. At high tide there’s no sandbar, just a tree.
:-) Yes, we saw sights like that in Florida and in the Caribbean… And the magroves establish themselves amazingly fast. Even recent marine charts are outdated in many places—where they still show only shallows, there are already whole mangrove islands :-)
I KNEW you would have a great one!
:-)
This is very good interpretation of this challenge. Beautiful photos!! Thank you for your visit to our blog earlier.
You are most welcome. Thank you!
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Great pictures! Since everyone liked the first and third one, I looked at the second one – is that the reflection of a tree? Nice.
Yes, actually in Central Park :-)
What is the first shot?
Young mangroves establishing themselves in the shallows around one of the islands on Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize. More photos here…
Thank you, I never saw them before.
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Very nice shots !! My favorite is the 1st & 3rd photo….
Those seem to be the favorites…
Love the third photograph
Excellent! :-)
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Ah, the mangroves are a perfect sign of renewal, Vlad. Great shot of them too :)
They are… they’ll grow anywhere given half a chance, and fast!
Fast … really? That’s good to hear.
Now there’s something I have to look forward to when I get back home: learning about the mangroves. They were all around, but I never got the chance to become properly acquainted.
Amazing plants—they grow in salt water, float around as little seedling, can get their start even completely submerged, put up little snorkels to breathe, then throw out aerial roots to spread further…
About all I knew was the salt water bit … though I’ve walked over a ‘growing’ bed on the river at the Brisbane Botanical Gardens a couple of times, that’s as close as i’ve come. i know the destruction of mangroves around the delta of the Mekong as a result of Agent Orange has had a significant impact on the environment there.
always a great pict !!!
I try to please ;-)
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I am curious as to where the first shot was taken.
On one of the islands on Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize. More photos here…
It really is a beautiful part of the world.
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Fascinated with that first shot, Vladimir….do tell me what?…. and where?
These are young mangroves establishing themselves in the shallows around one of the islands on Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize. (More photos from Glover’s Reef are here.) Mangroves can grow in salt water, and seedling floating in the water establish themselves on shoals that may even be completely submerged, thereby starting new mangrove islands. A common sight on the Gulf coast of Florida, in the Caribbean (as in this picture), and many other parts of the world…
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All beautiful and perfect for the challenge – the Belize shot is the most fascinating for me!
It was a fascinating sight!
My favorite is the first!
The first one seems to be winning hands down!
Yes, I like the mangrove one best for the theme. Were those planted or just a new area they are inhabiting?
Not planted—quite naturally spreading themselves to new ground…
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I like the last photo a lot. :)
More from that series are here…
Really like the first one
That is the favorite, it appears…
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Some very cool shots. Love the first one a lot. I am subscribing to your blog.
:-) Thanks so much for subscribing!!
Beautiful photography. Thank you for sharing your talents.
… and thank you for visiting and commenting!! :-)
Great content befitting the word.
Great way to show renewwell.
Thank you so much, Karen!