By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Changing Seasons.
Looking through photos that I’ve taken in Central Park in the Spring, and in the Fall, I am momentarily confused. Which season is which?
In both, the leaves glow with color…
But the Spring leaves have fresh young faces
whereas the Fall leaves have lived
More photos from the Spring and Fall are, respectively, here and here.
... 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.
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These are lovely,
Thank you!
Love the lighting!
Thanks!!
These are beautiful.
Thank you, Gracie!
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That’s interesting, same here. I’ve got photos from each of the past four seasons and each could easily have come from another. Suppose we gotta get used to it.
We do indeed… Thanks, Bob! :-)
beautiful shots!
Glad you like them!
They are all beautiful, whether captured in the Spring or the Autumn. Lovely photos, Vladimir, as always :)
Thanks so much, Marianne!
I love the spring leaves. so filled with promise and life.
They always are, so beautiful and tender at the beginning…
Very nice juxtaposition of how one moves into the other and the other moves into it: the new life grows into the old and the old helps to bring about the new.
The cycle of life… :-)
Exactly.
Love it !!
Excellent! Thank you!!
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Beautiful!!
Thanks!!
Nice comparison. Vlad. :)
Well, I’ve posted so many straight fall shots recently… had to do something a bit different :-)
I love the words.
It’s supposed to be about the photos ;-)
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Love backlit fall leaves…nice shots.
I like them too… that’s why I’ve got so many shots of them!
It’s been strange weather.
You are in Oregon? I haven’t been following the weather on the West Coast, but here in NYC the weather has actually been reasonably normal for this time of year—certainly compared to the last few weird years. Normal, that is, except for Superstorm Sandy… ;-)
Yes, I’m in Oregon. Here, we had a delayed summer and typical winter weather seemed to be slow in coming this year. It still seems to be warmer than usual despite some pretty wild storms lately.
I was including Sandy in my comment. Wasn’t last winter warmer than usual and previous winters with record breaking snow and cold?
“Wasn’t last winter warmer than usual and previous winters with record breaking snow and cold?”
Yes, that sounds about right. Last winter, after that freak Halloween snowstorm (this year, of course, we had Sandy for Halloween…just a coincidence? ;-) ), there was essentially no snow for the rest of the winter, and it was exceptionally warm.
In the previous couple of years, on the other hand, there were several huge snowstorms. This site, which I’ve just discovered, has a comprehensive compilation of these and other weather statistics dating back all the way to 1876.
Thanks for the link to the stats site. Pity it doesn’t include my corner of the south Oregon coast.
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wow, the first shot just melts in my brain…lovely!
Young & fresh does that… :-)
ha!
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Great shots, thanks MJ
Thanks, MJ!
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Thanks for showing the difference…I wouldn’t know coming form a tropical country.
No doubt you have similar things happening with the vegetation in the tropics that we probably wouldn’t pick up on…
Beautiful!
Thanks, Naomi!
I love the vibrancy of the foliage… ;-)
Early spring and late fall is best for foliage colors… kind of like sunrise and sunset :-)
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