By Vladimir Brezina
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On a Florida beach recently, lost in the details…
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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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If you had not said beach, I would have thought snow. Beautiful abstracts.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Sugar-white sands…
Beautiful.
Thanks!!
I L ♡ V E to hate you both…awesome shots…..:) It’s just raining here !
No need to hate ;-) It’s raining here too—although we are still hoping for some snow. These shots were taken a couple of weeks ago…
Stunning! So simple yet so dramatic and pure!
The simpler, the more dramatic… Thanks, Z!!
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Very nice. It’s true the sand looks like snow so much…
It was like snow, except warm :-)
Gorgeous, Vlad, like other commenters I thought it was snow first!
Maybe it’s because we are still hoping for a final round of snow, and snow photos, up here in NYC ;-)
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Wow! White sand how amazing – I love the ripples on the sand beautiful pictures.
The sand really is like white sugar—not just a figure of speech! :-)
very beautiful – i love the white-washed look on those twisty grasses…reminds me of one i took at Dead Horse Bay: http://yichinglin.com/2012/01/29/mirage/. but your compositions are way cooler!! (smile)
Yours is remarkably similar! :-) I think the difference is you kept yours realistic whereas I went for a bit of abstraction…
love it!
Wonderful eye. Way to find the beauty in the small things.
Well, there wasn’t all that much on that beach except small things… but those small things turned out to be remarkably productive photographically—these grasses, the shells, the birds…
Those would make a nice series of canvases all without frames on one wall… Gorgeous!
:-) Thanks!!
These are amazing photographs. They remind me of the art of Cy Twombly.
Cy Twombly? I think I see what you mean, up to a point. But looking at his paintings (his photographs are something else again), it seems to me that they always exhibit, intentionally, the effort it took to produce them. Whereas with these photos there was no production, only observation ;-)
Thank you for your reply if that’s you Johna. In my visual sense, I believe photographic observation to be a unique individual expression. And with a passion of practice it evolves into a refinement of interpretation that I look upon as being art. The images of the Tendrills added to my da
Sorry pressed the wrong button. Anyway, I find the images to be so elegant that it brought to mind Cy Twombly. I so much value photography because it captures a moment, a perspective, that I value greatly. Thanks for sharing the Tendrills, :) Allyson
(not Johna, but Vlad)
I completely agree with you about photography as art! But I think the different techniques naturally leave their traces in the results, and should do so. So photography is not tactile, whereas painting and sculpture, for instance, are—and that can be seen in Cy Twombly’s work. That’s basically what I meant by my first response to your initial comment above.
Thanks so much for your comments, Allyson! I am happy that Tendrils found a viewer with your esthetic sense! :-)
Nature’s calligraphy?
But where have the colors come from!
Green and yellow grass waving and twisting in the wind, blue and black shadows of the grass on the sand underneath….
Really nice! I like the way you gradually reduced the contrast with each successive photo, and the way intensifying the saturation increased the abstraction. What an interesting comment about Twombly, and I can see what you mean, though I hadn’t thought of that. Someone I worked for once had a gorgeous Twomby painting in the living room, but much of his work doesn’t appeal to me. Now I’m curious – do you like Joan Mitchell’s work?
I haven’t seen too much of Joan Mitchell’s work in real life, but looking at it now online, some of it is quite lovely. (On the whole, though, I think I tend to prefer abstractions with larger areas of continuous color…)
Excuse me for butting in here, but I just want to say two words:
Richard Diebenkorn.
Exactly the right two words! One of my favorites…
Diebenkornian colors, now that I look at them again…
Beautiful…love the way the colours of the shadows have come out so blue.
With a little bit of help… ;-)
Of course :-)
I scrolled back and forth several times. Mesmerizing :-)
Cool shots.
Thank you!! :-)
My pleasure! For sure!
Wow the way you captured this is so awesome! Beautiful.
Thanks so much—so glad you like it!!
I love the blue shadows
A complement to the yellows and greens of the grass itself… :-)
Brazilian flag colors…
I guess they are! :-)
I live in Florida and haven’t seen them on the beach … a least, not those colors. Are you teasin’ … ????? ~~~~ : – )
No, it was exactly like this. The camera doesn’t lie… ;-)
Great pics!
Thanks!!
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