By Vladimir Brezina
Last night, as a lavender dusk settled over Hell Gate
a pale shell of the full moon rose up among the high buildings
then shone white in the deepening blue sky
as the bright lights of the Second Avenue construction came on
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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 (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.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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thanks for showing me the beauty of the city, all the lights and the sunset, beautiful, MJ
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You are welcome, MJ! Yes, we see some spectactular light effects at dusk and especially at dawn and sunrise. I missed some of the best ones as I didn’t have my camera handy—unforgivable in a photographer! :-)—but here’s one:
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Beautiful series of photos!
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Thanks, Lynn!
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Beautiful full moon photos!
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Thanks, Fergiemoto! Unfortunately, I came too late to catch the moon just rising above the horizon, no doubt appearing absolutely huge and perfectly placed just behind the Hell Gate Bridge :-(… Well, next time!
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