By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Merge. I’ve already posted one interpretation, but here’s another one.
One some days, you don’t know where the sea ends and the sky begins…
More photos are here.
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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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The second is my favorite! It’s very peaceful. Z
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It was actually very disorienting, with the distinction between up and down lost…
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Have to agree with Z, that second shot is outstanding. Is that Johna? It is almost as if she’s kayaking out of time and place. Surreal, like a dream.
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Yes, that’s Johna.
And it definitely was a surreal experience—and, as I said in reply to Z, a disorienting experience, because the normal visual cues, the horizon, the little wavelets, etc., were gone, and looking down into the water was the same as looking up at the sky… it was like being, all of a sudden, in the center of a three-dimensional sphere…
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Really like the 2nd one too…nice shot.
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Everyone likes that one… :-)
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Like a Turner painting, or the Australian Lloyd Rees. Fabulous, evocative shots Vlad.
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I had to look up Lloyd Rees (thanks!)… and I see what you mean, although the technique, and the general look, is quite different, it seems to me. Turner, now…
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Yes, Rees’ technique and look is different, but his fixation with the water resulted in some very ‘aqueous’ paintings!
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Yes, I saw that. As with Turner, of course. Thanks for bringing Rees to my attention!
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You’re welcome Vlad :)
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superb!!
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Thanks!!
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Love the scale down scheme and each photograph is so beautiful.
Very intriguing!
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I did order the photos in a certain way, although I didn’t put all that much thought into it…
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Awesome pictures – I can only imagine how surreal it must be. Wow!
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Doesn’t happen very often, though—I think this was the only time it’s been quite this perfect in all my kayak trips in the last ten years…
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Beautiful examples for the challenge.
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:-) Glad you like them!
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Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Liminality at its visual best. Love these.
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“Liminality” is a very useful word in this context… :-)
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It’s one of my favorite words. Thanks for giving me something to apply it to. :)
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one of the things I love about the ocean. so beautiful.
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Actually, this was in the Long Island Sound, not the open Atlantic Ocean—a relatively protected body of water, where phenomena such as this are much more likely to be observed…
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These are awesome shots!!
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Thanks, Madelaine!
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These are all wonderful, I love the lost horizon lines!
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Yes, normally you would see the opposite shoreline of Long Island Sound, actually quite near, and all illusion of suspension in space would be lost…
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Oh I like the second one!
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Join the club! ;-)
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That 2nd photo is just breathtaking.. Love it! Was in NYC recently and saw people kayak and wondered if it was you.
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Thanks!!
Yes, I thought your “Sunset” photo looked kind of familiar… ;-) Any recently observed kayakers probably weren’t us, since we’ve been out of town…
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Excellent interpretation and photos!
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Thanks, Fergie!
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YES!
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The perfect comment! ;-)
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