By Vladimir Brezina
A Sunset is always followed by a Sunrise…
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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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So very beautiful…absolutely stunning!
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Thanks, Cee!!
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These are beautiful!
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Thank you!
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Wow. Looks like the sky is on fire.
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:-)
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Oh my! Breathtaking!
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:-) :-)
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Wow. Pure molten gold. Stunning.
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:-) :-) :-)
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Oh. Yowza. Just gorgeous.
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As you know, New York City sunrises are the most spectacular in the world … ;-)
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I’m looking at this on my iPhone and it’s spectacular. Can’t wait to see it on my laptop.
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Bigger is definitely better! However, I find the colors vary dramatically from display to display—it’s no longer really possible to say what the “true” color of a digital photo is…
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Yes, even better on a larger screen. I also agree about the “true color” issue. It’s an odd little problem that’s crept in from the digital age.
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This is really COOL! It like I am standing there watching it from sunset to sunrise, wow!!
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Different rivers: the Hudson River faces west, for sunset, whereas the East River faces east, for sunrise…
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that the sunset was on Saturday, but the sunrise was not Sunday’s—I missed that—but Monday’s….
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They are all stunning!z
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Thank you as always, Z!
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Spectacular photos, Vlad. I never thought of NYC as beautiful until I saw it through your eyes/camera – always a pleasure.
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Most places are beautiful if you look at them right… and it’s bound to be true for such a complicated place as NYC!
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And you and Johanna have the secret of “looking at it right” and sharing your vision so well :-)
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I never see sunrise. I really should make the effort and just do it, your photos prove how worthwhile it is. Just beautiful.
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It’s most definitely worth it! I sometimes grumble when I have to get up to see the sunrise, but when I actually see it I stop grumbling… Of course, it’s also possible simply to stay up all night… ;-)
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Such gorgeous photos of special times of day. Enjoyed your post!
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I am happy to hear that! :-)
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You get the BEST sunrises and sunsets, Vlad. :)
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They happen every day, and I just select the best ones… ;-)
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Show off! :)
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Just a bit… :-)
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Love this. Totally reposting on Facebook.
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Thank you for that!
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Wow! I very much enjoyed looking at your various photos. I’m glad you stopped by to visit me so I could visit you back.
Nancy
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That’s how the blogosphere, and WordPress in particular, works! Thank you for stopping by, Nancy! :-)
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These are beautiful!
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Thank you, Gracie!
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Sell your photos!
For sure you could have a show!:)
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It’s a thought—I might get to it one of these days… thanks for your encouragement! :-)
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These are crazy good! What camera set up do you use? Do you have to do any post-production?
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I didn’t have my big camera handy, so all these photos were taken with my waterproof kayaking camera, a Pentax Optio W90.
It’s basically a fancy point-and-shoot camera. It generates compressed JPGs, and for this and other reasons rendering crisp detail is not its strength, especially under low-light conditions such as these. What it is good at is producing almost “painterly” images with vivid colors. And in fact I further enhanced the color saturation afterwards in Photoshop a bit—too much makes the photos unrealistically garish—to convey some idea of what the scene was “really” like. That is, however, very arbitrary as I can see that the same photo looks completely different on each of my computer monitors, and so presumably the display of each reader of this blog…
Apart from that, I often crop photos, adjust the horizontals and verticals, etc., in Photoshop as necessary. And in these photos I did remove some excessive lens flare. But that’s pretty much it for post-production.
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Having had a quick look at the w90 I find your photos even more amazing given, as you say, it is a simple point and shoot. I had thought to myself to get the images you did would require a really really expensive camera. Basically now I have got no excuses :)
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Well, maybe I shouldn’t have said “simple”. These days, even small, “simple” cameras are quite miraculous little gadgets, packing a lot of features into a tiny frame. The problem is that most of those features are trying to think and act automatically for the photographer, so that the photographer is in many ways at the mercy of such a camera, whereas a big professional camera gives the photographer as much manual control as possible. That’s ultimately what puts the W90 into the point-and-shoot category, with a relatively low price to match.
So, indeed, no excuses!
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Absolute wow shots! and such vivid colors!! I’m so not a morning person and hardly capture sunrises but now I know what I’ve been missing :-) thanks for sharing these.
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You could stay up all night or move north ;-)
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Top photos, I remember docking in Brooklyn 1st street in the late sixties early seventies, December, snowing and the only record the local station seemed to have was ‘Hey Jude’ by the Beatles.
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It’s changed quite a bit since then, although a few things never change… :-)
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Brooklyn bridge has probably not changed for one.
Mike
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That’s one thing they are actively trying to prevent from changing…
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Did you sleep at all? ;-) Really nice pictures!
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There was actually a whole day in between this sunrise and the sunset in the previous post, so I was able to get plenty of sleep… :-)
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Wow this sunrise is so intense in colour! Such vibrant colours :P it’s beautiful!
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Thanks so much, Evil Nymph! :-)
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You sure got a reward for getting up early!
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As I recall, I went back to bed as soon as it was over ;-)
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Truly beautiful! It’s as if the city is dead and given life by the morning sun… amazing shots!
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It is very much like that :-) The City never sleeps, true, but toward morning it does doze, especially on the Upper East Side…
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Some stunning photos… Amazing colours!
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Thank you!!
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nice shots
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Thank you! :-)
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Thanks for sharing these beautiful sights. I love when the colors go from red to blue to yellow and at last turn into pale blue – Stunning!
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And all that within just a few minutes—we stand and watch, mesmerized :-) Thanks, Hanna!!
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