By Vladimir Brezina
It’s freezing in New York City this week… so why not post a few photos of a warm, tropical beach in Florida?
St. Pete Beach, Florida, December 2012.
More photos are here.
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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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Wind Against Current 
Why not, indeed. Thanks for the “warm up.”
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Here in NYC we certainly would welcome a little warm up this week…
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It’s freezing in Montreal too! I could really use warmth right now, and your photos just provided some. Thank you. These are wonderful.
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Thanks, Gracie—keep warm!
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Beautiful! We moved from the Tampa area a few years ago, and your photographs make me a little homesick for it. Especially when it’s 20 degrees out :-)
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Yes, 20 degrees out will bring up those memories ;-)
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I am just 45 minutes below where you were, in the small city of Bradenton. Glad you got to enjoy a little bit of our Florida weather! It’s very chilly now, at least for a Floridian! Maybe it’s still warm for a New Yorker!
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I see you have highs around 70 degrees these days there in Bradenton. That’s really chilly! ;-)
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But at night it’s in the 40’s! That might as well be the artic for us Floridians! :)
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I know what you mean! When I lived in Southern California, after I’d acclimated a bit, I really suffered on winter nights when the temperatures dropped down to—horrors!—60 degrees…
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i love how the pinks from the first photo seemed to bleed into the sky on the second photo! nice images that reflect a well-earned break!
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I didn’t notice that, but yes! Thanks, Z! :-)
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I could use some of that! Beautiful pictures! :-)
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Thank you!!
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A little bit of warmth wouldn’t go amiss right now. Great shots to temper this cold winter day in the Pacific North West. That one of the two seagulls flying through the sunset is a real gem!
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It seems to be cold all over the US now… except in Florida, of course :-)
They are pelicans—much more interesting than seagulls!
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Great photo post!!
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Thanks!!
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Beautiful Day with a perfect ending :)
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Thank you! :-)
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:)
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I have this very picture – height of the sun unfortunately but some hotel – was it the hotel in ‘some like hot ‘ Jack Lemon & Tony Curtis classic?
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No, the hotel in Some Like It Hot was apparently the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. I’ve been there too, and the two hotels do indeed have a similar feel… But the Don CeSar is smaller, I think, and bright pink :-)
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Thanks for researching that Vladimir was a gorgeous view anyway – I remember it well – wet film shots
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Thanks, Scott!
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Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU! I needed that! Brrrrrrr…
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Yes, same here… it feels seriously cold in NYC for the first time this winter…
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lovely photos..the 4th shot with flying birds is really awesome as complemented by the beautiful colors of sunset..
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Every time I see flying pelicans I instinctively raise my camera :-)
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As I read this and enjoy these photos, freezing doesn’t begin to cover it. I woke up to -2°F this morning!
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Yes, I’ve been reading about those temperatures… all I can say, I am very happy that we have an urban heat island…
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Some of my favorite photos have been made in those kind of temps. It’s still supposed to be extremely cold this weekend, and as long as it isn’t too windy you can find me in the mountains :-D
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Yes, I saw your Resolved photo… :-)
For sure! And you can find me in Central Park, our best, poor substitute. I am still waiting for some picturesque snow, however…
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It’s hot here in Southern Africa, but I still appreciate a beautiful sunset!
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I know it’s hot in other parts of the world right now—Southern Africa, not to mention Australia… Even Florida has that problem in the summer—last August when we were in Key Biscayne, before dawn it was pleasantly cool for a walk along the beach, but as soon as the sun came up the air turned into an oven…
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Love the flying pelicans against the sunset! When they are on the ground, it seems impossible that they can be so graceful in water and air and actually aerodynamic.
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And the way they plunge straight into the water to catch fish!… One of my all-time favorite birds :-)
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Yes some warm sunshine would be lovely right now. It’s warmed up to a balmy 15 F here, with the wind whipping it feels below zero.
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Good try, but Jeff (see his comment above) wind this one, I think ;-)
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Check out the temps on Mt. Washington. -86 windchill. I grew up north of here and remember times when it didn’t get above 0 the entire month of January.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/wind-chill-bottoms-out-at-86-atop-mount-washington/
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Ok, ok, you win! :-)
That’s cold! On the whole, though, I can tolerate cold, and there’s usually something that I can do about it. Excessive heat, on the other hand…
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LOL – my competitive side thanks you. I can deal with the cold if I can be moving to keep myself warm tho I’m glad to not be living so far north. In extreme heat I don’t want to move at all.
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I know that feeling…
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Love the colors …and the daydreams. Thanks! I needed that!
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We all need a bit of that, in one way or another…
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Beautiful sunset!
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It was! :-)
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Love the one of birds in flight at day’s end. Glorious sunset. Beautiful imagery.
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Thanks! And coincidentally, we were back there just last week. More photos to come…
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Wow, what impressive photos! Absolutely gorgeous!
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Thanks so much! :-)
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