By Vladimir Brezina
Look what’s floating by in the turquoise-green water!
I collect them all
to take them home.
But, sadly, the brilliant colors are evanescent…
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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 
But, happily, your dazzling photos aren’t fleeting : )
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this was a collectable memory!
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Yes! :-)
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They will live forever, or as long as WordPress does, anyway ;-)
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Beautiful!
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Thank you!
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So cool to have the photos.
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I did have the feeling at the time that this might be my one chance to capture the colors in their full glory…
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So striking!
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They sure were, there in the water :-)
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Glorious colours
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They were :-)
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Wow the colour contrast is stunning….these are wonderful. I really lie them :-)
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Excellent! :-)
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That should be like not lie… Grrrr to predictive texting!!
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Could be a lot worse…
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simple powerful and says season change
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Yes, winter in Florida—such a tough season there ;-)
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captured the zen of their moments though
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But if I’d left them in the water, they would still be colorful…
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or they might still have faded!
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I guess we’ll never know, since I did take them out of the water… ;-)
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love, not like!
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:-) :-)
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Magnificent color contrast ! Lovely leaves. Thank you for sharing
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You are most welcome!
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That is sweet, I like natural mementos of my trips. Great photos :)
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Or not entirely natural… here’s one that we picked up on our trip down the Hudson from Albany to NYC in 2011, and which at this moment is sitting on the shelf behind me as I type this:
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Stunning!
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Thank you so much!!
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Great simple images.
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:-)
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The colors will live on through your photos. Brilliant and beautiful. :-)
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… or as long as WordPress lasts ;-)
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I love the contrasts…..
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Thank you…
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Wonderful as ever Vladimir!
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Thanks so much!! :-)
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These would have been good for this week’s ‘lost in the details’ challenge. Gorgeous images.
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Thanks! I think I came up with something even better for that challenge, though :-)
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Yes, have already ‘liked’ that one. :)
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Great colors and contrast. Sometimes when we let leaves dry in a warm temperature, pressed between papers and under weigh (like inside a dictionary), they keep the color, specially if they aren’t dry yet. I believe it depends on the type of tree.
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I used to that when I was little. It sometimes worked, and in any case the dried leaves falling unexpectedly out of old books years afterwards brought back nice memories… In this case I just wanted to keep the wet colors bright so I could photograph them against a dark background with my better camera back at the hotel, but with one thing and another I didn’t get to it in time…
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You’ve got nice shots, though. The 3 colors make a strong and vivid composition. I was surprised when I saw the leaves on the boat (the last photo). I thought they were much smaller.
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Well, the boat isn’t all that big… ;-)
But yes, the two larger leaves were 5 inches or so across, the two smaller ones three or four inches.
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compared to the boat, they look pretty huge. i’d say “5 inches across” are huge leaves! well done!
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Everything is bigger in the tropics… :-)
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ha!
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those are stunning images! wow!
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… but transitory—glad I took photos :-) Thanks, Z!
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i’m catching up before leaving early for guayaquil, a long way from where i live. you’re up mighty late as well!
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As we both know, blogging is a full-time occupation ;-)
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i laughed. i’ve been painting and painting on that large ‘if fish could fly,’ and then there are images and images from last week’s road trip, and yes, then there is word press! i’m so grateful to have so many things that i love to do – i will never be bored!
z
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A happy place to be in! :-)
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