By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Our Neighborhood.
Last week’s snowstorm was surely the last gasp of winter. On Saturday, the remnants of the snow were vanishing in the warm sunshine, the first flowers were peeping out from under last year’s dead leaves, and everyone was out in Central Park. I was there too with my camera (not my cell phone)…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Runners and puddles
Reflections 1
On the bridle trail
Promenade
Reservoir jogging track
Reflections 2
Walking the dog
Remnants of snow
Reflected feet
Crowded
Killing two birds with one stone
Red shoes
City all around
First flower
Hidden crocuses
Golden in the sun
Shy snowdrop
Yellow and orange
Old and new
Big puddle
At the turtle pond
Pair
Spring mess
Resting in the sun
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Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Muy bella galería!!
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Thank you!!
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Didn’t you mean, Gracias? :-)
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Nice shots, Vladimir. You guys certainly live in one of the more interesting neighborhoods in the world.
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Interesting in many ways—but I am sure you woudn’t swap it, not permanently at least, for the ocean and forests of the Pacific North West…
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And even in NYC, our friends in Red Hook would likely beg to differ… the Upper East Side is very picturesque, though, and has its own charm, which grows on one slowly!
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Fabulous!
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Thank you!
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You’re lucky to be able to call Central Park your neighborhood :)
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It’s just round the corner—very lucky indeed!
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What a great collection of shadows and reflections….I love that low winter sun :-) and beautiful colours in the flowers
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First really spring-like day of the year, and the first real show of flowers…
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I love the crocuses, I haven’t seen those here yet.
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They are not commonly out here yet either—all those flowers were on one particularly sunny bank…
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Gorgeous! thank you ; )
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You are most welcome! :-)
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Resting in the sun and reflections 2 – two of my favorites. Killing two birds … So cute. Great stuff!
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It was very cute :-) Thanks!!
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Lovely gallery, I love the early spring flowers.
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I do too. I was hoping to find some and I did find some, although it took some doing. But next weekend, they will be everywhere…
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A lovely spring gallery! There’s something about turtles… where do they keep them in the winter or do they just hibernate in the mud?
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I think the turtles hibernate in the mud banks of their turtle pond… and now they were all out of their holes all along the bank, sunning themselves…
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It looks grand!
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Thanks! :-)
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Those flowers look beautiful! Cannot wait to see some here :)
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Any day now, no doubt… :-)
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Beautiful photos on a grey Monday… made me smile.
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Good!
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Beautiful images!
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Thank you, Allyson! You must have seen much the same same sights this past weekend…
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Oh no. I have not been to the Park in over a month. Although it’s not very far from where I am. I enjoyed what I missed in your photographs, which really captured an essence. The Park is a metamorphose of details. I am always impressed at how each photographing the Park translate it differently.
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When you next go to Central Park, you’ll find it quite changed… things move very fast once Spring begins :-)
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Beautiful! It’s so nice to see so many colors starting to pop up from the ground :)
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Yes, suddenly it’s quite possible to believe it’s Spring :-)
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Fascinating and beautiful! Love the picture of the turtles getting a little sun! Nice!
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Unexpected, that. It’s amazing how fast things move once they start moving…
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I love how the crocuses are coming up with snow still on the ground. Also love your reflection shots.
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Snowdrops have been around for a month now. But crocuses really mean it’s Spring!
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That was so refreshing! It was like a visit to the Park itself —
Love the “off with their heads” compositions, concentrating all the emphasis on the motion within.
Also love reflections, and flowers — yeah, a lot of goodies in this post, Vlad! Thank you.
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You are most welcome! I am so happy you appreciate it … :-)
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Stunning album!
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Thanks, Rosa!
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Very nice photo’s! Lovely to see where you live.
Take care,
Patty
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Thank you so much, Patty!!
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A man after my own heart! DSLRs forever!
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Of course! Why use a camera phone when the DSLR is so much better? Although I admit, looking through the other responses to this challenge, that a few people have managed to capture in their camera photos a certain immediacy that a more perfect photo might not have had…
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I agree Vladimir. Definitely has its advantages!
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what a wonderful treat vlad … takes me straight back to the upper west side where my son lived for a few years … but i did not see it in winter!
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It’s been mostly brown and drab in winter these past few years—except of course when snow comes, but snow has been infrequent… But now it’s almost spring, and the park is waking up :-)
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I love seeing pictures of NYC. My husband and I got to go there twice. Still, I’m a country girl, and the best place I loved about NYC was Central Park. We stayed across from it the first time we were there, and I made it a point to walk the whole park. The second time we were there we were in Brooklyn. I loved Brooklyn Bridge and the neighborhoods in that section.
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Those are definitely some of the highlights! Still, it sounds like you have to come back and see a few more bits of NYC… :-)
Thanks for following our blog!!
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Wow, the puddle/shadow/reflection photos are great. And I know they weren’t easy to do. Crocus, snowdrops…turtles! That’s spring for sure!
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I have thought so the last few days—the air has been so sweet and warm. But now it’s back to winter, seemingly. Well, it is March…
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wow, those spring blossoms and that blue sky just pop here! thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for visiting and commenting!! :-)
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what beauty in those contrasts! i love those first splashes of spring color, but wow, it’s nice to view them from my perch in the tropics!
thanks!
it’s time for the workers to appear, so i’d best put away the computer, as they will create a lot of dust today!
hope its a good one for both of you!
lisa/z
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And you too, Z!!
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