By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Change.
A place of great change, sudden and gradual, catastrophic and constructive, individual and collective, visible all around—
—the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.
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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
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Wind Against Current 
a very thoughtful and moving post. Thanks
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Thanks for reading, Tish!
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Wow! I am speechless. Your photos represent true change in this very mad, mad world. Beautiful and touching.
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Yes, I thought this really was change…
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changed everything forever… Thank you!
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Thank you, Amy!
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my parents, Staten Islanders, often visit the site to photograph its progress. such a sense of healing to see it being rebuilt, but life will never be the same for the families of so many who were killed that day. Thank you for posting this as a reminder how much has changed.
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Thank you for that very thoughtful comment!
For progress on the new towers, see my response to the following comment…
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And it must be changing everyday, I suppose :)
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Yes, it is—slowly but surely.
These photos were taken a year ago, in April 2012. Since then, we’ve seen the new World Trade Center tower often, albeit from a greater distance, every time we’ve returned from a paddle to Pier 40. And I always take a picture. Here is one of the most recent pictures of it, from early March of this year:
Over the past year it’s clearly risen much higher, but it’s still not finished…
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Don’t you love this progress? I can stand there and watch all day!
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And we do (more or less)! See my response to the preceding comment… :-)
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Now you are going to make me work ? : ))))
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Yes—we expect everyone to pull their weight on this blog! ;-)
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Just to make sure you got it…I wish a bunch of bloggers could get together and discuss “blog tips” Some of us have a slower learning curve. : )
http://vastlycurious.com/2013/02/22/weekly-photo-c…rward-building
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Unfortunately, that link doesn’t work—it’s abbreviated with “…” in the middle… The complete link is http://vastlycurious.com/2013/02/22/weekly-photo-challenge-forward-building/ :-)
You’ve documented the progression really well! And shown, too, how slow the progression is…
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I know I looked . My post was on 2/22/2013 and mirrored yours ! ( If you are so inclined to work at it? )
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Yes, I saw yours! Very nice… :-)
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Thanks Vladimir ! !
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Creative minds ..I love this building!! Wish they had built two though…..
Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward Building
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I agree… I did like the twinness (and other things) of the original Twin Towers…
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Those trees have grown a lot taller since I was there :-)
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And this was already a year ago—they are presumably even taller now!
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Perfect! The second photo is very beautiful.
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Springtime nature in the midst of the glass and concrete :-)
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So beautiful and so appropriate for the challenge. i love this.
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So glad—thanks so much! :-)
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Powerful.
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Thank you.
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Love that you used this tribute for the photo challenge.
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It came to mind right away…
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Amazing! Love this post!
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Thanks, Andrea!
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wow.
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:-)
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Your photos are really lovely – so nice to see the forsythia tree in bloom against the mirrored glass.
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It was last April—spring was happening, just as it is now…
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Amazing reflections!
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The place is built of reflections…
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That was amazing to see the sky and clouds reflected.
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Yes :-)
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Brilliant!
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Thanks!!
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<3.
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Thank you!
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Beautiful! :-)
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Thanks so much!!
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Although I prefer the height of the trees or waterfalls, these skyscrapers look great! Best wishes, Ångel
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And to you! Thanks, Ångel!
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Beautifully captured Vladimir. The last time I was there I was staring out over the top of New York city. What a peaceful memorial that truly is.
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That’s change, all right…
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Never forget.
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Not likely!
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Wonderful, wonderful.
I’ve never seen the new memorial. How lucky to see it through your eyes.
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It wasn’t quite finished when we went there and took these photos, last April. We’ll have to go back to see the finished memorial…
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It’s a great place to visit and see change every time. I have to say that after 3 or 4 years I started to dislike working there though. One couldn’t get away from the constant reminders of a horrible event – bright and shiny as it is, beautiful as the memorial is, there is still so much tension there, at least if you’re there every day. But it certainly is a good symbol of change.
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I can totally see that! Visitors don’t get that same sense. (I wonder how the Boston Marathon will change, now…)
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That’s a good question. Already there’s been commentary about how Patriot’s Day & the Marathon, which have always been very positive themes for Bostonians, will now be linked with this. Yes, it’s very different for a visitor.
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Beautiful pictures! I really like the second one down. I watched a program about how this was designed, and the symbolism and meaning behind almost everything that we see in the new building and memorial. It was fascinating to watch it, and now to see these pictures makes it even more meaningful! Thank you! Excellent as always!
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Thanks, Becky! I hope you get a chance to see it all in person at some point…
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