By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Flow.
No doubt you thought, us being kayakers and all, you would see in this post flowing water. But in New York City there’s plenty of flow on land…
Figment art festival
Snow.
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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 
People flow!
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Yes!
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A fun change of pace. :)
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Good—I thought I should do something a bit different…
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You’ve got some really lovely artistic shots here! I love the take on the theme.
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Thanks, Naomi!! :-)
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These are splendid, and yes of course I thought you’d have some watery scenes. Especially like the second from the top. It reminds me of the famouse Breugel winter scene.
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Yes, I did think of it :-)
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Those last two shots look like paintings, Vlad!
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Amazing what the camera can do! :-)
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Soooo different for you Vlad. Spectacular as an impressionist body of work.
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I am going more in that direction as time goes on, it seems :-)
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NO YOU ARE NOT!!!!
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But I might like to… ;-)
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Nope! You have to much positive energy and a great wife and talent! (not to mention that damn Kayak)
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The kayak makes it all worth it ;-)
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Beautiful pictures. Thank You for sharing.
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You are most welcome!
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I especially liked “Descending Into the Subway.”
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Thanks! I like that one quite a bit myself :-)
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The last shot is very interesting, having seen that exact scene so many times, your photo does capture the feeling.
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In a good way, I hope! ;-)
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I love the way you made the movement.
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Just open up the camera and the movement makes itself… :-)
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The end ones are great, as someone else commented, impressionistic..
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:-) :-)
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I love it…crowd flow!
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Can’t escape it in NYC! :-)
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Some great examples of flow here. Its good to venture outside of the box. You are right, I thought I was going to see a water themed photo.:)
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I’ll be going back to water-themed photos right away :-)
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I like the dynamism of that second skating picture.
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As the light diminishes, and the exposure gets longer and longer, you begin to capture more and more the dynamics of the actual scene—kind of like light painting :-)
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The 2 skaters shots are seriously good Vlad. Love them.
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Happy to hear you say that, Dan! :-)
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The second photo immediately reminded me of the paintings of Hendrick Avercamp
https://www.google.nl/search?q=hendrick+avercamp+schilderijen&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=F3N&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eibDUc-iI8mQswbTkIGQBw&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=959
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Thank you—interesting! Someone above already said Brueghel, but Avercamp is more like… :-)
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Brueghel also made great winterlandscapes. Both of them, actually, father and son. And very similar to Avercamp.
https://www.google.nl/search?q=breughel+winterlandschap&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3CjDUd3qHYmKtAa9gYGwDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=959
Maybe it’s because I’m Dutch, like Avercamp, that he was the first to cross my mind. But the Breughels are more famous in the rest of the world
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That part of Europe does seem conducive to that kind of image… :-)
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This part of Europe lived through what is known as the little ice age during that time, with pretty strong winters. The kind that we here in the Netherlands, speed skating addicted as we are, can now only dream of. And there is a lot of water here in the Low Countries. Combine the two and you get loads of opportunities two paint pictures like that every year for several centuries.
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It wasn’t just in winter, though. Many small figures doing a variety of things in a landscape, summer or winter, seems to be almost a genre of Flemish and Dutch painting of that period…
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True, and not almost a genre. It wás a genre.
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Quite so! :-)
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