By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Carefree.
In New York City, carefree is still pretty intense.
From this years Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Another Carefree post is here.
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... 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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This is too goos man. Love it.
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:-) Thanks!!
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I like those dancers so much!!! I did Carnival Parade for Carefree Yea! Parades ;)
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I saw! Love you photos, especially the first one :-) Thanks, Carol!!
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dancing in the street….. I love your pictures! Congratulations.
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It’s a natural for “Carefree”… Thanks so much!!
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Dancing in the streets! Nice.
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Thanks so much, Sheri! :-)
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It looks like they were having fun :)
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And they were really good, too :-)
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Great! I can really feel it in these pictures!
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It was in the air! :-)
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I want to be them!
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Or at least them at that moment—who knows what their problems are when they are not, for the moment, carefree… ;-)
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They certainly have no cares about appearances!!! ;-)
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And precisely for that reason, they looked really cool!! :-)
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It doesn’t get any more carefree than “dancing in the streets”! Love it.
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:-) Thanks!!
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Fantastic! I love it!
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Thank you!! :-)
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Now that’s a party!
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One of NYC’s biggest of the year! :-)
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Oh goodness, they look like they’re having a blast. Love it! :)
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Don’t know what they had been smoking ;-)
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Some serious carefreeness you have here Vlad. Well captured,
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New Yorkers do take their carefreeness very seriously! :-) Thanks, Dan!
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Wonderful entry for the challenge!. They reminds me of the Lee Ann Womack song “I Hope You Dance” and the quote “Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.”
I’m going to Coney Island this weekend; looking for my carefree moments. :-)
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Glad to have stimulated some carefree associations… Enjoy the rest of the summer before the cares return! :-)
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Street fair? Great shots! We used to go to the ones in the North End in Boston when we lived there. There was dancing in the streets, but mostly some very serious eating :-)
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Not exactly a street fair… a parade, but a very, very special one :-)
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how fun!
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It was!
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What a fun fun direction to take with this challenge – Love it!
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Thanks so much! :-)
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So funny – great response to the challenge
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Thanks!!
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Awesome!
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Thank you! :-)
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I always look forward to your pics – there is usually different perspective to enjoy :)
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:-)
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Well…yes it is!
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:-)
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Music plays in their heads even when there’s none …. love it.
Was there music? I don’t see instruments. They all look like they’re having FUN and are pretty CAREFREE about it.
Good entry ….
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This was at the end of this year’s Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
There was plenty of music of all kinds in the parade—indeed, music was one of the unexpected highlights—and the last official floats had music blasting… and after they had passed, ordinary New Yorkers climbed over the barriers and followed. So there was music still audible, and most certainly in the air… :-)
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Loved Coney Island when I was little. Sounds like it was fun … fun … fun.
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The pressures are there to commercialize and homogenize Coney Island, like everything else (think Times Square), but New York has a way of resisting… and this parade is one of the best examples of that! :-)
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Thank you! These photos made me smile. “You have to dance like no one is watching!”
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Well, in NYC everybody studiously pretends to be ignoring what everybody else around them is doing… but also can’t bear the thought of performing and not being watched :-)
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