By Vladimir Brezina
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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 
I loved these water shots. I have tried but haven’t come up with anything like these. Maybe because we don’t have fall. Truly artistic.
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A lot of these effects are courtesy of the JPEG compression algorithm implemented by the camera that I used to take most of these photos—normally undesirable effects, but they can be used to advantage.
And it helps to have a kayak… ;-)
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A true artist – knows what technique to use and when
And yes, the kayak probably helps.
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Love the play of colors! Stunning!
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Thanks!!
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Lovely colours! Some of them look like some abstract paintings.
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That’s what inspired this post… These are actually just odd corners of photos that, viewed full-frame, are realistic and actually in most cases quite boring, so that I would normally not look at them twice :-)
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Very creative, I like it and the result :)
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Lovely. Pretty as a painting!
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:-)
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Water is amazing. In any shape! And your photos are wonderful!
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Thank you so much! :-)
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Very inspiring, Vladimir. Gorgeous. :)
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Always happy to be providing inspiration—thanks, Inge! :-)
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Natural water colors are so beautiful! :)
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Indeed they are—even Photoshop can’t do them justice! ;-)
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These are beautiful. They remind me a little of Monet’s water lily paintings.
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:-) Thanks, Colline!
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Very nice!
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Thank you!
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Beautiful Vlad!
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Thank you!! :-)
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Really?! Or are these paintings? So, so beautiful.
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Photographs :-)
Thanks, Randee!!
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Love the ones with the reds and blues. They look like abstract art paintings, which normally do nothing for me. But knowing these are photographs… of fall foliage and water… — amazing!
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Does it make a difference, knowing? :-)
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Yes! Anyone can smear some oil paints on a canvas, but only an ocean kayaker with a good eye can take photos like that.
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:-) :-)
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Impressive and beautiful. Thank you!
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You are most welcome! :-)
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Thanks for these Vlad! Away for October. We missed Fall. Very soothing!
George
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Down here, Fall is pretty much still happening… Thanks, George!
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They look like impressionists paintings…Monet would be happy….
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That’s high praise—thank you!!
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Gorgeous! I also have been trying to capture the not so crisp look in my reflections :)
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I often find the not-so-crisp look to be easier than the crisp look, unfortunately ;-)
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:) aha I may be older and more patient :) now I am digging the Monet look :)
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all could be paintings…
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:-)
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Great images. To me some of them look like the abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter.
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I see what you mean… thanks for reminding me of him, Suzanne!
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So very beautiful, thanks for the post.
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You are very welcome! :-)
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Wow… Awesome. I love the abstract nature of these images.
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That’s what I was trying to achieve… Thanks so much!!
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stunning
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Thank you!!
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Stunning stuff.
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Thank you!!
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A great theme and great shots!
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So glad you like it—thank you! :-)
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wow! your fall water gallery is simply beautiful! the colors are spectacular! your cover photo reminds me of monet’s impressions during his late years. thank you for sharing!
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High praise indeed! Thank you so much!! :-)
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I love colorful reflections like these in the water, especially when you add a few ripples.
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A few ripples are good, but too many break up the image too much. It’s hard to add just the right number… :-)
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That’s when you have to tell the ducks to take it easy swimming on the water!
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And the wind to stop blowing…
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That’s true! Mother Nature has plenty of resources to mess up your pictures when she wants to.
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Those photos are absolutely beautiful. Monet et al would be proud of you. (One bad thing about seeing so many great photos is that I run out of words to describe them…even with the help of a thesaurus and good vocabulary!) :-)
janet
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Well, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words…
Thanks so much, Janet!! :-)
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Then you have a book-ful of lovely words in this post and I’ll let the photos speak. (If I responded with a picture, would that work???)
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Can’t beat a good picture for a response! :-)
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Beautiful impressionistic photos :) I’m guessing these images had your full uncomplicated attention. Unlike Johna’s grocery evening filled with a moment of blockades.
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I think Johna’s experience also had her undivided attention, eventually… we often paddle past Rikers Island, but have no wish to actually spend the night there ;-)
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I love the ripple effect, they look like beautiful abstracts.
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Thank you… :-)
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Magical ….
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Thanks, Isadora! :-)
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