By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Community.
After many hours of lonely paddling, it’s a treat to meet up with paddling friends for an impromptu lunch…
(We’ve almost written up that trip—stay tuned!)
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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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Such fun to be active with friends. Lunch always tastes so much better.
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We don’t usually get out of our boats to eat lunch, so this was a special occasion :-)
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That looks like a very cosy lunch indeed :-)
All the best,
Hanna
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It was very civilized—we even had a picnic table!
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Looks like a relaxing moment with people who enjoy being on the water.
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It certainly was that! Thanks so much :-)
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What a great paddling community.
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Yes, it is!! :-)
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Bella!
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Thank you! :-)
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That WAS fun! So glad to commune with you :) We were just getting around to writing about that adventure ourselves. Stay tuned…and stay warm! Snowy weekend ahead. Might just stay indoors and catch up on the “drafts” backlog for once. Unless it isn’t all that windy after all…hmmm.
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Yes, I think we’ll do much the same. It’s definitely a good weekend for catching up on overdue blog posts! I am pretty sure we’ll manage to finish writing up our wonderful Great Hudson Paddle this weekend… only two months late! But that’s nothing—unfortunately we have much older half-finished posts :-(
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Thank you– that certainly makes us feel better, knowing we’re in good backlogged-blogger company. Why, it even fits perfectly into the “community” theme, LOL
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Think of it this way: The longer you delay the post, the more those boring, inconsequential details recede and a more colorful and dramatic shape of things emerges. Life is transmuted to art! ;-)
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Perhaps… but we still look like a couple of geeks in orange hats! :)
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A pleasant way to brighten another cold, gray morning! Lunch on the water always a treat and this occasion was special. We paddle alone so often delightful to make so many new friends in one day on the water. High & dry these days, river in Albany barely above freezing and winter arrives next week. Maybe in spring we could meet at Plum Point for a run through the Highlands….or somewhere else.
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Thanks, Michael! We are in the same boat (so to speak) and so this was a delightful occasion—the first of many, I trust! Let’s plan for the spring… :-)
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Wow! envious of this ‘community’ shot :D
Nice shot indeed!
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Such a shot is only possible once the community is all assembled, however, and assembling kayakers all in one place is like herding cats ;-)
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A really fun pic for the challenge, Vlad. :)
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Thanks!! :-)
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the community is warm and the water is blue. i like it :)
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Great! Thanks, Brad!!
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How fun! I love the smiles on everyone’s faces! :-)
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It was a fun day—writeup and the rest of the photos coming up very soon! :-)
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Looking forward to your post! :)
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A photo with happy faces. :)
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Always, on the water! :-)
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Yeah! :)
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Neat photo but where’s Vlad? Next time we bring a big mirror to put on the bench to bring him back into the fold.
I’m on the sunny coast of Bahia, Brazil right now, where the idea of a dry suit seems ridiculous but the photo with the seven kayaks (and six people) is a reminder that the sometimes cold and not so wild Hudson has a warmth and richness beyond the vagaries of its physical presence.
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My shadow is there! That’s how I often appear in my photos… ;-)
The Hudson can be a warm and rich place, and it was so especially on this occasion, for us too. (Writeup with many more photos almost done!). But there is a limit. Next week we too are decamping to Florida.
Enjoy Brazil, David, and let’s get together when we all get back!
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