By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Wood.
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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 
Beautiful grains of the wood…as though I could touch them.
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Thank you!!
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Beautiful photos of engrossing grains. The texture is palpable.
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:-) Thank you!
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Bleached pine (?) looking like some exotic material from the studio of an ArtDeco super crafts person. Extraordinarily beautiful.
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In reality, it was just a weathered park bench (on which we afterwards sat to eat lunch). Not sure about the kind of wood…
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Confess if relevant, Vladimir: are these extraordinary shots enhanced?
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I made a whole range of these with different degrees of color saturation. These are more saturated that what came out of the camera. (Of course, many cameras—especially point-and-shoots, which this was—process the image in their own ways right at the start, whether you like it or not.) At the other extreme, I have B&W versions of these which are also quite nice… :-)
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beautiful…
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Thank you! :-)
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Reblogged this on Locating Frankenstein's Brain.
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Thanks for reblogging!
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Like a painting, beautiful!
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Thank you, Amy!!
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Beautiful choices!
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Thank you!!
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If only they could talk, what stories they would tell!
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True enough! Although, most recently, mostly of the butts that have sat on them ;-) Where is Hans Christian Andersen when you need him?
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I love your choice!
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Thank you!!
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SUPER!
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Thanks!!
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