By Vladimir Brezina
What good is a roof if you don’t go up there now and again to watch the sunset over the city?
And as it happens, On Top was this week’s Photo Challenge…
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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 pictures!
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Thanks! :-)
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What a fabulous series of pictures! Breathtaking!
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Nature gets all (well, most of) the credit :-)
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Reblogged this on Locating Frankenstein's Brain.
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Thanks!
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Really cool shots!
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Thanks, Rob!
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I especially like the first and the last pictures with their greater definition of the dark, grumbling clouds and the cityscapes, but they’re all wonderful!
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I was hoping the clouds would part just a little bit more :-)
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Stunning shots Vladimir! The clouds today were amazing in NJ as well! I went out at sunset also and yes, the clouds blocked out the sun’s final descent but the clouds were beautiful. Thank you for going up on the roof and giving us a treat!
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Many days have great sunsets, but I am not in the right place at the right time, or I don’t have my camera, or something… This time it all came together! :-)
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Look at that view! It may be a drive to get the boats in the water but what a spot to live!
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We don’t go up to the roof often enough… :-)
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oh man, now this is just not fair!! I wish I was there! :)
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I am sure you have great sunsets too! :-)
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Breathtaking!
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It is, up there… :-)
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Nothing like a glorious sunset on a glorious city, thanks for the share loved looking at them those photos :-)
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You are most welcome—thank you!!
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Agreed! Great shots.
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Thank you!!
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Spectacular. How high was the building where you stood, watching the sunset?
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It’s about 30 stories. There are somewhat taller buildings around, and of course higher buildings downtown, so I wasn’t literally on top of all New York—but high enough :-)
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Awesome view!
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It was!
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Wonderful sunset captures, Vlad. :)
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Thank you! :-)
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Such an exquisite sunset. Rarely have I seen a sunset that is bright yellow or close to yellow – most of the time the sunsets here in Melbourne are orange or red. Oh yes, if there’s a roof with a good view, it’s always worth going up there to enjoy a bit of our beautiful world :)
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Well, the exact colors are in the eye of the beholder—or the camera, and the computer monitor… ;-)
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Oh yes…the computer monitor shows us different colours. It can be deceiving. Nonetheless, I’m inclined to believe the sun shots you took are indeed stunning :)
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Thank you! :-)
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Vlad, good city views. For some reason, I’m being blocked from clicking “Like” on your W blog. Maybe you know how I can fix that.
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I’ve had that problem a few times too, and it’s usually been a browser issue. I use Firefox, which occupies more and more memory as I browse more and more sites, and eventually slows down dramatically. With the amount of browsing I do, I find that I have to restart it at least every few days.
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Hey! I’ve been noticing that exact thing. But if I complained you’d just tell me it was a “weird Mac issue”. :-).
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Was this last night? A friend of mine in Brooklyn posted some pics on his Facebook page; he said the sky last night was intense.
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Yes, this was last night (Wednesday). It was a good sunset, but not the most spectacular. There were too many clouds that didn’t really allow the sun to break through at sunset—I was hoping for more light on the city and on the higher clouds themselves. It was very windy, especially above the 30th floor :-)
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i love sunsets! and they say the most dramatic ones are driven by clouds. your photos are just gorgeous! they’re spectacular!! :)
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Yes, you definitely need clouds! Sunsets without clouds, just orange and blue, are just too generic, each one the same…
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Boom.
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:-)
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wow wow…. captivating
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:-) Thank you!
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Brilliant glow… Love the city… Miss it, but not the cold…
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It’s warming up—soon it will be too hot! :-)
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I love NY! :-)
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So do we… ;-)
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