By Vladimir Brezina
The first dropped ice cream of Spring on Fifth Avenue—
In response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Spring!, and Ailsa’s travel theme, Close-up. The first response was 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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Reblogged this on Locating Frankenstein's Brain.
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Thanks for reblogging!
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Great shot!
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Thanks, George! :-)
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How did you decide on the orientation?
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That’s just the way it was… ;-)
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Great idea!
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Thank you!!
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Sad, but hahahahaha! Way to grab hold of a photo-op! :)
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It wasn’t my ice cream, if that’s what you are thinking ;-)
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Dropped ice cream is ALWAYS sad, no matter to whom it once belonged. But I am very glad to know it wasn’t yours.
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I always think that too, every time I see a little boy or girl drop his or her ice cream…
If it had been mine, I would have made sure to drop it a little more artistically… :-)
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That deserves a prize. If you were me I’d choose and ice cream. Great shot. Beautifully spotted and captured.
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Why thank you! I’ll buy myself an ice cream as my prize… :-)
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Brilliantly observed…
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Thank you! :-)
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now this was just cool. simple, artsy – and feels spring like – three stars my friend. :)
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Three stars? I will treasure them :-) Thank you so much!!
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Awesome photo! I’m kinda worried about the person who ate the icecream though – lots of weird colouring chemicals roaming about inside them.
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Yes, I was thinking that this might have been an ice cream best dropped…
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ha ha :-) … although it didn’t look as though there was much left.
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If I’d dropped it myself, I would have left a lot more—to make a better photo and probably also because I couldn’t stand the taste :-)
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:-) I can’t quite imagine what “food” that shade of blue (or green) could possibly taste like, but I’m guessing it’s not something I’d go for!
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Oh, the taste has nothing to do with the color—they are quite different chemicals… :-)
But I remember liking things like that when I was little. Don’t you? My father could only shake his head…
When I was a child, I thought as a child…
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Don’t they try to “colour-code” processed foods so that like yellow coloured food will “taste” like pineapple or lemon (rather than spinach, or mushrooms)? But you’re right; I probably liked bright coloured food as a child. I certainly remembered liking pink and red jellybeans. I tried a couple recently and they tasted different (for whatever reason).
I’d hate to totally give up childish ways though :-)
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Processed foods are one thing, but the flavors in ice cream are quite another. There is no banana, say, or cherry, in there at all, processed or otherwise. Instead, they’ve tried to reproduce the natural flavor with just one chemical. Sometimes it’s close (banana), but more often not (strawberry, cherry…).
Yes, those childish things keep coming back…
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:-( the more I learn about the food industry, the more I appreciate old-fashioned, homemade, raw, etc. I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s ‘In Defense of Food’ and I love his suggestion that if Grandma wouldn’t recognise it as food, don’t eat it. Not sure if that quite works with ice-cream though.
Thanks for enlightening me :-)
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I certainly can see—and taste!—the difference between food and “edible foodlike substances” :-)
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Great concept. Funnily I have a similar photograph with almost identical ice cream colours but with less distribution of disappointment. Regards Peet
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Poisonous Blue #5 and Vicious Red #3 are standard ice cream colors, used worldwide… ;-)
Thanks, Peet!
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Love the framed abstract view! Well spotted
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Thank you! :-)
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wow!
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:-) Thank you!!
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“Coney Island” flavour? :D
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Very likely! :-)
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