By Vladimir Brezina


From the 2013 Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Orange.
By Vladimir Brezina


From the 2013 Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Orange.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Brooklyn, Coney Island, Mermaid Parade, New York City, Orange, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
On an overcast, dull winter day in NYC’s Central Park, there is not much color and nothing moves—except squirrels!
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
And who knew that the word “squirrel” was so hard to pronounce? See here—
So, for days now, Johna and I have been saying “skvirel” to each other :-)
Posted in Culture, Humor, Nature, New York City
Tagged Animals, Central Park, Humor, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Pronunciation, Squirrel
By Vladimir Brezina
Another oldie but goodie… The red leaf conforms to the Rule of Thirds, and there is some colorful bokeh in the background—as requested by this week’s Photo Challenge, Rule of Thirds.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Fall Colors, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Rule of Thirds, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Here are a few shots from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where we escaped for a few days from NYC’s bone-chilling cold. (Of course, the cold was there waiting for us when we got back; the coldest day in recent memory is today.)
Some of these shots conform to the Rule of Thirds, this week’s Photo Challenge—even though I never consider this rule when shooting, and don’t like such rules in general :-)
Posted in Photography, Sports
Tagged Photography, Pool, postaweek, postaweek2015, Rule of Thirds, Swimmer, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
An oldie but goodie—
A second contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Symmetry (the first contribution was here).
And, of course, Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Pelicans, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Symmetry, Valentine's Day, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
These birds have a great sense of translational symmetry—
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Symmetry. A second contribution is here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Birds, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Symmetry, Synchronized, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
In the early spring, crocuses are just details in the bare landscape—
and yet, on closer inspection, each flower reveals among its petals a host of insects, each a detailed world of its own—

(more photos are here)
This was in early March 2012, a year in which spring came very early. Let’s hope that, in spite of some groundhogs’ predictions, it comes soon this year too…
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed Photo Challenge, Details, and also a second contribution to The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge, Scale. The first contribution was here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Crocuses, Details, Insects, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Spring, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.And the great fleas, themselves, in turn
Have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still,
And greater still, and so on.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Scale.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Beach, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Scale, Sea Shells, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Adobe Photoshop certainly makes nice panoramas. Here’s a 180-degree panorama of NYC’s frozen Central Park Reservoir, stitched together from 10 individual photos.
I haven’t posted many panoramas on Wind Against Current, because the results have always seemed unsatisfactory. The panoramas are long and narrow, and so unimpressive when wedged into the 500-pixel width of our page. You can always click on the panorama to expand it (try it on the panorama above), but even so…
How about presenting the panorama this way?
All you have to do is rotate your device 90 degrees, and scroll through ;-)
Maybe this will start a trend—but I wouldn’t count on it. :-)
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park Reservoir, Manhattan, New York City, Panorama, Photography, Winter