By Vladimir Brezina
A few photos I managed to capture on Saturday in Manhattan’s Central Park before my fingers started freezing—
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Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Ice, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Snow, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Winter.
In NYC, meteorological Winter has been with us for quite some time. And with tomorrow’s Winter Solstice, astronomical Winter starts as well. But there is a silver lining—even though the coldest days are yet to come, from today the day length will steadily increase toward Spring…
In the meantime, Happy Winter!
However, for reasons that can’t be gainsaid, we are off to Florida for a week’s paddling, in regions that even WordPress cannot reach… Happy Holidays, and see y’all when we get back!
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Snow, Snowman, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
It’s snowing! The first real snow of the winter. Quick, everyone out into the park before it melts!
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In Central Park, NYC, yesterday.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Snow, Snow Storm
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Let There Be Light! Our first response was here, but here’s another, quite different take on the theme…
Little pools of light in the gathering darkness… The lamps come on in NYC’s Central Park on a snowy night.
February 8, 2013. More photos are here. And yet a third interpretation of “Let There Be Light!” is here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, Lamp, Let There Be Light!, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Snow, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
Yesterday afternoon in New York City’s Central Park (click on any photo to start slideshow)—
More photos are here.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
On Sunday at sunset I went out into Central Park. The Fall colors that I wanted to photograph were still sparse.
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On the other hand, on a beautiful warm evening, the park was buzzing with activity—
By Vladimir Brezina
After the stasis of deep Summer, when NYC’s Central Park remains, it would seem forever, darkly lush and green, there are now unmistakable signs of the end. It’s still sunny and warm, and busy insects are still feeding from the late-summer flowers. But new colors are appearing here and there, as the days now with increasing rapidity take us into Fall…
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These and a few more photos are here.
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Fall, Fall Colors, Insects, New York City, Photography, Summer
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Dance.
You see all kinds of things in NYC’s Central Park…
(Last Fall, just a week or so after this…)
Posted in Photography
Tagged Central Park, Dance, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Spring has finally sprung in New York City. But we’ll miss it this year. We are far away, about to embark on an exciting (hopefully not too exciting!) week-long kayak trip. No Internet, so Wind Against Current will be unattended for a while… Watch this space when we return!
Fortunately, I took a few photos of New York’s spring before we left…
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, New York City, Photography, Spring, Spring Blossoms
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is A Day in My Life.
Last Saturday, toward evening, I took a walk through NYC’s Central Park.
First I visited our patch of ground. And on that patch, which we had picked for being so unremarkable, a crop of colorful crocuses had sprung up…
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A few more photos are here.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged A Day in My Life, Central Park, Flowers, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2013, Spring, Weekly Photo Challenge
... 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.
... 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.
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