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2013 50 comments posted in nature photography tagged buds fall leaves magnolia new photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 travel weekly photo challenge christmas lights posted on december 30 2012 by vladimir brezina 48 comments by vladimir brezina we always get our christmas tree only a day or two before christmas barely hours before the christmas tree vendors in the streets pack up for their migration back north we do this not just because we procrastinate we do but because johna follows an older tradition according to wikipedia traditionally christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until christmas eve 24 december or in the traditions celebrating christmas eve rather than on the first of day of christmas 23 december and then removed the day after twelfth night 5 january to have a tree up before or after these dates was even considered bad luck so even as our neighbors christmas trees are already out in the street for removal our tree is only now reaching the peak of its transient glory 48 comments posted in life tagged christmas christmas tree christmas tree candles photography weekly photo challenge our 2012 in pictures posted on december 28 2012 by vladimir brezina 74 comments by vladimir brezina the last weekly photo challenge of 2012 is my 2012 in pictures it s been impossible to select the best photos there are just too many photos to look through i ve posted more than 2 000 on this blog in 2012 and it takes more resolution than i am capable of at the moment to cull them severely it s like killing your children so here are by no means the best photos of 2012 but just 12 one for each month that in future years may remind johna and me of some of the memorable stories of 2012 january an aborted kayak trip turns into an unexpected adventure on the streets of red hook brooklyn february brown pelicans perform a pas de deux near st petersburg florida march early crocuses and insects in nyc s central park april we visit the 9 11 memorial manhattan may johna s open water kayak training in rhode island photo by john ozard june manhattan island marathon swim july we land on the north shore of long island during our kayak circumnavigation of the island august sunrise over the ocean in key biscayne florida september great north river tugboat race competition in new york harbor october even rats drowned during hurricane sandy november fall colors in nyc s central park december conch emerges from its shell on st petersburg beach florida the stories and more photos are here january red hook an unexpected adventure february pas de deux march spring has sprung seemingly april in memoriam may where the wild rocks are rock gardening in rhode island june manhattan island marathon swim 2012 follow the red herring july long island kayak circumnavigation day 8 independence day august key biscayne sunrise september we re off to the tugboat races october sandy saga part 4 november images of fall december emergence we hope that 2013 will turn out to be equally memorable and picturesque 74 comments posted in photography tagged 2012 photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 weekly photo challenge happy solstice festive holidays posted on december 21 2012 by vladimir brezina 47 comments by vladimir brezina this morning we passed the solstice of december 21 2012 otherwise known as 13 0 0 0 0 and we can be cautiously optimistic i am on the whole an optimist that the world as we know it will continue so it seems safe to wish everyone a happy winter or summer as it may be and festive holidays and safe to respond to ailsa s photo challenge which this week very appropriately is festive 47 comments posted in life photography tagged festive photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 solstice weekly photo challenge winter weekly photo challenge surprise posted on december 21 2012 by vladimir brezina 44 comments by vladimir brezina this week s photo challenge is surprise kayaking around new york harbor we see many surprising things and one of the most surprising hidden in a narrow brooklyn creek is the wreck of an entire respectably sized submarine the yellow submarine of brooklyn has a fascinating history involving a crazy but surprisingly well developed scheme to salvage valuables from a famous sunken ocean liner that i ve already written up here and here so i ll just post a few photos 44 comments posted in kayaking new york city photography tagged kayaking new york harbor photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 submarine surprise weekly photo challenge yellow submarine emergence posted on december 20 2012 by vladimir brezina 86 comments by vladimir brezina like a sea anemone or simple snail there cautiously unfolds emerges what i am philip larkin best society but contrary to larkin the best society is not always solitude st pete beach florida december 2012 86 comments posted in literature nature tagged emergence florida philip larkin photography poetry snail unfolding travel theme transportation posted on december 17 2012 by vladimir brezina 39 comments by vladimir brezina ailsa s travel themed photo challenge this week is transportation it s amazing how much stuff can be transported in a sea kayak when setting out on a kayak expedition there s no need to leave the creature comforts at home compared to a multiday backpacking or bicycle trip a sea kayak expedition is a positively luxurious experience until each morning when all that stuff has to be fitted back into the kayaks we put off the packing as long as we possibly can and stand around drinking coffee it s such a relief to have the last bag in the boat to snap on the sprayskirt and push off into new waters photos from our 2011 albany to new york trip and our 2012 long island circumnavigation 39 comments posted in kayaking photography tagged kayak camping kayak expeditions photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 sea kayaking transportation travel weekly photo challenge weekly photo challenge delicate posted on december 15 2012 by vladimir brezina 104 comments by vladimir brezina this week s photo challenge is delicate flowers of course but also the way insects hold on to them right way up or upside down with a delicate touch continue reading 104 comments posted in nature photography tagged delicate flowers insects photography postaday postaweek postaweek2012 weekly photo challenge lilies posted on december 12 2012 by vladimir brezina 40 comments by vladimir brezina 40 comments posted in nature photography tagged flowers lilies photography on being athletic posted on december 10 2012 by johna till johnson 29 comments by johna till johnson photos by vladimir brezina quite the athlete in six inches of water i m not athletic or at least i never thought i was true i d been on a couple of teams when i was young fencing swimming and been told i had potential but the formative comment on my athletic abilities came from a gymnastics coach when i was 8 she hasn t got it by it he meant kinesthetic sense that ability to know exactly where your body is and what it s doing at every moment it s an ability that s foundational for most athletic endeavors the coach was right i didn t have it and i could see its lack in my everyday life i fell off things or tripped and landed face forward my lower lip has been split so many times my dentist is in awe of the scar tissue especially early on i could drive my kayak coaches to despair with my inability to understand basic movements move the blade up johna no up johna just look at me so i internalized that lack and for a while it defined me i had many other strengths but no kinesthetic sense or so i thought here s what i didn t know then and know now kinesthetic sense and with it athletic ability can be learned sure there are prodigies who have it at birth and many more in whom it develops rapidly with just a minimum of encouragement like other human abilities athletic talent appears to be distributed along a spectrum but for those of us on the don t have it end of the spectrum it s possible to develop it by thinking about your body what it does and how it moves a revelatory moment came last year when i was taking crossfit classes the coach was a wool cap wearing tattooed guy in his 20s with interesting facial hair and the wiry body of a professional skateboarder there s one fundamental athletic motion he told me and demonstrated it driving your body upwards using your legs as a spring straightening your bent knees and driving from your heels learning to kayak surf before developing my kinesthetic sense damn if he wasn t right it s the classical motion of kayaking driving your heels forward to propel the boat forward with your strokes but you also see it in practically every other sport from basketball to golf to rock climbing to get it right everything has to be in proper alignment heels knees back shoulders and even the positions of your toes and your neck matter crossfit taught me to pay attention to form because the coaches encouraged us to do weighted squats and if you do squats with poor form you blow out your knees and potentially create insurance liabilities for the crossfit gym good coaches are therefore dogmatic about teaching you the right form so i spent hours watching myself in the mirror lifting weights and struggling with chinups and situps i d shut my eyes and try to feel where my knees toes and shoulders were then open my eyes and see how close i d guessed the attention to form paid off in kayaking suddenly i made progress in areas that had been baffling to me in the past and the more i thought about where my body was and what it was doing the better i got i recently took up barefoot running which is all about proper form you have to think about curving your toes up you want to land on the balls of your feet shift your weight to your toes and then to your heels and you need to keep your neck relaxed and your shoulders back and use that fundamental athletic motion to drive yourself along and for once in my life i ve found an athletic activity that s easy for me that attention to form feels natural innate no i m not fast but my goal isn t to be fast if i m moving i m going as fast as i need to my goal is to develop the form and motion that will allow me to run as much as i want and i don t know how much that will be yet practicing my low brace form don t want to fall into the gowanus canal what s even more interesting though is how the whole experience has changed how i move my body in everyday life i find myself doing the drive when i get up from a chair or instinctively adjusting my balance as i climb the stairs thinking about whether my center of gravity is over my heels or my toes and my movements have gotten more graceful and confident like those of the natural athletes i know i doubt that having a kinesthetic sense will ever be instinctive for me and the coach was undoubtedly right i would likely never have made it to the upper echelons of gymnastics but the fact that as an adult i can acquire it is eye opening to me if someone who hasn t got it can become athletic what other seemingly impossible things might be possible after all 29 comments posted in life sports tagged athletic exercise kinesthetic sense sports older posts copyright wind against current by vladimir brezina and johna till johnson is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivs 3 0 unported license search search for 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 our links johna s technology research vlad s photos vlad s scientific research recent posts a meditation on gratitude november 26 2025 the first leg june 6 2023 looks like they made it june 5 2023 more scenes from the northcountry may 30 2023 r2ak scenes from the northern lands may 29 2023 halfway there may 29 2023 and they re off may 28 2023 team trimoron heads west may 26 2023 sheltering at sea part 3 staten island to atlantic city june 28 2021 sheltering at sea part 2 escape from new york june 14 2021 sheltering at sea part 1 taking the leap june 7 2021 night on hart island may 30 2021 happy birthday vlad june 1 2020 solo trip to the yellow submarine may 26 2020 sail and sky composition may 20 2020 recent comments johna till johnson on where we like to land on sandy canada to key west p on a bizarre boating eunice miller on a meditation on gratitude harry on a meditation on gratitude johna till johnson on a meditation on gratitude 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