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In November 2021 I was invited to take photos of a big rocket launch by a space startup in the Mojave Desert in California. I took the opportunity to travel that region. On Sunday I drove up north on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Near Bishop is a small Alpine lake called North Lake. The trees already lost the leaves at this time of the year, so no fall colors. There was no wind, so the lake was very calm, perfect for a reflection shot.
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I was lucky to get a fairly clean shot of this female foraging in the wet grasslands that was dense with this lush green grass everywhere. She was too close to get a complete reflection shot.
It would be remiss of me to have a week of taking reflection shots and not include a puddle reflection. The English weather obliged today and so I quickly went out and snapped a shot!
We were so fortunate to be in one of our favorite places in the world, Merritt island, Florida on a perfect early morning with birds all around us. The conditions here could not have been better for a reflection shot and this Great Blue Heron provided a perfect subject to photograph in these conditions:)
We have been making the most of the late summer weather down in the S Hams which has been ideal for reflection shots as the wind has been quite light. This is the view from Noss Mayo across to Newton Ferrers.
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Torquay at the beginning of August 2019. I went back to Torquay harbour a couple of times on my recent trip to Devon, hoping the wind would die down enough to get a reflection shot. The sun was shining as well so I was doubly rewarded.
This morning I ventured out with Darren Blight Photography for sunrise at Plymouth Barbican. Setting my alarm for 5am I crawled out of bed and made the short drive into town.
It's not very often I venture out in the city for any photography, but it looked like the perfect morning for some reflection shots and we did get a nice bit of colour in the sky just before sunrise.
This is the first in a series of shots from this morning, I've got a fair few that I actually like!!
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at the pub, while I killed time before the haircut.
Grabbed some reflection shots while he was busy on the phone.
If only flickr allowed animations, the burst mode on the phone captured some cool movement here.
On my way to find a parking spot in Yosemite Valley to wait and watch the Horsetail Fall phenomena, I had to stop at the edge of the Merced River to take a reflection shot! I am addicted to the beauty in Yosemite National Park!
I think that I had seen pics of this bridge before, but didn't know what I was looking at. This is the first view you get of it and it's a jaw dropper. The only thing that I found on it was that it's three stories tall and people who are NOT me like to jump from it which astounds me considering the multitude of volcanic rock up and down the Lewis River. I saw very few people here, but doing some research discovered that this place is packed in the summer with sunbathers and swimmers. Elke asked me if I got a reflection shot and I had to laugh. the river is at flood stage and is a raging torrent of green and white water roaring past with a vengeance right now, it was amazing. :-)
A walk by the Thames this morning, not much of a sunrise but it was sure quiet and serene. Oh and very very green! Couldn't resist a reflection shot making use of the cloud cover that hid the sunrise. No HDR just a lot of dynamic range on the A99 sensor which gave me lots to play with. Uncropped and just tweaked in Lightroom to bring out the colours.
This is for Emmanuelle, who prefers my reflection shots vertical, but I thought I'd try a reverse first! Up and down is a track by John Lee Hooker and is perfect! Because the headland at Whitmore stairs is a similar shape from both sides it took me a while to realise this was inverted!
The Okotoks "Big Rock" a large Glacial erratic located about 500km from it's original location in Jasper National Park. I had never seen this Big Rock with the spring melt and rain pools before and I was determined to get a reflection shot, I literally got 3 bracketed shots off and the wind started to blow! The reflection went away of course:( This shot was the darkest of my brackets
On my way home from Harrisburg today, I made my first ever stop at the B&P yard and Dubois. I was hoping to see more than just this one unit in the yard, but it was positioned perfectly for a reflection shot. First time ever seeing the B&P.
You see the beautiful cresta lake and its reflection. shot on our hiking trip today ;)
Cresta Lake, Flims, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Wheeling & Lake Erie 291 throttles out of a stop in Copley, Ohio with former Rio Grande SD40T-2 5391 in command. On a boring straightaway with no foreground or background components to work with, I was lucky to find this puddle to spice things up and get that good 'ol reflection shot of a Rio Grande tunnel motor in its original paint pulling a road train in 2020.
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Marina Park, Alviso, CA
While taking train reflection shot, I was so fortunate to see solar halo in the sky.
在等待拍攝火車倒影時，十分幸運地碰到了日暈。
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A long exposure of a roll on/roll off vehicle carrier moored up in Southampton docks.
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More of a wide-angle shot. The swans were annoying as they kept approaching for food and ruining any chances of getting still reflection shots in the harbour :-)
My attempt at the classic reflection shot of Vestrahorn, in southeast Iceland. I had to use long exposures to help flatten the receding waves. I also had to be in the water in my hiking boots to get this shot so that more reflection can be seen. I shot this image with my 16-35 f4 IS L lens at F11 on my tripod.
Its been raining non-stop which is a good thing because ive been wanting to take more water and reflection shots....This picture was taken on the way to college...
You can only take these kinds of pictures for a few weeks here as the rice fields are flooded without the rice growing yet. They offer a great chance to capture some rare reflection shots.
I am a sucker for reflections and when I see a potentially good reflection shot, I stop and wait for the exact image I want. This Tricolored Heron went onto different poses and I waited to get him and his reflection broadside and no other light interference.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EF300mm f/4L IS USM, f/8, 1/800, ISO 1000.
Taken in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, the gentle breeze dropped long enough to allow this reflection shot to be taken.
1Q67 York Holgate to Wigan North Western. Class 37 in Colas Railfreight livery sits under the roof at Manchester Victoria station awaiting the signal for departure. After grabbing the normal front three quarters shot and knowing its sits for 10 minutes to allow an ECS move in front to clear I decided to take a wander down the platform and see if anything else caught my eye. Using a long glass panel, I thought I would go for some sort of reflection shot but in the low lighting and glass being covered in Northern Rail stickers it looked a bit naff so decided just to flip the composition and create this image. Some may like it some may hate it but it's art, as the saying goes "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
Streetsville (Mississauga). My friend, Steve Maxwell, took me out to get some practice with his XT. I'm going to buy either an XTi or the new Canon 450 that will appear within the next few months.
Flowers by the duck-pond at Castle Bytham. I was setting up for a reflection shot here but of course all the ducks swam over and that was the end of the reflections. :-) You can maybe see the ripples in the water.
Meopta Flexaret camera
Kodak Ektar 100 film
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With recrew C95 now on board, Mingo-Conway turn C65 rolls west through Wellsville, Ohio, on March 6, 2023. The C65 often has issues getting in and out of the traffic jam around Conway, as was the case on this day when they outlawed on their return trip about an hour from Mingo Junction. Heavy rains a couple days before still had the area soaked and provided several opportunities for reflection shots. Luckily there was no wind to blur the reflection at this particular moment!
It's been really still here lately, so last night I decided to go to the wharf area to get some still water reflection shots. I got plenty of those, but then I found these two guys spinning lights around.
It was amazing to watch - almost hypnotic. So I had the pleasure of hanging out with them for a while, with these lights changing colour and direction as they spun around like electrons around a human nucleus.
I always go into a state of mild panic when it happens. "Is it too dark?" I ask myself. "Have I missed any sensor dust blemishes or hot spots among the highlights?" Or, "What about the noise?" It doesn't happen that often of course - after all I do this for myself as a hobby - but just now and again somebody will ask me the terrifying words "Can I buy this please?"
This suddenly happened three times in the space of about nine days recently. Up until then, I hadn't sold so much as a pixel in over twelve months - not that it was particularly troubling me. After all, even though I do have a Picfair page, for which I pay a modest sum each year, I also have a Facebook page with a small number of followers, mostly personal friends, and I'm really not very good at promoting myself. It was those friends who said I should sell my photos - most of whom then never actually made any purchases of course. But for a while I had been thinking that I should refresh my Picfair page and add some new content to the thirty or so images that I'd uploaded in a burst of initial enthusiasm when I'd decided to try and earn a bit of pocket money from my hobby. My other hobby is playing football - imagine the money I could have made if I'd been any good at it! My Instagram page would have a lot more followers too.
And then, in the middle of the week before last, a local company sent me a private message via Instagram. They'd love to have my picture of Goonhilly "Thursday Night at the Listening Station" for their 2024 calendar. I asked them to email me some more details, and then checked them out to make sure I wasn't about to inadvertently hand over my life savings to an international drugs syndicate. They seemed to be legitimate, and when the email came through I was pleasantly surprised to learn that they intended to pay me for my work. And then I looked at the image, taken nearly eighteen months earlier, remembered that it was a long lens photo stack, and that I'd only taken two images to blend at a focal length of 118mm no less. If it was going to be printed and sent to a large number of expectant customers, I was going to need to revisit that blend in fine detail. The image included a long barbed wire fence, receding into the distance against long soft glowing September grasses. This was going to be fun. But a day later, my customer said they were very happy indeed with the result, and asked me for an invoice. Good job I used to be an accountant. Within a few hours, a sum of money had arrived in my bank account. I'm not booking a tour with Mads Peter Iversen to Greenland just yet, but I can take Ali out for a reasonably priced meal on the proceeds. Twice if we don't have a second course.
A couple of days later, an ex colleague, who'd reluctantly relocated away from Cornwall wanted a memento for the walls of her new home and had decided upon a copy of "Bedruthan in the Pink," from an evening in June 2018 when the sky had unexpectedly glowed pink and orange in the blue hour when at sunset it seemed we'd wasted our time even going there. When I reviewed the image on my Picfair page, I was unimpressed. I guess I have more time to work on my processing these days - sometimes I think too much time might in fact be a bad thing. Among the shadows were stray rocks and bits of debris that needed cleaning up, and when I zoomed in further, I noticed that one of those rocks was in fact a tog, hunched down low over his tripod. How had I not seen him before? He had to go too. Another sale - I hope she likes it when she receives the printed product.
And then finally, and most bizarrely, a lady from America complimented me on my Instagram feed. "Do you sell your pictures?" she asked. I'd just posted this one, and assumed it was the image that had caught her eye, but no. In truth, I wasn't convinced that three of the four she'd chosen represented anywhere near my best work, but I thanked her for her kind words and told her I'd have them all on my Picfair page that evening for her to buy downloads or printed products. In fact one of them was that Vestrahorn reflection shot that I was muttering about unfavourably in my previous post. Later the reply came. "I don't actually want to print them. Can you sell them to me in NFT format? Would that work for you? I have a budget of four thousand dollars per picture." By now I was feeling mildly perturbed. What on earth is NFT format? Did this lady think I was Banksy's brother? I consulted with members of my family. My sister and her three adult children, all of them from art backgrounds went into immediate rant mode about digital art and something called a blockchain that apparently requires the contents of at least three of the Great Lakes and the output of five nuclear power stations to maintain. Lloyd's response was rather more balanced. He'd had a similar approach and after some research on the subject had decided not to. Apart from anything else there appears to be a substantial setup cost, and we agreed that this is supposed to be a hobby. If we sell a few along the way for a bit of pocket money that's great, but we don't want the pressures of trying to earn from our images. It seems that the world of NFTs involves creating a digital signature and giving up ownership of the image completely - and I didn't want to do that. Not even if the offer was genuine - and of course there was strong chance that it was that international drugs syndicate knocking on the Instagram door again. Politely I declined the offer of enough money to keep me in annual trips to Iceland for the next six years. She's still waiting for me to explain why I don't do NFTs. I'm pretending I've forgotten to reply.
All of which brings me here, seventy-two pounds richer and with my pension fund intact. Here is the image that the American NFT art collector didn't want to buy. Last Monday, Ali and I were taking a stroll around our local woodland, pausing here and there as we do to enjoy a view before moving on around the circuit. As we came to a clearing I looked at the sky. Mackerel clouds were forming, and with an hour until sunset the outcome seemed far more easy to predict than the one at Bedruthan Steps nearly five years earlier. We increased our pace and power walked backed to the house, where I grabbed the camera bag before we raced to the coast. And you can see for yourself what happened. Almost nine years into this photography lark and I'm starting to spot the tell-tale signs of an epic sunset. Mind you, Towanroath is a tricky one to compose from here, but there was no choice if I wanted to include that sky. It's on the Picfair page and I really ought to push it and see if anyone bites. But I'm not really that bothered - it's just a hobby after all.
A brief stop beside the road at Ballachulish to snap some reflection shots while it was so still.
I seldom use this lens or camera anymore but I see I should get it out more often.
Eos 5D Mk I ISO set to L (50 iso on this model)
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Another of this serires of reflection shots, it was a morning that I will never forget and it will probably never be equalled, I hope you all enjoyed them as much as I witnessed it happening in front of my eyes and recording the events!
Macro Mondays - Container
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I always struggle with reflections. Shot this with the blinds shut, and lots of contortions, lol!
Happy Macro Monday : )
This caught my eye. Not usually my style, but I loved the maid looking through the window. Plus, who does like a reflection shot?
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Although I've seen really good images from the area used to shoot this, over the decades I've been a Bay Area photographer, I never found the time to use a long lens here myself, until it was certain that the new Bay Lights would go on.
I figured that they would affect the way reflection shots would look, so I set out to shoot a series of them before that time. Well, I started close to home with this one and eventually arrived as far south as the Embarcadero in San Francisco, but didn't get to every shot. Not the biggest deal to worry about, to be sure. Especially when you consider that the Bay Lights help certain shots, quite a bit. Still, I think it was a good thing to do.
Anyway, the main thing about this shot was having clear enough air right above the bay to render the city, itself, to better establish a sense of place because this is FAR away.
Thanks for having a look!
I used tiny magnetic beads to construct a ring a round of 16 beads (2.5cm in diameter) and 7 layers (2.5cm in height/depth). Then placed 2 golden foil cards about 4.5cm by 7cm (from chocolate packing) in L shaped and placed the ring.
Then placed a pink plastic phone holder and a blue box to create color reflections.
Shot taken at a tilted angle into the middle of the ring, creating multiple refractions and reflections.
No special lightings all from the ceiling lights. Using my Huawei Mate 9 :)