The fourth of five reflection shots, all sufficiently different to merit posting.

reflection shot, using Nikkor 10.0-24.0 mm f/3.5-4.5

After a great afternoon of photography, the clouds lined up nicely for a few brief moments as the sun set so that I could get this reflection shot.

White Pocket Arizona

Paria Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area

Utah Arizona Border

Last night over the Mackinac Bridge the fog blanketed the air so thick. There was a really good chance to see the lights. The KP was high but the clouds and fog made it nearly impossible. I still managed to get a really cool reflection shot with a glimpse of lights? Maybe I don’t know. But it kinda looks like it a little but I just love the colorful reflections in the water

Norfolk Southern Train 187 makes for a beautiful reflection shot as they head West through Calcis, AL. With a very colorful Locomotive consist

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A simple portrait, using just one key light and a table mirror to add fill and complete the composition.

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A beautiful small town of Elora, Ontario :)

Found a still piece of the stream to try for some reflection shots.

Wet shoes are well worth it sometimes. Do you agree?

Another reflection shot at fish market.

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This might be my favorite shot from White Pocket. I was lucky to find three pools of water in the area, two of which made for some very nice reflection shots…and a nice way for my dogs to cool off in the desert heat! ;) I loved how on this morning the clouds did that pillowy thing almost mimicking the pillowed shape of the stone. It was a lovely morning wandering about this amazing place without another soul around.

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Taking a nice reflection shot of the King's Arms in Seaton Sluice when this guy sailed through the shot. I told him I had to take his photo as he sailed on as it's not a shot I was going to capture every day. Quick as a flash, he said, "I hope you get me on the way back with some fish." That's when I realised he had the fishing rod.

After hiking at the Land of Medicine Buddha in the Santa Cruz mountains I went for sunset at the Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz, California. The sun was peaking through the clouds at times, and the sea was quite rough. Later at the blue hour I noticed a bird walking on a log. I hunkered down to get a reflection shot of the bird and the Walton Lighthouse in the back.

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After Vik we drove east and for destination Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, located in the south-eastern region of Iceland. On the way we found a still pond next to the road, perfect for a reflection shot. In the back in the center you can see the Fjallsárlón Glacier, to the right is a bit of the big Jökulsárlón Glacier. Both glaciers are fed by Vatnajökull, the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland.

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I was watching this Little Egret hunting in the shallows and waited until it came to an area close-by that offered a chance of a reflection shot.

Taken on the Somerset Levels.

Taken on our recent holiday to Slovakia.

The previous reflection shot was the spot where this was taken. I had a few perches etc placed about the place. It's not one I have the opportunity to photo often around here. So to be able to get any sort of shot is a bonus for me.

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Well yesterday I popped down to the beach at Sandy Bay to get some reflection shots of the boats at High Tide and the cloud suddenly turns Independence Day on me and you end up with a pretty cool images

Found this on an SD card today. High ISO and quite a crop, but I like it nonetheless.

Just like my last Oregon coast shot, it proved hard to retrace my footsteps to find out JUST where this was taken, my only guess being it was south of Bandon. On one of the descending trails from the forested cliffside to the beach I instantly spotted a haystack rock in the water.

This left me with a couple of options. I could try for a sideline shot of the beach and focus on the rock, but that would be a bit generic and probably not the best looking. I could get a full reflection shot when the waves receded (which was a better idea, and I did end up getting that too).

But then I saw these two rocks and tried another composition. Recalling Starvation Creek, I knew there was potential in a wedged shot. But the saving grace of this shot was really the logs at the bottom of the frame, helping provide a good foreground and some of them even pointing out to the rock.

Now admittedly I did cheat a little bit. The haystack rock was much smaller in the original shot and I couldn't bring out my 200m cause I had the foreground I wanted right here. So I pulled out another one of my shots with a closer and more detailed view of the rock (learned my lesson from previous shots, enlarging something already in the frame more often then not just ends in the subject looking softer). The rest of the image you see has not been tampered with (and it was the only frame in this position I had strangely). It looks reminiscent of a national park poster with the oil-like art style.

Probably I´m one of the most camera-shy persons here at flickr. Though I really love the camera..... but only if it is not pointing at me. From time to time I find myself in some reflection shots like this one. And I think how odd this shyness is...

This picture was taken in Centerville, Ohio at Stubbs Park with my 17-50mm lens. Better view in Light box.

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When you are a travel photographer, you discover some locations quite by accident that turns out to be exceptional. Sparks Lake in central Oregon is one such location for me. I only heard about this spot on my second trip to Oregon, even though we passed through the nearby town on both trips. It was a billboard that informed me about the location. I knew immediately the kind of shot I wanted, and a perfectly calm lake was essential for the photo. This being a mountain pass, my past experiences have taught me that the best chance for a reflection shot is at sunrise.

So we woke up at five and drove up the mountain pass to Sparks Lake to be on time for the sunrise. Unfortunately, the day we picked turned out to be cloudless, and it being summer, the light was coming in from behind the mountain. As a landscape photographer, I have been adept at working with less than optimal situations by then. Since the sky was rather bland, I decided to include very little of it in my composition, instead focusing on the rock formation that I was standing on. I wish I had paid more attention to the polarization effect on the sky, though. But I am still happy with the image.

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Week 29 Reflections

Shot with an Enna "Correlar 80 mm F 2.9" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

This was taken in the Lake District in England, on a crisp cold morning. I have taken photos from this exact spot several times over the years and its interesting to notice the small changes to the area. I do also love a nice reflection shot.

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After substantial rains in May and early June, I had the luxury of some reflection shots.....albeit with a bland sky. This is an image taken late in the day. The next morning is also featured in my photostream.

We had dinner at the iconic Old Ebbitt Grill, which is located a stone throw away from the White House in Washington DC. Former Vice President Mike Pence was dining with his family in the booth next to us. After dinner I went by my own for a night shoot at the National Mall. I first went to the Washington Monument, where I met a friendly Secret Service member on a bicycle. We spoke in English, Japanese, and Italian. He speaks 5 languages, like me. He studied Japanese at the Nanzan University in Nagoya, where I used to live for many years. Later I walked over to the Lincoln Memorial. The reflecting pool was mostly solid frozen. I found a spot with water, which invited me to take this reflection shot.

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While I didn't have much sun on my trip to the Sioux Falls I did have fun chasing the Dakota & Iowa around and some of the recent rain allowed this reflection shot as the southbound train passed a recently tied down BNSF local in downtown Sioux Falls, SD. 8/28/18

Reflection shot at a shopping centre, the ceiling is at the bottom. One of my playful shots, don't normally publish these but this one was quite interesting.

I shot this lovely bit of light on Saturday night, I had just finshed a wedding and on my out for the evening I saw clouds I thought would play for me. So i turned the car and hit my local harbour. I saw the tide was in (for once) and i knew I wanted to do a reflection shot, because my local area is crap generally for foreground detail. So i shot this verto with my ND110 to smooth the water out over a 20s exposure so i could see the relection better. I love this time of year for colour i'll be making my D300 work over time i think now, lol

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A reflection shot through a shop window.

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Sculpture with Street Reflections !!

Shot rue Brochant - Paris 75017 - France -

- same store( in fact a restaurant ?!) as Blue Pig -

I've only ever seen a couple of these birds and both were in The Okavango, in Botswana. This one was much more intent on the water than on our quiet presence and the surface was still enough for a nice reflection shot. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.

CSX K444 sits in the siding at SE Tucker while it waits for a new crew to arrive just to take it the rest of the way to Atlanta. 1-2-21

Another one - This one almost touched the water with its feathers! I realized that the reflection shots are only possible in the morning in this location! The opposite bank is quite muddy and impossible to step into anytime of the day!

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I arrived in my hometown Schuders in the Swiss Alps, happy and tired. This is a shot from June when I got up very early in the morning to drive across the Swiss Alps to reach Milano Malpensa airport in northern Italy. I stopped at Sufersee (Sufer Lake) before sunrise to take this reflection shot in the blue hour.

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I managed to capture a few reflection shots with the R5 before the tide went too far out

I took a day off for a road trip in the Swiss Alps and nearby Südtirol in Italy. At Davos I stopped at the Lake Davos for this reflection shot. You get better reflections if you hold the camera very low, with the fingers touching the water.

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70804 crosses Chirk Viaduct with 6C37, the 12.06 Chirk to Carlisle empty timber train. 24.3.24

I tried to get (a cheesy) reflection shot, but the ripples on the canal proved a bit too much, will have to return!

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"Mountain Mornings" - Reading & Northern #425 backs slowly away from the coal dock in the former CNJ yards of Jim Thorpe, PA on the morning of July 4, 2021. Rain the previous few days left a nice puddle for a reflection shot of this former Gulf Mobile & Ohio pacific.

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You may be wondering what black tar has to do with the rather average looking, pink fairy floss image.

This was taken the evening we arrived at Lake Tyrrell. The entire lake had a dried up apart from one small puddle, about 1 km from the edge of the lake. I thought I should try for some reflection shots before it too disappeared. We made the trek just on sunset, carefully walking across the fragile salt pan. I should have noted the warning signs. A black layer under the white. Too late. About 5 meters from the puddle and I walked into it and went straight down into a black, tar like sludge. The sherpa would not rescue me. No way he was going to risk sinking his precious Merrill's into the sludge. He just looked on in amusement-typical.

I had thongs on which I managed to wiggle out of and slowly worked my way out. Black sludge everywhere. I, stupidly thought I have come all this way, I have got to at least make an image of the puddle. All that for this mediocre image!

Had to make the journey back with no shoes, stinking like rotting mud and black everywhere. The joys of adventure.

Smile on Saturday 'spoon and fork' theme.

I always like doing spoon (and sometimes fork) reflection shots so this was an obvious choice for the theme, though I considered polarised plastic - but didn't have a fork!. The cutlery is reflecting a picture in the 'Chihuly at Kew' book I bought on my recent visit.

Had an errand in town yesterday and feeling inspired by the photography of my Flickr friend Leon Van Kemenade I had another shot at a couple of architectural/reflection shots and still felt very intimidated but this place seemed quite enough even for me... although a couple of candid street shots left me feeling weak... A bit beyond me I'm afraid..

It is supposed to rain this week in Sedona and I am hoping there will be some nice puddles combined with low winds to get some more good reflection shots from this site.

nothing like someone stepping into your reflection shot!!! A gorgeous 1956 Mercedes Benz 190SL roadster in drop-dead-red ! Slid a bit for HSS.

Morning reflection shot of the reflection

We went to visit friends in nearby Saratoga, a town in the Silicon Valley, California. They have a kitchen with a shiny marble kitchen top, which invited me to take a reflection shot.

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