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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..
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.
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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Some years ago, we did a road trip through some of the American southwest's iconic locations, including stops at Sedona, Monument Valley, Lower Antelope Canyon, and the Grand Canyon National Park. One of the most surprising places during the visit was Sedona, as I had not heard about it much before. The only spot I had in mind was the Crescent Moon Picnic Area which had a great view of the famous Cathedral Rocks.
If I remember this correctly, our timing was a bit off, and we missed peak fall colors by a week, but there was still a bit of color left over on the cottonwood trees that adorned the park, and views here turned out to be some of the most stunning that I have seen. A slick rock area in the park has these massive scars leading up to the rock formations in the background. Sometimes this area has puddles in these holes that make it possible to take a nice reflection shot but even without the water, they worked well for this image. I am glad I found this image while reviewing my old files.
"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.
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.
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.
A broken water main in downtown San Antonio, TX yielded a rare reflection shot at Alamo Beer/Burnet St. of this westbound UP freight. February 2021.
I thought I would have a go at a B&W reflections shot for a change although the golden morning light was good in the colour version.
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This was the first shot I took of this bridge east of Paynesville, MN as a westbound behind a single GEVO crossed it on a calm evening in November 2008. It turned out pretty well, but I regretfully cut off the reflection at the bottom of the frame. I would return to this location a bunch of times over the years before I finally got an equally clear reflection shot that included the entire thing.
This photo isn't exactly what I had planned. I was walking through the Melbourne CBD taking photos when it started to rain. I've been waiting for an opportunity to take some rainy photos at Centre Place, so I passed through on my return to the station. I'd hoped to get some good puddle reflection shots, but I found that it's really difficult with dirty brown water! Either way, I still really like this low-level perspective of my favourite photography spot.
Another reflection shot at Venice Beach. I can imagine the view from the plane above the pier was pretty decent.
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
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Thirty minutes after I arrived, at Odon this morning, the clouds took over. No matter, the various shades of gray and blue made it look interesting for shooting the Crane turn. Little did I think about there being enough of a puddle for a reflection shot. That was a nice bonus when I chimped the screen.
I like to visit nearby Hakone Estate and Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. Three Vietnamese women did a photo shoot at the wooden arch bridge at the end of January, in preparation of the Chinese New Year. I used this occasion to take a reflection shot of two women in beautiful dresses posing for their photographer standing on the bridge.
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Getting a good reflection shot is not an easy task. Alpine Lakes in the mornings are the traditional source of a reflection shot, but while the valley is home to Merced River, there are no significant lakes in the area. Now the Merced river snakes its way into many of the classic views of the Yosemite Valley, being a quite fast-moving river, the chances of a good reflection shot is scarce.
So, imagine my surprise when we were at Valley view spot for a sunrise shot during the winter of 2014 and saw perfectly still water with reflections everywhere. After the customary sunrise shot at valley view, we did a quick check of all our favorite spots. This spot at the hanging bridge is my preferred composition of the Yosemite Falls. Now during 2014, the drought in California was at its peak, and the majestic Yosemite falls was a shell of its usual self. Now, this is not a unique composition by any means, but the luck of the traveling photog was with me that day.
I like Steveston Harbour because I can always find my favorite reflection.
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It is close to the end of year. The new year of rabbit starts on Thursday.
This is time for reflection.
Did I have too much fun with my Fuji compact?
Did I do too many panoramas lately?
Did I do too many infrareds?
Should I take more color shots?
Best wishes to my Flickr friends in the new year and hope everybody is getting more great pictures!
Reflection shot in Steveston taken with my Fuji point & shoot again in the weekend.
After an historic snowfall in the winter, the spring melt promised to be spectacular in Yosemite. I made a solo trip into the valley in late April to witness Yosemite at its best. This shot does not exist usually but there was so much water flowing into the valley that the meadows were flooding, allowing for this rare reflection. Shot taken near Swinging Bridge. I was lucky to capture this moment as the flooding closed the valley floor 2 days later.
Wet reflection shot taken before our strange sunny and dry weather spell. I've never seen so many Londoners wishing for rain.
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I went to the park to get some reflection shots and as I was standing on the edge of the lake looking at the reflections in the water this mute swan decided to have a flap for me, giving me some added interest.
I was glad I just got it in frame.
ANSH 105 (1) spoon reflections
I always like doing spoon reflection shots - in this one the spoons are placed on a page in a book about Monarch butterflies, showing hundreds (probably thousands) of the butterflies gathered together.
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I don't often get wowed by cityscape/architectural photos but this one blew my mind. Shumon and Kenji brought me here while I was in Tokyo. A reflection shot from these thin little glass panels of Tokyo International Forum one of those shots you gotta see for yourself haha and this is one of those times where I felt the phone outperform my camera. The phone could achieve a closer distance between the glass panel and the lens making the reflections "more complete". Totally not achievable with my 14-24mm but posted one from my camera anyway. Haha.
After visiting San Francisco's Asian Art Museum we headed to the Crissy Field for sunset. Stale water lent itself for this reflection shot of silhouette people and Golden Gate Bridge.
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This is the bridge that leads to the entrance to Hillingdon Station
Simple reflection shot, I really like the light in this image
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Photographing the south tufa beach at Mono Lake feels like cheating in many ways. The place is gorgeous. Its unique position across the Tioga pass means the sky is always interesting. The beautiful tufa formations provide many patterns and details, making it almost an easy place for stunning landscape photography.
I usually prefer shooting here at sunrise to get beautiful reflections on the water, so I was not too enthusiastic when we got an opportunity to head to Mono Lake for sunset. The sky was uncharacteristically bare, and sunset means choppy waters and hence no reflection shots. Thankfully I decided to go, thinking that I would explore the shoreline a bit and hopefully find some spots to return to later.
What greeted me was a perfectly still lake with perfect reflections of the fantastic tufa formations. Since I planned to explore, I had my recently acquired Nikon Z6 and the 70-200 f2.8 instead of my trusty D850 and 24-70 combo. I was still a bit new with the lens, but there were few others on the lake, and I had all the time to hit my usual spots to make some beautiful images. Today's photo is a three image panorama of the pirate ship tufa formation. I posted a similar picture some time ago, but that included some foreground elements. For this shot, I wanted to isolate the tufa and showcase its details against the incredibly blue canvas that nature provided that day.
A fisheye reflection shot at night after the rain of Darul Hana Bridge at Kuching Waterfront, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Another reflection shot from my Farringdon Station set. Very pleased with this.
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I went to Eyeworth Pond In the New Forest yesterday found ducks on the ice. Ideal for reflection shots.
Whilst Andy was off flying the drone overhead I decided to do the opposite and go for a low shot getting as near as possible to the rockpools left behind by a low tide, in the hope of grabbing a reflection shot or two.
Anyway it's North Blyth (again!) and 66737 making it's first moves towards Fort William with the 6S45 of the 12th April 2025.
I've called this Reflections...because the man half way up looked liked he was reflecting about something...what better place to do that than on a Jetty/Pier!
In night photography, once you get past the novelty of having captured the night sky at all, it's important to have a strong foreground subject, so your images don't seem repetitive and boring... Do you want 1000 images with the Milky Way as the subject, "Milky Way shot 109", "Milky Way shot 110", and so on, or is your location relevant? Isn't something interesting in the foreground your best subject, with the Milky Way as the backdrop?
It's also useful to have a very efficient shooting process, since we're not nocturnal, and it's better to be able to capture several subjects and compositions per hour, rather than one or two.
And who wants to spend hours at a computer? Being out at night is the rewarding part to me, Once I have the image optimized in-camera, I can always post-process and re-process those images for years to come. But typically I'd rather get back out and shoot.
So how do you optimize your image in-camera? It's good to push your camera equipment, shooting process and post-processing practices a bit, to see what the limits may be, and to practice addressing any challenges that come up. A great example is Milky Way reflection shots, where the reflection is much more faint than the direct view of the Milky Way. You could always fake the reflection, but people can do that sitting at a computer, assembling a result from stored image components. without ever leaving their desk. They don't even need to go out and shoot! Is that even photography, or is it digital art? Is the result photography, or digital art?
Everyone can make that call for themselves, but in cases where you can get a good image in-camera photographically, would you prefer to be a skilled photographer, or a skilled graphic artist? There's nothing inherently better being either, but even a skilled graphic artist will construct and produce better end results from high quality images, so you might as well be a skilled photographer first and foremost. And doing as much as possible in-camera tends to be more efficient, when you can pull it off.
In addition to Milky Way reflection shots, another challenging case is tighter zoom shots, where you don't want the stars to drag. Again, you could take multiple images, taken on the same night or whenever, and construct a result in Photoshop layers. You could take a Milky Way image taken with an ultra-wide lens and scale it up to look like you've zoomed in, (ignoring that you're losing resolution in your sky). Fortunately, that isn't at all necessary. Here I was using a 24-70mm f.2.8 lens here, so I decided to zoom in a bit and see how the camera and lens combo performed with shorter exposures, without having to buy or use a faster lens (with a wider aperture than f/2.8).
I set the exposure for reasonable values, pressed the shutter release button once, spent maybe 5-10 minutes post-processing in Lightroom (no Photoshop was used or necessary, no refocusing or focus stacking was necessary), and this was the result.
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For years, I resisted ever taking a vacation unless it focused on nothing but SCUBA diving. How things have changed.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Kendra and I decided on a long weekend up around Lake Tahoe. The cheap lodging and easy access to several different shooting locations helped play a part in our decision. Being close to casinos and a multitude of Safeways, Subways, and Starbucks was an unexpected surprise.
For our first day, we got up at 6am to finish packing and get to Tahoe by lunch time, thus allowing ourselves plenty of time to scout out and find Bonsai Rock. It seemed like a good place to start as the weather forecast called for worsening wind and potential snow showers as the weekend progressed. Stephen Oachs had mentioned something about reflections and wind, and yeah they don't mix.
Kendra is the GPS queen, and she loaded up a bunch of spots for us to check out. As we drove around the lake, she would randomly tell me how fast I was driving by looking at her GPS. As we passed Sand Harbor, I knew Bonsai Rock was close and told Kendra to look out the window for it as it is down a relatively steep incline from the highway.
"But the GPS says we have four more miles", she said. "No", I replied,"it's only about half a mile or so from Sand Harbor". At that instant, I hear "there it is!" and the GPS chimes in that we had reached our destination. Funny how four miles can be covered in 30 seconds. Good job GPS.
So this is my reflections shot, you won't see many more reflections from me out of this trip. The weather forecasters were pretty accurate.
I did pick up a couple new toys before the trip. One being a Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue polarizer. This polarizer is like giving a drug addict an unlimited supply of funds and making them immune to the legal system. I rarely took this filter off as it was a great opportunity to see what it could do. I felt I needed this little "preface" in order to help explain some of the far out and whacky colors that I will be posting over the next week or two. And if you don't know about the Gold-N-Blue polarizer by Singh-Ray, read more here.
I hope everyone had a great long weekend, and I will be slowly catching up with you all over the next few days!
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Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
Lee .9 and .6 Soft GND Filters
Capturing perfectly still reflection shots here is no easy matter and normally only happens a handful of occasions in a year. Indeed pretty well all the other shots I took here this morning had the waters ruffled by a slight gust of wind.