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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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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.
17.7.2025.
Every time I visit the Abbey I have a go at the 'classic' reflection shot - not managed it yet, but I'll keep trying!
Been a while i play with my HDR software. just a very light touch with HDR to enhance the clouds a bit
Another What's Sup Series of Cityscape
just like building with Windows, Reflection shot are one of my fav :D
This is around 47 street near park ave lol sorry
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.
I went to Eyeworth Pond In the New Forest yesterday found ducks on the ice. Ideal for reflection shots.
A sudden, heavy, rainstorm helped me catch this nice reflection shot of one of the more interesting and beautiful 21st Century churches I've seen, the Church of the Holy Archangels in Etchmiadzin.
The Church of the Holy Archangels (Armenian: Սրբոց Հրեշտակապետաց եկեղեցի), is a church located in the precincts of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of Armenia.
It was designed by Jim Torosyan and built from 2007-11.
It is a circular-cylindrical church with an intentionally minimalist design. It has a diameter of 15 meters. The small, high, windows give an intentionally soft and filtered quality to the interior light.
It occupies the northeastern corner of the Mother See complex, the area between the Gevorkian Seminary and the Gate of Vazgen I.
The consecration of the church took place on 5 November 2011 by Catholicos Karekin II. The church is mainly used by the deacons and students of the seminary to hold their daily liturgical services and divine worship, although it is also open for secular worshippers. It is currently (summer 2022) very busy as Etchmiadzin Cathedral is closed for renovation.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and a few machine translations the Armenian Wikipedia.
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!
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm
15sec @ f14, ISO 100
Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Polarizer
Lee .9 and .6 Soft GND Filters
Light the World back lighting on this almost real light bulb creates unusual light reflections, shot in North Carolina.
the river next to my house has swelled up due to melting ice, pushing the water in the park. this has created opportunity for some beautiful reflection shots, esp on evenings when sky is like a splashing glass of wine.
- Thomas Carlyle.
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Another shot from the spectacular valley view scenic vista point at Yosemite Valley. I took this shot when we visited the Yosemite National Park this winter. This is a pretty popular destination and I myself have posted pics from this location before. So I wanted to capture this shot a bit differently and I my opinion his location is spectacular shortly after sunrise. I reached on time and as ready, I also had planned to take a panorama stitch using a slightly normal focal length instead of the Wide angle I usually go for.
While setting up the tripod I realized that the wind had died down and it resulted in almost perfect reflection of the epic peaks on Merced River. This almost never happens for me and I was quick to keep clicking and got about 100 odd pictures before the wind picked up and the reflections were lost. Funny thing was that I had amazing reflection shots at three different locations at the valley that day. Felt pretty cool about that. Thanks for visiting and the encouragement. Hope you all have a great weekend.
After all the cloudy shots from the Chicago trip I've been posting (with more to come), I thought it'd be fun to look back to a sunny summer evening, and so we head to Hoxie Pond on Cape Cod.
While the whole line could use a good brush cutting at this point, there's still a nice reflection shot to be had. Here we see the dinner train heading west, intent on making their bridge window at Canal Junction so they can head down the Falmouth Branch, both to give patrons a nice view of the sunset, and to clear up off the main so the Cape Flyer can also make the bridge window to get back to the mainland.
A perfect reflection shot of one of the lakes in Columbia N.W.R. Just then, if you look closely, a muskrat swam by.
It's as though I spend my life crawling along the gutter looking for that reflection shot in the wet.
This is an image that will feature in my next YouTube video, featuring the Hunslet and Holbeck areas of Leeds, which I'm editing together at the moment.
I'm in Holbeck, Leeds, and the Northern 158 is running into Leeds past the old Holbeck Shed.
Fun at the beach with my 300mm plus the 2x extender. it was fascinating to observe details from such a distance, watching live the awesome atmospheric deformations and reflections.
shot at Ocean city, Washington. june 2010
An image of the former Power Station, and accompanying reflections, shot at dusk. The bridge to the right is the Grosvenor Railway bridge, which serves London Victoria. It was really refreshing to see all the work that has being going on here, I particularly like the reflected light this area gives at night, shine on….
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.
"Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers 'til I reach you"
-Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart
As I said in my last post I want to dedicate my next couple of posts to my family. This image is dedicated to my daughter Avery. Rivers and Roads is the title of a song by the band The Head and The Heart that my daughter happens to be learning to play on the guitar. I am very proud of her for her many talents and spirit, and am very glad that she is sticking to her guitar lessons. The song is beautiful and perfectly captures the heartache associated with constantly traveling away from my family. I was very excited when I found this spot, as it had this perfect intersection of a glacier-fed river, a mountain road and the stunning Swiss alps, and the song title immediately popped in my head. So my dearest Avery, this is for you, I miss you terribly and think about you always when I am away.
As to the image itself, this is the unmistakable Matterhorn as reflected in the river Findelbach that flows off the Findelgleischer (glacier). I had a weekend stay over in Switzerland during a business trip in September so I took the train from Zurich to Zermatt, with the intention of hiking up to the Stellisee lake to get a photo of the reflection of the Matterhorn in the lake. If you search Matterhorn on flickr, this is the classic shot you will find most often. In a nutshell, I underestimated the intensity of the hike and I didn't quite make it there. This shot of the Matterhorn peak bathed in the alpenglow and reflected in the Findelbach is unique as far as I can find. Judge for yourself whether that makes it interesting. It is clearly not the shot I really wanted, and the original composition had several issues. It's one of those images that doesn't quite work at first and you have to step away from it for a while and then patiently work with it to improve. After removing some unsightly gondola wires and cropping it I was more satisfied.
Of course, the intended shot had to be a sunrise or sunset shot. Unfortunately the gondola and funicular train that both go up from Zermatt (at 4,000ft) to the 5 lakes (at 6,000ft) start running after sunrise and stop before sunset. So if one wants a sunrise/sunset shot one has two choices: overnight on the mountain-side, or hike up/down from Zermatt. I chose the hike option because I wasn’t prepared to camp out. To skip straight to today’s lesson: it was the wrong choice. Or rather, I didn’t have the time to properly prepare and half-assing my way up there at 3am cost me my chance at a reflection shot in the lake. Now, that may not be such a disaster because without some decent cloud lighting I don’t think the lake reflection would be any more satisfying to me than this shot. But that hike!! Very nearly did me in. It's about 12km walking at a fairly good incline from Zermatt. But the main reason is actually right in the middle of the frame of this shot. The bridge in the center is the connection between the path up from Zermatt to this particular spot and the road that continues up to the Stellisee. And I was so busy trying to find a composition during the few minutes of pre-sunrise Alpenglow that I missed the sign where the road up to Stellisee forks from the path that follows the river.
I continued to follow that path along the river as it started to slope upward and got increasingly difficult, until I was almost at the foot of the glacier. I was now hemmed in by steep slopes of loose rock on either side and decided I'd clearly misread the map or missed a fork, and it was just too stupid to go any further.
I turned back down and eventually discovered the sign to Stelligsee. The funicular was also up this path just beyond Stelligsee. I summoned my last bit of drive to follow the path (back uphill) until I reached the Grindjisee lake, a few hundred meters before Stelligsee, just to stubbornly say I'd made it (mostly). I took my reflection shot in the Grindjisee for posterity, even though it was well past sunrise and the light quality was bad by that point, so I'll never post it.
At this point my legs were so tired that I just didn’t have it in me to keep climbing, even though it was a 2 hour descent back down to Zermatt instead of a 30 minute hike further uphill. At least I could claim some form of masochistic victory; I had made it to the 5 lakes and had the route scoped out for a future visit. Hiked 20 miles (32km) that day at 4,000-6,000 feet (2000 meters). Climbed and then descended the equivalent of 200 flights of stairs. And lived to write the tale for my wonderful daughter Avery :-)
- Leonardo da Vinci.
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I took his shot while we were heading back to town from the spectacular maroon bells view point. I had eyed this small snowmelt puddle for its reflection potential earlier, but due to the darkness couldn’t really figure out the complete view. On our way back I could see the maroon bells reflected on the car’s side view mirror and decided to stop and head to the small pond for a reflection shot since we had almost now wind.
The scene at the pond was one of the most challenging dynamic range shot. I had to use a 3 stop ND grad filter and combine a 5 image hdr to get some detail in the sky and foreground. I would have liked a bit more detail to the left side of the image but this was the best I could do and get a natural balanced look.
A rugged, remote backcountry lake basin | Sequoia National Park
Not really going to say too much about this one other than the fact that it was the only good sunset I got on this five-day backpacking trip! It was a total surprise, too -- I was expecting clear blue skies and then some beautiful cirrus rolled on. I wasn't complaining; in fact, I wasn't ready, so I ran down and down in the basin until I could get that nice-looking peak on the left to spew the clouds out!
As always, all kinds of feedback are highly welcome. One of these days, I'll post something that's not a lake/reflection shot ;)
~ Jeff
(Explored #30 and FP on 11.05.2012)
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The branch just above the water worked well for this reflection shot at Soudley ponds in the Forest of Dean
Reflected Resonance, I promise I will not post a water reflection shot every day, just every other day! :-))))) Remember I have lots of these!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
A fisheye reflection shot at night after the rain of Darul Hana Bridge at Kuching Waterfront, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Today I headed to Chur, a regional capital in the Swiss Alps. This is where I went to high school at the Kantonsschule. In December there is a Christmas market in the old part of the town. At times it was raining heavily. I ended up at the Arcas square for this reflection shot - there are concerts and other activities at Arcas in the summer.
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We spent an extended weekend in the Eastern Sierra mountains to see the fall colors. On day 4 we went to visit the Rock Creek Lake located high above Bishop, California. There was no wind early in the morning - perfect for a mirror reflection shot.
I processed a photographic and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
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Santa Barbara Beach
Santa Barbara, CA
05-16-20
The tide was pretty low, so there was lots of sand, and I really couldn't get angles with both the coastline and ocean visible in the same shot without creating wide panoramas.
The geology of this area is amazing and colorful. I was going for one of my reflection shots but the water wasn't coming back to this area of sand at the time I took this photo, so it's not wet enough for what I wanted.
Still, an outstanding cloudspray in a deep cerulean sky against a colorful rockface with trees right on the edge.
mismo objeto y colores contrastantes... hecho.
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one more water reflection shot for FlickFriday theme #cliché.
Shot on iPhone 13 Pro.
Went for a ride with mates around the river - and stopped at the man-made beach at South Bank to get a reflection shot. Had a couple of different frames but went with this one, with the palm trees offering a balance/contrast to the CBD on the other side of the river. Not bad weather today.
Sunrise over Sydney harbour. I was actually chasing some fog but by the time I got down to Kirribilli it had lifted. Fortunately there was some mid level cloud that generated some colour at sunrise. The previous night's rain created a well placed puddle on the ferry wharf for a good reflection shot. Taken on Cammeraigal land.
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It's been a year of reflection shots and spiral staircases, but there's always been one on my list that I've never gotten around to until today. This is the staircase at Bevin Court, a block of flats near Kings Cross station in London. The flats are split into three wings that meet at a central hub where this staircase connects all the floors.
I've started to put together a map of spiral staircases in London. If you look at this Google Map you can see the one's I'm aware of. If you've got any that you know of that aren't on the map and you like them added then send me a Flickr mail with the details and I'll add it.
Sorry, a bit behind on here at the moment compared to my other media platforms. This is from my second trip out on my week off a couple of weeks back and as you can see it was a visit to Stourhead gradens which are just down the road from me
I mamaged to get some pretty nice conditions in between the storms battering us that week and the water here was dead calm, if only for an hour or so, but it was enough to get some nice reflection shots, including this one.
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.
One more autumn reflection shot taken on Red Lack Lake last month in Michigan's Upper Peninsula at sunrise. Thanks for stopping by and your comments are always appreciated!
As this is the time of year to reflect on the past and look forward to the future I thought I would provide a very tenuous reflection shot.
The Chrysler Building’s reflection captured in the glass of the building opposite, taken a few weeks ago whilst in NYC. The day was wet and so the top of the building was obscured by low cloud.
Many thanks to all those who have viewed, liked and commented throughout the year. I wish you all a happy, peaceful and rewarding New Year.
Olympus EM1 Mk2
Panasonic Leica 8-18
To be fair there could be any number of titles for this shot. Bruce is trying the reflection shot, Andy the canopy and Nigel doing a line.
A nice bonus was the reflection shot in the pond as he approached the crossing. You can see how far down the water levels are as North Dakota is in a severe drought.
The trains in North Dakota can be pretty elusive at times but the effort to shoot them always seems to be worth it.
Lake Matheson (Fox Glacier) reflection shot of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook. This is a pano of 3 portrait images.
- Khalil Gibran.
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I used to pay little attention to the white balance setting while editing my images. For the longest time, I would simply set it to daylight and forget about it. However, I recently watched a YouTube video that explained the importance of using the correct white balance setting while developing an image. Since then, I have been experimenting with different settings and have noticed a significant improvement in my images, especially during sunrise scenes.
One particular scene I captured was at June Lake in the eastern Sierra Mountains. While walking around looking for reflection shots, I spotted the light coming over a hill, illuminating some smaller peaks to the east. Most of the lake shore was still in shade and had blue tones, but the light had a beautiful warm tone that contrasted nicely with the blue tones. During my editing process, I used masking to accentuate the tones of each area separately. Although it added a few steps to my editing workflow, I believe the results, especially for sunrise scenes, made it truly worthwhile.