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P&W NR-4 passes Packer's Pond in Plainfield after leaving the yard for Willimantic. This would be a perfect spot for a reflection shot, if it weren't for all the algae.
This is my second Kilchurn reflection shot, of which i have decided to convert to black & white. I like it................hope you do to :-))
A return to see the Kelpies with the family. Took the camera with me again and took a few shots. Managed to get a full reflection shot of one of the Kelpies. This was 15 minutes before they lit up but I still think its a nice shot with the moon lurking through the clouds.
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.
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-- Æ’/3.5, 16 mm, 1/400 sec, ISO 100, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC2344_5_6_hdr3pho1pai5g.jpg
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one more water reflection shot for FlickFriday theme #cliché.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Anish Kapoor's stainless steel piece, As Yet Untitled, is begging for people to take reflection shots. There was practically a line.
That's Pam to the right. A stranger is sneaking up behind me.
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!
'John Armitt' with the 1Q15 06.45 Derby R.T.C to Landore T.M.D. test train.
Note the UV camera lighting that records overhead structures. Terry opts for the puddle reflection shot.
Lake Matheson (Fox Glacier) reflection shot of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook. This is a pano of 3 portrait images.
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.
took a bit of waiting around for the right moment when the kids and tourists got out of the way for a better clearer shot of the fountain with a decent reflection especially at 3 in the afternoon....the kids came in batches today though and this was one of those lull moments where you had to be quick and take your shot while the coast was clear...hope you guys like this one....pls. View On Black
Shot on iPhone 16 Pro.
Went for a run, took a photo … I was saying to my wife, on days I find a sunrise/reflection shot, the pressure of 365 just kinda disappears. Done and dusted. I had a few options - this one was too wide for Insta but liked it for Flickr. I do feel if people ever come to Brisbane and find it during the day, without a reflection and all brown, they might be unimpressed.
- 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.
The Japanese Garden in Cornwall provides an authentic Japanese
garden design in an idyllic Cornish setting. Built as a meditative garden it is the perfect space where one can calm the mind & let go of unwanted stress through contemplation & reflection.
Shot with the Nikon D3 and the Nikon 50mm 1.4G
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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Had a walk out to the beach @ Titchwell just over an hour after high tide. Beach was still wet & this Sanderling came exploring away from the tide line, enabling some reflection shots. He looked at everything but I liked him investigating the Mussel shell. Winter visitors to our shores as they breed in high Arctic area
Simple reflection shot, I really like the light in this image
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
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At Lake Mývatn just after midnight, view over the lake to Mt Vindbelgjarfjall, N-Iceland.
Me and Völundur went on a late night phototrip with our friend DanÃel . Its always great to catch the midnight sun by Lake Mývatn, to sit outside on a blanket, drink hot tea and eat chocolate while waiting for the right light to arrive.
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4 day trip to Amsterdam during the tulip season and the weather was pretty chilly and windy except from the couple of hours on 1 night so I was pleased I could get some reflection shots.
We headed to Fort Bragg, a coastal town in northern California. The glass beach is supposed to have lots of sea glass. But we could not find much. There is however an interesting ocean pool, perfect for a reflection shot.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Every time I come here I’m never disappointed. The lake is always so calm and so peaceful. The reflection shots are endless. I thought this view from the front of northbar looking out into Lake Michigan was the best. You get the best of both worlds! Wish you all a great Saturday!
Fall Colors in Yosemite Oct. 2019. This photo was taken from one of my favorite locations. No matter how much water is flowing down the Merced, this section seems to always be very calm, offering great reflection shots in the afternoon.
In June we went to the de Young museum, located in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. Perfect for a reflection shot.
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-- Æ’/2.2, 50 mm, 1/4000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-50F18, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC0941_hdr1bal1h.jpg
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After shopping in San Francisco's Chinatown we crossed the bay and went to the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland for sunset. It was low tide. Walking on the muddy beach I found a big still water puddle, perfect for a reflection shot just after the sun disappeared behind the San Francisco skyline.
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-- Æ’/5.0, 82 mm, 1/250, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 2 RAW exposure, _DSC6905_6_hdr2rea1pho1f.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
I know I said I wanted to take a break from the gloomy shots now that Scotch is healing and my gloomy outlook is improving, but I kept meaning to post this one all last week since I thought it was very cool and different from most of my posts. That dark overcast day at venice was a lot of fun, even if I only got a whimper of a sunset. The light was there--i took plenty of shots where extremely bright sunlight poured through holes or gaps in the blue and gray clouds--but it was just well smothered by the cloud cover and I suppose I've gotten accustomed to clouds dispersing around the time of the sunset but not on this day. So many trips would end in frustration when the clouds I followed towards my location slowly disappeared until I had a blank sky at at arrival and at sunset. On this day, I kept waiting and waiting for even a small break and it never happened.
The bit of sunset above the crashing wave was about it and I didn't find it particularly interesting enough to really make a focal point of any of the images. Actually that's entirely true. I did spend about 4 minutes following a sailboat on the horizon as it passed by the strip of sunset but that was mostly it. Instead, I focused on single frame and panoramas and alternated between interesting waves and of course the reflections on the long shore.
Normally, I will at least quickly check surf conditions, either on weather.com app or on some fairly detailed surf report site I came across once. I started checking this at the end of Spring when cloudy days became more and more infrequent and I was searching for any reason to go somewhere and shoot. If it wasn't going to be cloudy or colorful, maybe it would at least be bright with huge surf that I could use a quicker shutter on. Now with winds starting to pick up more and cloudy days more reliable, perhaps I will start using these surf reports more often to help me choose a location. As of now, really cloudy has generally meant venice because of the reflections but it would be nice to have reasons to head elsewhere on occasion.
Anyway, the surf was very interesting on the afternoon. It had the feel of a storm coming but it remained fairly dry and even with storm clouds far off in the distance just above the horizon, the highlights besides the reflections were the waves. Until this trip, I really didn't enjoy shooting the waves because I was so obsessed with long exposures but it was hard to ignore the large, slowly forming waves breaking in front of an extremely dark and moody sky. I had the polarizer on the lens but mainly left the 10 stop in the bag and was too lazy to use any of the less opaque filters. In retrospect, I'm a bit disappointed I shot so few long exposures because the consistent blue and subsequent reflections might've been interesting to see completely smoothed out. I shot a few random long exposures before and during the sunset but mainly waited until after dark so I could shoot the pier.
Before California, my experience with shooting beaches was limited to my trip to Martha's Vineyard last summer and honestly, I had zero idea what I was doing back then. I had ordered my first cheap set of ND filters just before the trip and probably spent 90% of the time with them attached to the lens. Back in Maryland, my exposure to water came in the form of countryside creeks, waterfalls and a few trips to Harper's Ferry to shoot the Shenandoah River which, while interesting, is nothing like staring out into a body of water with no end in sight. Growing up a baseball player, I always sort of measured distances by whether I could throw a baseball from one side of something to the other. I know how far I can throw and can generally tell if a distance is within that range or close to it and I know I can throw a baseball across the Shenandoah River. While other beaches are fun to shoot out here, Venice is totally unique. The feeling of standing on a slick, reflective shoreline with the vastness of sea in front and the full reflections surrounding me and the tripod is surreal. I always catch myself turning and looking around since the reflection acts like a mirror and suddenly it feels like I'm floating above the water. It's hard to explain maybe, but you've seen the reflection shots I've taken here and it completely fills the frame. It's also because I keep the camera about a foot off the ground and am able to get all of the reflection I can into frame.
This shot was one of the better waves I got on the evening and I was fortunate to have the settings and focal length in a good spot for this particular wave though it would've been nice to have the other side of that golden reflection seen in the foreground in the sky as well. One of these days I will finally drag myself to Laguna or another new interesting beach but until the conditions are right and I'm able to leave early enough to explore, there's worse places in the world to have as a "safety" location than Venice Beach. My favorite beach to shoot happens to be the closest/easiest destination as well and I've now been enough times to arrive somewhat efficiently and quickly find legal parking nearly my preferred place on the beach. I just know to stay away on the hazy cloudless days, but that generally applies to everywhere out here.
Shot on iPhone 13 Pro.
Another reflection shot taken on another run. Bridge nerds might be interested to know our Story Bridge was designed by the same bloke who did the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was into metal.
Last week I posted a photo of Victoria Glacier from Lake Louise showing the glacier lit up in alpenglow light. I also talked about how the crowds at Lake Louise increase dramatically as the morning grows later. Fortunately, with sunrise happening at 5:15am, we still had a relatively crowd-free chance to roam around the lake taking photos. The lake is pretty accessible from all sides, which allows for lots of different compositions. While the light wasn't the golden glow of sunrise when I took this photo, it was still very nice. The lake was smooth as glass, allowing for great reflection shots (my favorite type of photo). For this composition, I wanted to have Victoria Glacier in it while capturing the reflection of Mount Aberdeen in the waters of Lake Louise.
As the snow melts in the Sierra after the winter's monumental storms the meadows of Yosemite Valley have flooded, even covering the raised platform trails. The opportunities for reflection shots, like this one of Upper Yosemite Falls, were plentiful.
Liedsegracht, looking north from Keizersgracht bridge, Amsterdam.
What a photo adventure it's been in Amsterdam! My first day I must have walked/plodded 15+ km. It was a great journey visually--so much to look at--but so-so photographically (as far as I can tell so far) as typical "tourist shots", even if done technically well, seem so predictable. Last night I snuck out to do canal reflection shots (as above), and today I just looked for interesting stuff while riding the canal bus all day. I think things came out much better once I stopped trying to capture "landmarks" and instead focused on the "small stuff", just like I do when I'm a home.
*Every* tourist takes lots of photos here, mostly portrait and a few famous landscapes, and I saw *lots* of expensive cameras/lenses, but in my time on the streets I only saw one guy who looked "photo serious". People seemed to get a kick out of seeing me change film in my lomos. (Sorry I don't have time to stop by, see you soon...)
Months in advance i was fantasising about the beautiful Taj Mahal and about taking some reflection shots. And of course.........the baths/fountains were empty when i was there. There were only a couple of splashes of water and i managed to make some reflections shots. Everybody thought i was crazy, because it really were splashes of water and you had to lay down and hold your camera an inch above the water, you couldn't see the reflections whith your own eyes.