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Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 27/11/2021 ----
Reflections on Water .
Weather if cold was better forecast at the start of the week so had a go with the camera at a couple of ponds with plenty of trees by them for possible reflections . Took a half dozen shots or so when I got distracted after becoming aware of a heron up in a tree close by . Found a the best position for a shot of the heron before realising it was actually making a reflection itself on the water , well that sold it for me - packed the SLR with the telephoto and got out the Power Shot to capture what you see above . Not only was the heron reflecting well on the water , the tree itself made a splendid "C" shape itself , click and job done ! Alas , I was stuck with the large branch going across the top left corner and I was not going paddling just to avoid it !! Soon after the temperature dropped quite a bit and the wind got up - so it was time to pack up !
A couple of shots from the ponds in the first comment box to go with the main shot -plus my stand by reflection shot had the ponds not been any good !!
For Sight & Sound , a tune more to do with the heron than the reflections ---
When I was a young[er] boy I was given a VHS tape about the Alaska Railroad. For whatever reason I still vividly remember repeatedly watching that tape in the late 90s and early 2000s hoping to one day to experience what this railroad had to offer. Fast forward about 25 years after I first saw that VHS tape leads us into the summer of 2023 where I find myself in Alaska spending multiple days trackside along the Alaska Railroad.
In that VHS tape I wasn't drawn to the bright, newer blue and yellow scheme of this railroad, I was drawn to the black and yellow scheme. So while in Alaska I had hoped to shoot one of the three remaining geeps in the Black and Yellow scheme leading. And as luck would have it I would get two of the three on one train.
Train 120S a freight train from Anchorage down to the barge in Whittier ran with a trio of geeps lead by GP40-2 3006, one of the three remaining black geeps left on the Alaska Railroad roster. We chased the train from Anchorage to the Whittier tunnel, allowing for many opportunities to capture the train.
One of those examples is here as Alaska Railroad Train 120S heads into the small hamlet of Girdwood Alaska. A quick jump out of the car and run across a soggy landscape and though some shrubs and trees got us to a small pond for a reflection shot. Quickly realizing I didn't have the right lens on the camera and with little time to make up for that mistake I decided to try a roster pan shot. While not my intended composition it still worked out, so we'll carry on
I would've liked to have been able to stay a day or two longer to document the return trip, make it down to Whittier, and to get other shots, but I guess that gives me a reason to return in the future.
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!
This is a great time of the year for aurora photography in Alaska. There is open water for great reflection shots and if you time it just right you can capture the aurora and sunset or sunrise in the same shot. This photo was taken near Sheep Mountain, Alaska on the morning of August 18th, 2024. Nikon Z9. Nikkor Z 14-24 mm.
Low pov puddle reflection shot of Hanbury Street, with the eyes of street art by Jaycees & a short lived painted advert going up on the wall of the Banglatown cash & carry.
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
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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 Daníel . 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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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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Simple reflection shot, I really like the light in this image
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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.
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.
I once again shot BNSF 539 this week. This time leading L-CHI105 towards Galesburg on a late Tuesday afternoon. The morning rain made for a nice opportunity to do a reflection shot just outside of town!
"We're going to need a bigger telly! I've ordered one already."
"Erm......I've been thinking. Haven't you noticed how the telly flickers in the top right hand corner on occasion? Don't you think we should get a new one now?"
"The bloke who fitted the new Sky box on Wednesday said our telly was smaller than the ones in most customers' houses. He told me fifty-five inches is about the norm now."
"Our telly is quite old now you know. Maybe it's about time we considered retiring it to the spare room upstairs?"
I considered how all of these imagined conversation starters on the subject of our eleven year old tv set with Ali might play out. And then failed to do anything further. Even though a brand new contraption with internet capabilities really doesn't cost that much anymore, it seemed a very extravagant idea. I'd let it ride for another year. And all because my eyesight has obviously deteriorated that little bit further.
All of this came sharply into focus as a result of a completely out of focus moment on Saturday morning, when Ali had gone off to college for the one day a week of teaching that she still seems to do without complaint, while I settled down on the sofa for a second cup of tea and a spot of idle entertainment, courtesy of those YouTube chaps I follow. Saturday mornings still hold that wonderful sense of liberation, despite me having retired sixteen months ago, simply because I can hog the big sofa in its entirety and not have to watch endless cookery shows. Well obviously the cat joins me, but she's small and doubles up as a hot water bottle on these cold winter days so it's a win win situation that we're both otherwise denied when the boss is at home. On this morning of quiet release, the YouTube landing page offered me a story by Thomas Heaton, with a title that told me somebody had walked straight into the composition he'd arrived especially early for and set up their own tripod, completely oblivious to the unspoken etiquette that we togs obey in such circumstances. It was only a ten minute story. I'd watch this, knock up a bit of brekkie and then decide whether to take the van down to Botallack again. I didn't - clear sky and nothing much doing in the sea - not according to the Magic Seaweed app at any rate.
The video started, with a distant lone photographer rambling over the early morning landscape and the commentary began. "What's up with Tom?" I wondered to myself. At first I thought perhaps he had a cold. Then I wondered whether the video was playing at the right speed. Had Tom been at the nitrous oxide? The voice sounded a bit like Tom - but something wasn't quite right. Then the walker came closer, not near enough to his video camera to be fully defined, but had Tom also developed a set of mutton chops since I last watched him? I paused the video, laughingly wondering whether I might spot some settings that were somehow out of kilter, and squinted at the telly in the opposite corner of the room. And now I realised what the problem was. If we'd only had a fifty-five inch telly I wouldn't have been so confused over the last two and a half minutes. I strained my eyes that bit more closely at the screen, taking care not to disturb the cat (she still jumps out of her fur at the sight of her own shadow four years after we rescued her) and realised that Thomas Heaton was in fact Thomas Haslam. I'd never heard of Thomas Haslam, but he'd appeared in my suggested feed, so out of politeness I finished the video, sighing with him at the crass behaviour of that tog who'd planted his tripod right in the middle of Tom's composition. He was at Stanage Edge - hope it wasn't you. Of course it wasn't you - you'd never do that.
Luckily our hero headed off to a quieter spot and found a very different reflection shot of a lone tree halfway up a quarry wall. He went home feeling slightly happier.
A day earlier, somebody had walked into my composition here at Godrevy. But of course I hadn't noticed, because he was the thirty-seven inch version rather than the fifty-five inch version. And I didn't mind, because whoever he was, I thought he made the shot a tiny bit more interesting. After all, this is a place where people love to stand on clifftops and look towards the lighthouse.
Of course if we did retire the old TV set up to the spare room I could watch the football on Sunday afternoons without causing any bother you know. Maybe it's time to stand upside down and see how much falls out of my pockets........
Chapelfield Shopping Centre - Norwich
Was aiming for a reflection shot today, and whilst this is only really light reflection, I like it to much to bin it.
Film...Day four
You seem a girl so sound...
No theme Thursday...
As you can see my theme for this week has been all film shots so I'll continue with that until Friday. I may share over the weekend also. I haven't made up my mind yet. I don't usually post on the weekends as that is my shut down time but I shoot a boatload of film and rarely share it here so...I've been sharing it this week. It’s a big thing for me, it’s my guilty pleasure, my soul. I adore everything about it from the start to finish.
I did a film swap with a very good friend of mine in New York City back in April and the results are absolutely amazing. I always always do a reflection shot on all of my rolls of film that I shoot. It was insane the way this shot lined up. His shot is the obvious winner here. Those bursts are amazing. We did no notes and had no idea what frames each of us had shot. So many cool shots and I printed most of them. Ill post another one later this afternoon that is my hands down favorite shot from the roll.
Minolta XE-5/Minolta XE-5
Kodak Ektar 100
My friend developed at the lab after he was done shooting over my images.
Sorry for the long winded post today!
This is the small fish pond about 200 feet behind my house that I'm fixing up in Newcastle, Texas. Both are within the fenced in area of the property so all sorts of Fallow Deer photo opportunities pop up quite often. I had been doing some ceiling work in what will eventually be a finished kitchen when I noticed that the sun was getting close to setting... casting long shadows and the sky was bright blue. My camera bag was handy so I quit working for the day and decided to try to get some deer reflection images, taking advantage of the sweet lighting. The deer often move to the pond to drink very late in the day and if I position myself with the sun more or less behind me I can sometimes get some good reflection shots, especially with a bright blue sky. Here Lexx is getting a drink and his companions weren't quite close enough to get in the image, which was exactly what I wanted... a photo of JUST Lexx. A few seconds after I snapped this a dozen does, fawns, and juvenile "spike" bucks moved into the area from the left. "Mob" photos can be great, but this photo of Lexx is the one I like the best from this particular occasion.
Lexx and four other big bucks were killed several years later over a three week period by a poacher. After we lost the first one several motion-activated game cameras were set up, one capturing a clear photo late one night of the perp standing beside my back porch all dressed in black, with a scope sighted cross-bow. Eventually he was caught and because he was in hot water for much more serious offenses, our situation was placed "on the back burner". We've had no trouble in the eight years that have passed since then, but when some of the bucks get really nice large racks, we can't help thinking back to that incident.
Taken with a Nikon D40, AF-S 18-200mm Nikkor.
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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...)
UP 6379 continues leading it’s train heading eastbound on BNSF’s Brush Subdivision, as it passes a giant puddle making for great reflection shots.
This was my first ever Peter Van Campenhout photo charter on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway, despite it only being up the road! The day got off to a good start at Fell Foot, although fluctuating winds did make the reflection shot in the River Leven a bit tricky! Fairburn tank No. 42073 passes by, framed by one of the better reflections of the morning.
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Don't you just love a reflection shot?! I've passed this reservoir a number of times before and I've always driven straight on by, dismissing it completely but this day, with the snow, I couldn't resist.
The 'clouds' in this image are actually made up of smoke actually smoke distant wildfires. After having been blessed with clear skies (and ample aurora activity) it was the last night of the trip that I went out hoping to get some aurora and reflection shots in this small lake. I waited for a good hour in the dead of night, surrounded by massive granite peaks and an eerie stillness, occasionally disturbed by the sound of moving rocks. Each time this happened made me wonder whether it was a bear approaching and so I would make some noise to scare the potential intruder away. Anyways, this was about the only image I was able to get during a brief gap in the ash clouds before I decided to call it a night and made my way back to the camp.
Tyneham is a ghost village in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. It remains a civil parish, and is one of a handful of parishes in England with a population of zero. This is because were requisitioned just before Christmas 1943 by the then war office for training troops and 225 people were displaced.
This is a flip reflection shot, the village reflected in the village pond.
13.11.2016
The last time I was in Canary Wharf was almost two years ago. Days before the first lockdown began. I'd gone after work to try and get some nice shots with my new(ish) wide angle lens of the Newfoundland Building and of the new builds around the South Dock and Wood Wharf. When I arrived some of them were still in the process of being completed and a stiff breeze was whipping up the water in the South Dock making reflection shots impossible. But I remember sitting in Cabot Square waiting for it to get dark a little more and watching as office workers were saying to each other 'see you after the lockdown' as they all went to work from home for the next few months. In the end I got a few shots and went home.
So I returned recently with the same lens on a sharp, clear and mostly still winters evening to try and get those shots again. The new buildings around the South Dock are now complete though Wood Wharf (right of centre) is still a construction site. But Park Drive and 10 George Street in the middle of the photo are now finished. These as well as other buildings here are apartment buildings instead of offices. This shot was taken at the end of the South Dock in front of the Dollar Bay apartment building. Various boats of the Dockland Scout Project are moored up on the right. This view I think is one of the most impressive in Canary Wharf.
Another spoon and fork reflection shot that I took for the Smile on Saturday theme. I just had a slight preference for the image I used. This one is again reflecting a picture from the Chihuly at Kew book, of the beautiful cinnamon and cream persian.
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Yesterday we went to a secluded beach north of Santa Cruz. It was fun climbing over rocks with my friend Jerry Downs to discover new scenes. I caught Jerry in the action of taking a reflection shot of a splashy wave. Time flies when you capture the play of nature!
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I had stopped to take a reflection shot of the harbour but this guy had other ideas and paddled across my photo as fast as he could...
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IC 1003 & IC 1033 leading CN train A407 from Centraila, IL into the CN Champaign Yard. A heavy rain the night prior gave an opportunity to do a reflection shot w/ some puddles.
Lake Mackenzie
New Zealand
This is another image from that fantastic sunset on the Routeburn track after a rain sodden day. I was taking some pure reflection shots before I realised that there were some fallen leaves around the foreground rocks which is what I focussed on when the light turned even pinker!
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Another top morning out looking for kingfishers. I saw a male and a female this morning (maybe two females).
The water was uber still and quite a few birds kept on flying and landing allowing me to get some reflection shots. I probably shouldn't have rushed the processing on this and might re do it. I reckon it's one of my best shots yet though!
One of the many beautiful reflection shots I was fortunate to capture on the calm end of the Gordon River, Strahan, Tasmania...
Refraction and reflections shot through a vintage champagne glass. Pentacon GDR 29 - 2.8. Fotodiox M42 to Nikon F adaptor.
Daffy, the stupid duck, appears to have been spooked by 'Royal Scot' No. 46115 'Scots Guardsman' and has gone for the 'Mallard' equivalent of hop, skip and mess up someone's planned reflection shot. Fortunately the shutter was faster than the duck, which has been captured about to make a big splash in the Dudley Canal at Old Hill just as 46115 passes above working 5Z59 1011 Kidderminster SVR - Carnforth Steamtown on 7th July 2025. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
This was taken near the bridge when you come into the Yosemite Valley. The West side of the valley had a lot more color like this than the East side right now. There were lots of yellow trees that made a beautiful drive through the canopy of color. I plan on going back next week and see how the East side of the valley will look. It looked like it was close to turning color too.
There were a couple of fellow Nikon shooters shooting at this same location. It was their first time in the valley and they were really loving all that they were experiencing. When they were done shooting I snuck in and took a picture of this view too. I told them about another location where they could get great reflection shots and they were excited to get there. I love sharing my photo experiences with serious photographers. Happy clicking!
I've done a few of these reflection shots with spoons and some with forks, but never with knives. I was trying out a few shots today and thought I'd have a go. This is a composite of two shots, one just the knives on the glass with black felt underneath, and the second with the gift wrap held above to get the reflections. edit Then I added a mask and removed unwanted reflections in the glass.
I'd forgotten until I put this in the thread that someone else had already done this. Sorry, Linda, I didn't mean to copy!
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Boreal Forest, Finland
As a change from constantly photographing Brown Bears on our trip, we were lucky to have this one chance for a reflection shot of a Red Fox.
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Waited until the last day of my Banff trip to try to get some lake reflection shots. Luckily the wind was down and was gifted this scene by Mother Nature.