Paris reflection

My Flickr contact Johan Talens posted another amazing window reflection taken in Paris with a Ricoh GR.

Marseille Harbour sailboat reflection(s)

My Flickr contact Werner Schwehm posted this terrific window reflection of sailboats in Marseille, France. Brilliant shot and the fact that he got square with the windows took care of the geometric distortion that’s common in shots like this.

Reflection

On the Appalachian Trail, Gaylordsville, Connecticut.

A few weeks ago we had a day of high winds in western Connecticut and because this area is pretty rocky and trees aren’t deeply rooted, wind can uproot and knock over even very large and old trees.

The section of Appalachian trail between the New York/Connecticut border and Bull’s Bridge is called “Ten Mile Hill” and it’s a very nice four mile hike. The recent wind took down over 20 large trees on this section and we had a big crew of “sawyers” and “swampers” to clean it up. It was a lot of work and I was pretty sore when I got home (nothing beer and ibuprofen won’t fix).

Toward the end of the day I took a few shots of a nice reflection on a small swamp. I was so tired my hands were shaking and I was pretty sure none of the shots would turn out but thankfully a few did.

Street reflection

My Flickr contact obtus took this interesting reflection somewhere in Japan with his Ricoh GR. This is a terrific genre and a number of my Flickr contacts are really good at it. Almost looks like a double exposure which the Ricoh GR is capable of in-camera, but it’s a single shot of a window.

Falls City, Nebraska

My Flickr contact Jack David Hubbell took and posted this edgy reflection (I assume of himself) in Falls City, Nebraska.

Pond in the dunes with reflection

My Flickr contact and friend Gary Sharp posted this terrific image of a pond in the middle of some dunes with a great reflection on it.

Reflection in the dunes

My Flickr contact and friend Gary Sharp posted this great, high contrast shot of a reflection on a pond on the Oregon Coast, taken with his Ricoh GR II.

Portrait

My Flickr contact Tatsuo Suzuki posted this brilliant reflection portrait, taken with a Fuji X100F in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

Reflections in Sage’s Ravine

f/8.0

Sage’s Ravine, Connecticut/Massachusetts border.

We took a nice hike down Sage’s Ravine and up onto Mt. Race. The water in Sage’s creek was low but there was a nice reflecting pool and I stopped and took a number of pictures at different apertures, less because I knew what I was doing, more because I’d forgotten which apertures I liked the effects of water ripple/reflections taken at. So, when in doubt, shoot a variety.

The problem is, I like the ripples at f/3.5, f/8, and f/11. They’re all interesting. So, I’m posting examples taken at each.

f/3.5

f/8.0

f/11.0

Freedom Tower reflections

One World Trade Center reflected (Fuji X100F)

Manhattan, New York.

My long time Flickr friend Dilip Muralidaran, who I’ve known since my first years on Flickr (2004-2006) but have never met, told me he was going to be in New York and he’d never been there before. So, we met up and had a great day of it. He wanted to get up in a big building and since both of us had never been up in One World Trade Center (the new Freedom tower) I thought that would be a good thing to do.

I’d been up in the twin towers (original world trade center) numerous times so being up this high on the tip of Manhattan wasn’t new to me. Still, it’s a thrilling thing to do.

The views are terrific but the experience is ruined (IMHO) by too much commercial up-selling (trying to pry more money out of tourists).

One World Trade Center reflected (Fuji X100F)

Old and New (Fuji X100F)

This shot is a reflection of the tower from the window of the 9/11 museum just south of it and includes an image of the original World Trade Center. I found it more photogenic in reflected shots than strait on.

New York Harbor (iPhone 8)

This is the first shot I took out the observatory window and given the reflection on this side I was worried all our images would have issues. This is the only shot that had a lot of reflections, taken with iPhone 8. I kept this shot because the patterns on the water, the ships in the harbor, and the Statue of Liberty make for a very nice image, even with the people reflected in the background.