Wonky Reflections

This week for the Lens-Artists Challenge, Anne invites us to focus on Reflections. She, and now many others, have shown us photos of astonishing beauty featuring the natural world. I thought I’d go down a different road, and look at distorted reflections.

I love the scene shown in the featured photo. It comes from Strasbourg, and features a mirror reflecting buildings from an unlovely part of town, then the home of lots of car parks and redevelopment.

This next one isn’t distorted exactly. But it is hard to read. It’s a pond landscape which to me looks like an expressive painting of … who knows?

I’m beside water for my next one too. The Leeds-Liverpool Canal. What’s different about this one is that it’s the water that reflects on the concrete above, rather than the other way about.

What next? A bit of a Rubik’s cube of images. I feel if you pushed these individual reflections-in-windows about, you might come up with complete pictures of the buildings reflected here.

And here we are in Zaragoza. Are we looking at the relics in the Roman Museum behind the glass, or the street outside’s buildings and trees?

And here’s a couple of images from London’s Gasholder estate.

And finally, an image from home that I’ve shown before, and will surely show again: I love it. Sunrise on Christmas Eve a few years ago.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

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    1. Ah! I’ve not been to Prague. And now it’s Tourist Central, It’s fallen off the Must Visit list. I’ll just settle for reflections on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. Thanks Susan.

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  13. A great take on the challenge! The distorted reflections are fun and I love your description of that windows shot as a ‘Rubik’s cube’ 😀 The Christmas Eve window is a beautiful festive gift!

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  22. Neat!
    I had to Chicago for business yesterday, and there were some interesting reflections of clouds on theskycrapers, sometimes giving the impression that you could see the clouds through the buildings!
    Unfortunately I was not in good shape, and didn’t take time to stop and take pictures. Just wanted to get quickly out of the stinky pollution

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  25. A love response to the challenge, Margaret. Your reflections—both visual and written—are always a joy to experience. The way you capture the world through your lens reveals such subtle beauty, even in places that might be overlooked or forgotten. That featured photo from Strasbourg is striking—how the mirror transforms the ordinary into something almost poetic. Thank you for a great week to begin my weekend.

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    1. Thanks so much Rebecca. I loved how something striking had been made in a -frankly unlovely – part of town. And yes, several of these shots started out from unpromising beginnings.

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  31. The wonky featured photo is amazing. I also like the last window. It seems that the reflections are coming from different places.

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