Reflections

People usually look at me funny when they see me taking photographs of empty water. Even when they ask and I tell them it's the reflections they still don't get it. I expected the same when someone came along as I was taking this next photograph. But instead he said "reflections make good photographs, don't they". A fellow reflectionista.

To get color in reflections, there has to be something with color being reflected, like a rusty barge.

The other factor is the ripples in the surface of the water. To get a good abstract pattern you need enough ripples to warp the reflections into interesting shapes. But not so much that the reflections get destroyed.

Sometimes the reflections just make a good background.

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