Mini Challange # 182 - Reflections

kentwallerkentwaller Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
edited February 23, 2014 in The Dgrin Challenges
Mini Challange # 182 - Reflections
<HR style="COLOR: #d1d1e1; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d1d1e1" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title -->I think some of the most beautiful photographs are those that show a reflection of some sort - usually with water, but not necessarily. Show me your best reflections, be it a pool, or a mirrored window, or whatever. Not really looking for the idea of "reflecting on the past" as that would take us down a whole different road. Lets keep it to actual, physical reflections. Looking for your best quality photography here.

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  • puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2014
    Stable relationship.
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    Repeated as I knew where to find it, others do it, but mainly because the original intent was to capture the reflection, rather than anything else :)

    pp

    (others might follow - but it's a difficult topic for me ... )
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2014
    A little blue bath
    JW3_7220-XL.jpg

    something I said
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    A peli can do it

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    Jeff W

    “PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”

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  • Gary752Gary752 Registered Users Posts: 934 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2014
    Oldest operating ferry boat system still in operation. This is at the widest part of the Susquehanna River which is 1 mile across. These are SOOC.

    #1 The Roaring Bull on a foggy morning.
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    #2 The Falcon
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    GaryB
    GaryB
    “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” - Ansel Adams
  • lifeinfocuslifeinfocus Registered Users Posts: 1,461 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    Time to reflect
    "Double Reflection" (Reflect on this - a reflection within a reflection - a mini lol)

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    "DOW Garden"

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    "Christmas Tree"

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    http://www.PhilsImaging.com
    "You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
    Phil
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    1) Clear reflection, oriental pond,
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    2) Life Imitating Art
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    3) Plum in the Shade
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    Don
    Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    Balboa Park Reflecting Pond
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    Me, Myself, and I
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    Window Pane
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    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • slpollettslpollett Registered Users Posts: 1,219 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    1. This isn't one of my best photographs ever, but it is an odd reflection that I ended up liking in spite of the images shortcomings. This was taken at a zoo through one of those (dirty, smudged with kids fingerprints) viewing windows that lets the visitor see underwater into the alligator area. This is the underwater part of the alligator reflecting back.
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    2. Vogel State Park, Georgia with Blood Mountain in the background
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    3.
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    Earache wrote: »


    Window Pane
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    Back in the 60's I'd see everything like this with a little Window Pane! :Drolleyes1.gif
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    Don
    Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
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  • CavalierCavalier Registered Users Posts: 3,061 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    Tenaya Lake - Yosemite

    IMG_1907%20PS%20and%20T%20for%20Challenge-XL.jpg

    Eastern Sierras - June Lake Loop

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    Puget Sound - Strange watercolor effect due to the 2X Extender used with 200mm lens. I decided I liked the effect. Small reflection, but it is there.

    IMG_1294%20crop%20Topaz%20detail%20and%20adj%20no%20border%20signed-XL.jpg
  • 1magineer1magineer Registered Users Posts: 95 Big grins
    edited February 9, 2014
    Serenity Waits

    Kayak_Sue_119-2-L.jpg

    November Riverbend
    FisherMeadowsRiverBend-240DPI-L.jpg

    Christmas, Waterford Beach

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    –Mark

    "Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls..." ~Rumi
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  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2014
    Swan Lake

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    dave.

    Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
  • grandmaRgrandmaR Registered Users Posts: 2,198 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2014
    I can't hope to compete with so many marvelous photos - especially the horse's eyeball. So I'll submit a couple of ones for your amusement. Reflections are something that I have been playing with for 56 years - not only regular reflections like in water, but a whole bunch of selfies. These were picked because they are not reflections in water or in a mirror.

    This one is one of the first photos on the first roll of film that I took with my first 35 mm camera - a selfie of me when I was twenty years old in the bulletin board on the square at my college.


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    The very first photo in this roll was a reflection in a basement window but it is light struck because it was partly on the leader. (I guess some of you don't remember loading film and leaders, but in back in the day I hated to waste film - not only did we have to pay for the film, but we also had to pay to have it developed) My dad gave me the camera as a 20th birthday gift. It was a Kodak Retina Reflex.

    This next one is also a film photo from 1964 - my family (my me, kids and my husband) reflected in the hubcap of our VW bus. But it should not be considered for the challenge because after looking at it carefully - I think it was taken by my dad. It is interesting so I'll leave it in here - my dad was doing reflections in odd surfaces even before I was.

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    I'll substitute in here a reflection in a train window in which I am a headless photographer

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    And I'm still doing reflections - this one was the sink of the bathroom on the Disney ship - June 2013

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    “"..an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." G.K. Chesterton”
  • kscooperkscooper Registered Users Posts: 387 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2014
    Killdeer:

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    Least Sandpipers pre-dawn:

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    100 grams:

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  • ShootingStarShootingStar Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2014
    Some wonderful photos already!
    kscooper I am amazed by that sandpiper shot!

    Here are my entries

    1. Cradle Mountain
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    2. African Meeting point
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    3. Loving my face right now!
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    Cheers

    Claire
    Nature can be so different around the world but it is always amazing!

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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2014
    #1
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    #2
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    #3
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    Kate
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    "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
  • kentwallerkentwaller Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2014
    Wow - tremendous work in here so far - keep them coming!
  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited February 12, 2014
    A bit different :)

    The actual tiltle is ... "Reflections"

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    Cedric
    PS: that's a spoon reflecting a multiplication table set

    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
  • puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2014
    crevest wrote: »
    ... a spoon reflecting a multiplication table set

    Simple - but effective ... nicely done :)

    pp
  • jpope42jpope42 Registered Users Posts: 150 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2014
  • silvio000silvio000 Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2014
    So, this is going to be my first time at the Mini Challenges, hope it all goes well.

    1. The Mustang
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    2. The Double Reflection
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    3. My Perfect Reflection
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    Regards,

    Sílvio Oliveira

    Sílvio Oliveirawww.silviooliveira.net

  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    Simple - but effective ... nicely done :)

    pp

    Thanks Paul !

    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
  • crevestcrevest Registered Users Posts: 51 Big grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    jwear wrote: »

    A peli can do it

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    Very nice ! The left wing is actually touching the water isn't it?

    Everything is a matter of perspective
    http://www.in-perspectives.com/
  • 1magineer1magineer Registered Users Posts: 95 Big grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    Love this!!!
    kdotaylor wrote: »


    #2
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    –Mark

    "Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls..." ~Rumi
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  • 1magineer1magineer Registered Users Posts: 95 Big grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    Love this, too!
    jpope42 wrote: »
    Sky Boat

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    –Mark

    "Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls..." ~Rumi
    _____________________________________________
    My SmugMug Galleries
  • 1magineer1magineer Registered Users Posts: 95 Big grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    And loving these, too... :-)
    Earache wrote: »
    Balboa Park Reflecting Pond



    Me, Myself, and I
    i-KDHFrzN-S.jpg


    Window Pane
    Window%20Pane-S.jpg
    –Mark

    "Conventional thinking is the ruin of our souls..." ~Rumi
    _____________________________________________
    My SmugMug Galleries
  • shawncshawnc Registered Users Posts: 718 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    Love the reflections! Never posted in one of these challenges, I have a few reflection shot and might as well play along.

    "Last Rays" Sedona's Soldiers pass
    Canon EOS 30D
    ISO 100
    Focal Length 22mm (35.2mm in 35mm)
    Aperture f/8.0
    Exposure Time 0.04s (1/25)

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    Duck "Basking in the Light" Sedona's Cathedral Sunset
    Canon EOS 30D
    ISO 100
    Focal Length 33mm (52.8mm in 35mm)
    Aperture f/9.0
    Exposure Time 0.01s (1/100)

    Cathedral_Rock-XL.jpg

    "Upside Rightways" Docks near Indian rocks bch, Fl. intercoastal waterway
    Canon EOS 50D
    ISO 100
    Focal Length 70mm (112mm in 35mm)
    Aperture f/4
    Exposure Time 0.0012s (1/800)


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    Any comments welcome.
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    1magineer wrote: »
    And loving these, too... :-)
    Thanks Mark.... looks like you found lots of love just-in-time for Valentines Day... thumb.gif
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2014
    crevest wrote: »
    Very nice ! The left wing is actually touching the water isn't it?


    Thank you if you look close the frame before this one both wings were touching but it was not sharp ,the line is still in the water :D
    Jeff W

    “PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”

    http://jwear.smugmug.com/
  • marionetmarionet Registered Users Posts: 382 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2014
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  • kridpicskridpics Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited February 15, 2014
    Just back from Kyoto: Heian Jingu Shrine
    Even before the cherry blossoming, Kyoto is already worth a visit!
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