Some reflection images

Those that have been following along for a while know that I'm nearly obsessed with reflection photos. Given a chance, I'll abruptly change course and try to work the scene. 

As a general rule, to get a good reflection photo you need 3 things. Something interesting to show up in the reflection, a surface to reflect, and a place to capture the reflection. It's harder than it sounds. Something interesting is quite straightforward, but near a reflecting surface can be difficult. But the surface has to be calm, although a long exposure photo can work some magic, it can also introduce other perils. Counter intuitively, the best reflection surfaces are black. A thin sheet of water on pavement is great. Calm murky or muddy water can be really good, and actual swampy water can be astonishingly good. The place to stand or put your camera can be the hard part. I once watched one photographer walk out onto Highway Three in a rainstorm, put his camera in a puddle on the double solid line, click a couple photos and come back. A moment later the truck roared by, but he had captured the truck under a double rainbow. Sometimes the place to stand is actually in the swamp, or a scary scramble down to the water line and I probably won't do that. 

These are the reflection photos from the trip, in the order taken, or almost so, that do not include those chosen for Image of the Month. They're already selected and the blog written.

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3. Linda and the rental car.

4. This illustrates the perils of the long exposure. The water is smoothed out, but the trees are moving and the water still isn't completely flat.

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13. This isn't quite the composition I wanted, but neither did I want to go back to the car to get the wider lens and stand in the creek to be in the right place for it. The footing was really tricky here.

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15. The view across a river from the Bouctouche Botanical Gardens. Several slightly different treatments. Plus several others from the Botanical Gardens.

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20. Part of the view from the one lane Shediac Bridge that I'll talk about in Image of the Month.

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22. This is the bridge that I did some of the reflection photos from, especially the two that show up in Image of the Month.

Again, I'll pause the Of the Day feature so I don't overwhelm you with photos. It will return.