Tag:reflections
Goat Mountain lies about 10 miles south south east of Canmore in Alberta, Canada. Of course, if you’re Canadian, since 1977 that’ll be about 16 kilometers – that’s as the crow flies. It’s a bit longer by the road which twists and turns through the mountain passes and along the valleys. Out of Canmore you take Alberta 742, otherwise known as the Smith Dorrien Trail, and follow it south till you get to Goat Pond. Here I’m shooting almost due […]
As my canopy photos have shown (here and here) the canopy in the survey area in Brunei was not particularly dense hence the proliferation of ground cover and hence the term, jungle.
This series (three shot, 4EV range HDR) was actually shot with the portrait composition. It’s not a crop of yesterday’s image. I like the interplay of the shapes and the colors. The round dots, the rectangular windows the whatever shapes of the chairs. The blue, the white and the red architectural elements complementing the star spangled banner hanging on the wall. The reflections of the clouds and palm trees in the windows of the upper floors. Black and white first today with color below.
I’ve long been fascinated by reflections. I’m like a child seeing itself in a mirror for the first time and trying to make sense of what I see – familiar yet strange simultaneously.
In the summer of 1985 I took off for a rail trip around Europe with a close friend. Having traveled around German, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and (the former) Yugoslavia the previous year, we decided to head to northern Europe and Scandinavia. Having passed through Denmark stopping in Copenhagen, we moved on to Sweden. We were on the train heading to Gothenburg where we planned to stay overnight and noticed the train was unusually crowded. Talking to some other passengers we […]
