Tag: Reflections
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The encounter
The encounter Light reflections make for intriguing pictures. I like posting them on my blog now and then (look for them under Reflections tag). In the 3-dimensional world we often see reflections without really noticing them. Our brain immediately filters them out; we look through them. But on a photograph they clearly show up. The…
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Reading reeds
Reading reeds A delightful tangle of lines, open triangles and dense clusters: broken reeds in the sunlit water at the end of the day. Nature’s playfulness verging on abstraction. Photo of the week: Manipur, India 2014
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Tactile Arts
Tactile Arts A ceramics exhibition at the Tactile Arts gallery in Darwin. What holds attraction for me though is not inside but at the other side of the window. Do I see it right, this fairylike spectacle? Tactile Arts. To touch is to feel is to make sure. But no, let’s not spoil the illusion.…
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Invisible water
Invisible water At this spot, the River Aiguillon has carved out a basin in which water collects. You can’t see it, but the photo proves it’s there: I can make out certain features and shadows with their reflections beneath them. But I can’t tell how far the water reaches up the wall of the basin.…
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Art with a wink
Art with a wink One girl is looking intently at the other, and vice versa. They are both completely fascinated by the sight of the other.I remember having, a long time ago, a booklet intended to be humorous, entitled ‘Art with a wink’, with a winking Mona Lisa on the cover.Here, it is not the…
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Still waters …
Still waters … run deep. That is indeed the impression we get when we look at them from the right perspective, as we did in last week’s post when we looked down upon Diamond Lake. But here, standing on the overgrown bank of the lake, we see nothing but a reflection in the still water.…
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Diamond Lake
Diamond Lake A name that truly does justice to this gem, framed by its green rim.Seen from above, it reflects the unfathomable firmament, yet at the same time it also alludes to its own dark depths. Photo of the week: Diamond Lake, above Lake Wanaka, New Zealand 2013
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Ganesha in France
Ganesha in France We’re looking at a shop-window in which we can distinguish an image of the Hindu god Ganesha flanked by two attendants. At the same time we see the facades of French houses reflected in the windowpane. Two typical cultural images, one Indian, the other French, unexpectedly merged into one. It leaves us…
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Reflection in the Himalayas
Reflection in the Himalayas The snow-capped mountain in the sunlight is the image reflected in the window through which I took this photograph. In reality, the snow-capped mountain, which is the Nanda Devi, is behind me. If I were to turn round, I would see it through a window opposite the one through which I…
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Eclipse
Eclipse The sun shines through a window into a room. The rays fall onto a stainless steel water filter and are reflected on the wall behind it where they produce this intriguing image. The image, with its bright halo around a dark centre, reminds me of the solar eclipse I once observed. But there are other…
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