On a sunrise walk a couple of days ago, there wasn’t a breath of wind.
The river was a completely still giant mirror.
My intent in my feature photo was to capture the reflection of the bridge railing and the traffic light. When I looked at the photo later, I realized that because of the perfect reflection of the entire underside of the bridge, it looks like there’s no water at all underneath it!
The more I look at this photo, the more reflections I see. I get so excited when I have an accidental photo capture like this one.
This makes me think of those “spot the difference” games where you have to compare two photos and see how many differences there are. This could be a “spot the reflections” quiz. How many do you see?
“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession”
Claude Monet
Radically Retired 
You are exactly right! I thought there was no water under the bridge, and the water began where the fence is reflected. I thought there was some water (not too deep) on the other side of those three large columns. Then my mind told me the water became increasing deeper in that area as it neared the fence line and the retaining wall – thus why there was more reflection there. This is how my mind processed the picture on the initial look. This all happened in an instant in my brain. So interesting what the camera captured and how our brains process. We live across from a small lake, and I love to see the reflections in the water. Right before it freezes, it is like a mirror. Great photo!
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It’s definitely interesting how our minds process things like reflections and optical illusions. I remember once last summer, I was leaning over a shallow puddle to photograph the perfect reflection of the sky, clouds, and trees. It looked incredibly deep and I felt like I was going to fall in, lol. Thanks for reading, studying the photo, and for commenting, Betty! Enjoy your Sunday!
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