Reflection

I love to photograph reflections. And they relate to photography immensely. In photography, many things aren’t but reflections. In most cameras, what you see through the viewfinder is nothing but a reflected view of the world.

So, reflections play a big part on photography. It’s sort of like Plato and the cave. It’s nothing but shadows, fixed shadows.

However common, I don’t find it easy to include reflections in photography. Not in a way that it’s interesting to see.

In this picture, I think it works fine. As the reflection is on water, and it’s blackened by the fountain’s tiles, it makes it interesting to watch. It gives it a surreal quality of a reflected, upside down, world.

This photo was taken in Amsterdam, in the airport, with a digital SLR camera.