Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2025

DOWNTOWN ABSTRACT


Turning the lens a few degrees to the right of yesterday’s photo of the Arch. The shot is into the side of a curtain wall building, which, of course, is not perfectly flat. The reflection on the left is the high rise hotel I’m standing on. The tan one farther back on the right is a tall courts building. The city lies between.              

Friday, March 1, 2024

CITY DAILY PHOTO MARCH THEME - REFLECTIONS IN WINDOWS

Did somebody say McDonald's? Looking east on Chestnut Street from 4th Street toward the local icon, with the ground floor of a downtown office building on the left. The view is roughly east southeast near sunset.

Check out the photons bouncing back at other City Daily Photo members at https://citydailyphoto.org/category/theme-days/ .            

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

ALL SEEING EYES

This could be my entry for the City Daily Photo monthly theme, reflections in windows, but it isn't. Directly behind where I stood to take yesterday's photo was another old and possible abandoned building. Someone had some fun with a window. Big Brother may be watching you.              

Saturday, February 12, 2022

I'M MELTING...

Snow doesn't usually last that long around here. Warm temperatures and blue skies create a stream along the riverfront, reflecting a railroad bridge and the graffiti section of the Mississippi flood wall.                

Thursday, February 10, 2022

RETURN OF THE THURSDAY ARCH SERIES

I suppose that was an Arch picture yesterday but it was upside down. Here's a proper, right side up image, still with good effects from the snow melt.                   

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

BACK AGAIN

For something that claims to be a St. Louis photo blog, there have not been any pictures of St. Louis for a long while. We've been home a week and it's time. I had my fourth vax shot yesterday morning at the huge medical center in midtown (no side effects), so I brought my camera and went by my old office to say hi. After lunch I went out cruising for images. The weather has turned from frigid to spring-like in a week. The melt-water creates reflections everywhere.              

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

THE MANY FACETS OF CHLOROPHYLL

A bit abstract. I like how the bands of algae on the pond in the Japanese garden look like geological layers, how its green blends into a reflection of the blue sky, and how the reflection of the tree adds another physical dimension.  

We will be in Kansas City by this afternoon.              

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

REMNANTS OF CRISTOBAL


Over the last few days Hurricane Cristobal swept straight north across the Gulf of Mexico and the central U.S. We were brushed by it but no significant effects. It made for nice reflections, though. This downtown office building is maybe 40 years old, all curtain wall, no windows you can open. It may storm outside but the occupants are quite isolated from the elements.   

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

HOW TO DECORATE A HONDA


The automobile in this picture is a black Honda Accord sedan. Nothing flashy. Comfortable, reliable, affordable transportation, and practical since almost everyone in America needs a car. As it happens, I drive one myself. But, just occasionally, a modest Honda gets kissed by a fairy and ends up looking like this. Obviously, it's the reflection of the Wheel.            

Friday, December 15, 2017

Trompe l'Oeil


A French art term, literally to deceive the eye. The idea is to depict in two dimensional space something three dimensional and to make it look very real, and often at the same time impossible. Here is an example

There is something of that here: Arch reflections in two curtain wall buildings with different color glass. The one on the right is a block behind the other.      

Saturday, August 29, 2015

What?

Lantern Festival MoBot 2015-08-28 1

Scene from an outdoor event Mrs. C and I attended last night. It's late as I write this and I'm pooped out. Clearer images and explanation tomorrow.                 

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Thursday Arch Series

An image half-way between two varieties of my Arch photos: reflected in a building but in black and white. The spire and flag pole sit atop the Old Court House. Some history and links to other photos of this historic building are in my post of June 9.

TOMORROW:
Wet, very quiet.