On the 21st of December last year, I spent a couple of morning hours in the place called Marina Polesana. Among many photographs already published here on Hive in another marina-themed post, I also caught some reflections. Those December reflections will appear soon in this contest. I'll count till three and they'll start appearing. One ... two ... and ...
... three! The first one is here! This opening shot is also the contest entry.
The calm water of the bay like the one shown in this post is an ideal hunting ground if you are into hunting the reflections. Here you see the slightly deformed, shape-shifting reflection of the upper part of one of the sailing yachts moored in the Marina Polesana. I overturned the photograph because, without the real object that produced the reflection in the frame, the reflection looks much better that way. In absence of the real object, the reflection kinda becomes a real object itself. A slightly surreal real object, I'll say. In the following photograph ...
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... you can see the entire scene. Both, the real and the illusion are included. No Photoshop rotation is involved.
Here you can see some tall industrial structures in the shipyard across the bay. You can also see the lovely elongated reflections of those things.
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Here you can see the wooden bridge between the waterfront and one of the piers. The thing is accompanied by its reflection, of course. The surface of the water this close to the shore is completely still. Like a perfect mirror. In the following photograph ...
... I zoomed in to single out some details of the scene.
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Here you can take a look at the waterfront scenery near the marina.
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Some construction works were going on there.
The reflections in the deeper water were constantly dancing. I used the invert option in Photoshop to change the photographs and spice things up a bit before creating the animated GIF.
Here you can see the scene in true colors. But I did rotate the images before finishing the animation.
This old building was reflected in a puddle ...
... not far from the construction site.
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Here you can see a colorful pole that makes the piece of concrete underneath it more visible. Without that signal pole, the small artificial islet would probably be a danger to the boats. Especially when the tide is high. I like its colorful reflection broken into many pieces by the texture of the water's surface in that part of the bay.
AND THAT'S IT. THE POST ENDS HERE. AS ALWAYS, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.
