Watching the sunset is a sublime and magical experience, but it doesn’t last long and reminds you of the passage of time. There is another sight, equally mesmerizing, and limited only by your imagination: surface of water and reflections.
Water reflects everything and distorts everything. It blurs the boundaries between the real and surreal. Water is an enigma.
I want to share a video, a beautiful interpretation of Claude Debussy – Reflets dans l’eau – Reflections in the Water by an Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, one of the most enigmatic performers of the twentieth century.
There are a few images from a man-made lake in the Johnstown Castle grounds. All the images are created by light and shadows, weeds, reflections and ripples. Please click to enlarge them to appreciate the beauty of the Nature’s paintings.
Have you ever heard about Memory of water? A study supporting this controversial theory was published in 1988; it is when I first learned about it. I find this theory quite fascinating and hope that there is something beyond the simple chemical H2O.
You can also read about the surface tension to refresh your high school knowledge and reflect on the progress you have made since then 🙂
I have many more images of reflections and hope to share them in the future.
Photography tip of the day: to reduce glare and unwanted reflections, use a polarising filter. The size you want is the diameter of your lens.
Have a good, productive week!
Really enjoy your blogs! Love this one on cats – glad I found your site!
Thank you so much for your so kind comment! Hope you find your own good memories reading my blog.
My very best wishes to you!
How delightful, Ines! You capture the reflections so well 🙂
Thank you Christy! I did nothing to make them look nicer than they were 🙂
Stunning! I love the shimmering effect of the water!
Thank you! I too. Never getting bored 🙂
Beautiful Inese, some of these look like abstract paintings.
Thank you Andrea! It is what they look like 🙂
Lovely pictures and article:)
Thank you for stopping by! Have a great week, and especially Saturday! 😉
wonderful post!, I’vr written many poems on this topic, one of the nicest reflect I’ve ever seen was in Kew gardens, if interested:
http://poemsandpoemes.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/painted-haiku/
the second picture is amazing, the wawing, immobile waving, just amazing! thank you so much for sharing such veauty 🙂
Thank you for stopping by! Your image is beautiful, it looks like a painting! World is a beautiful place, and the phenomenon of reflections is a delightful bonus:)
These are lovely! They’ve got me wondering if watching reflections on water inspired the early impressionists.
I think so 🙂 The techniques some of them use are the replicas of reflections in the water.
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautiful pictures of water, water surface. I think it has memory effects of calm and peaceful here.
Thank you for reading! I too believe that water is more complex than it seems, and it does have a calming effect.
Have a nice and calm week! 🙂
Thank you and please do the same 🙂
Amazingly beautiful, dear Inese… The first photo reminded me of Monet’s paintings… Beautiful effect of watery reflections…
And last but not least, Debussy fits perfectly here !!! 🙂
Thank you very much for sharing, all the very best to you,
Aquileana 😀
Aquileana – thank you again for your kind comments. The impressionists must have learned their style from the reflections:) It truly looks like Monet. Each ditch and pond in that park looked like Monet:)
My best wishes to you!
Hugs, Inese
I think it totally does!!!…
Amazing right?
Many hugs, Aquileana 😛
Thank you for sharing this! So beautiful!
The water lilly picture was taken at the river. A motor boat made some waves 🙂
Hugs!
They are exquisite. Your posts are so inspiring, Inese!
Thank you so much, Kate. You too kind!
Beautiful lily pools captured. It took me a long time and a lot of frustration before I found my polarized filter. The tip is great for anyone who doesn’t know how much it helps for sure!
It does. Takes some time to get used to it, especially in low light.
wow – I like any reflections in the water – just brilliant!
Aren’t they? One can watch them forever 🙂
Beautiful images. They remind me so much of the artist Monet.
Thank you ! 🙂 The water did look like an impressionist painting!
“And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Genesis). The incredible thing about water is though cleansed and transformed so many times it’s the very same water that flowed from the dawn of the earth. Beautiful pictures each a work of art. I can imagine them on 6ft. canvas’s mounted on white walls, they would be incredible!
I too love this verse. You can check out the link, Water memory. Some people think that water holds the memory of creation.
Thank you for your kind comment!
Beautiful photos and perfectly blend in to the accompanying music…they are soo relaxing 🙂 Have a great week to you too!
Thank you! 🙂
I particularly like your first image….
Thank you! 🙂 It was taken some 5 years ago. I was walking in the park and there were ditches full of water all around ( after the heavy rains). Early April, young leaves look like the strokes of painting brush.
Beautiful pictures, and that piece of music playing in the background matched them perfectly. It’s incredible how musicians can capture visual ideas and concepts in sound. If you’re interested, have a listen to the work by cellist Zoe Keating…for me I find she’s able to do the same 🙂
Thank you so much for your comment. You are so right about music, it truly is another language.
Heading to youtube, thanks! 🙂
Beautiful pictures…made me (almost) forget that it is Monday 🙂
Thank you! I scheduled it for tomorrow, but my day had a bad start, so I thought i would post it today just to listen to that video:)
Very nice article and pictures, as usual! I always enjoy your thoughts on photography, and life in general.
Thank you so much for reading, Julie! Have a wonderful week!