Reflections are one of my favorite things to photograph. Water or anything wet are other favorites. The combination of those two things, plus the bright colored lights in this scene made it irresistible to me. I don't know what it is about reflections that draw me so much, perhaps it is how they skew reality ever so slightly (or radically, depending upon what is making the reflection). Maybe it's an image within an image that takes me in, whatever it is, it's powerful. The allure of reflections is something that I can almost never walk away from. In a way, all photography is capturing reflections. Photography in essence is "painting with light" and most of the light that we "paint" with is reflected light. Really, unless you are photographing the sun or another light source, the light you are capturing is reflected. It's showing the presence, depth and detail of the object is bouncing off. So maybe, the double reflection of a mirrored image is what pulls me toward reflective surfaces so strongly.


This is a view of part of the Downtown Chicago, Illinois skyline as reflected in the Cloud Gate, or as it is more affectionately know, The Millennium Park Bean. It was a cold and rainy night, but it wasn't dark in the middle of Downtown Chicago, there were lights, reflected and emanating all around.