Reflections on reflections

 I am no photographer. I just consider myself a "Happy Snapper". And I also think I do have a little bit of an "eye" for certain kinds of images. I don't have a particularly good camera, just a battered Nikon B500 bridge camera with a big zoom. The image sensor is pretty small so it fails in low light and quickly moving stuff, but I make do. And of course nowadays my phone camera is of a much higher resolution (and software capability) than my camera.

My favorite subjects are obviously boats, nature and animals, boats, the female form, musical concerts and did I mention boats?

In the "Boats" folder of my collection there are of course a number of subcategories/folders.

One of them says "Boat Names" another "Cruiseships" and another rather cryptically "Reflections".

I remember the first time I noticed a reflection of myself in the sea while on a boat. It was in 1986 and I was racing on an IOR Quarter Tonner called Glafki II from Brindisi to Corfu in what was the first Brindisi-Corfu rece organised jointly by HORC Corfu and the Lega di Navale of Brindisi. We were becalmed somewhere North of Othonoi and as I looked over the side, camera in hand, I could see myself in full , blue and slightly psychedelic detail. 

In the last ten years or so I have started noticing relections again, and I feel there is something about them. Especially in calm weather, they are always there but it is as if they don't get noticed so much. And then once you ve seen them they won't go away...

Here are a few examples of what I mean:

Summer 2023 returning from Ereikoussa on a very calm day

A mooring line reflected and distorted

Fishing boat in Meganisi

What a bit of polishing can do with the sun reflecting from the sea

A RIB moving along next to us on a calm day

Same RIB again, just colours and glassy waves, an abstract

Sometimes I will throw something in the water to make some ripples

And then they slowly settle

Bavaria reflected

Also amazing, every snap is different

Another rope reflected with the pink sky

Another Kaiki in Meganisi

I have a great many of these reflection photos. Sometimes it is the ky reflected or boats, sometives even a bit of flotsam or a buoy. 

More to come... but the next installment of the blog will be on Boat Names!!