I was very fortunate to have a job which took me places - OPM!

All sorts of opportunity around town - parkland, commercial, residential and broader cityscapes.

Just across the park from us

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Grandpa's workshop was just around the bend, river Irwell, Radcliffe, UK


Condos, Waterloo, Ontario

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Just around the corner from the one above - this horizontal skyscraper was my favourite building in town, but is now obscured by the matured trees


Vienna pool

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Bridges of Paris

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Zanzibar, 1954

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Amsterdam suburb

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Thanks for the come-back - that's interesting. What did someone say is "in the eye of the beholder"?!

Nice ones - sometimes I think less is more.

Oh, is that what they are?! I wondered, but they didn't look too appetizing to me. Now I'd like to plant some of those seeds.

That first one stuns me. It begs reflection on the qualities (and quality) of glass. But it also challenges an attempted reconstruction of what is mirrored. It also intrigues me how the central column of windows (and the upper tiers, for that matter) show so little distortion. Very stimulating

Glad you enjoyed

I like the reeds, but it's interesting how the water under the deck has remained open, producing a nice reflection when the rest of the pond is frozen over.

I wish #4 was mine

Thanks for those remarks Leek. I like those too, but 9 should have been cropped higher, to exclude the lower group of reflections. 7 grows on me as I begin to better appreciate the reflections, of which I was totally oblivious when I shot the image. I have reflected previously on the role of luck in photography and I guess this is another example.

As for my remarks on your 1 and 2, sorry to have been so obscure. Don't get me wrong - I like both those images. And that mauve water hyacynth adds to the perfection. Bane of many African waterways these days, I have seen flower spikes standing a good 2 or 3 feet high in Lagos lagoon, Nigeria.

What I wrestled with was the strong horizontals which seemed at first like waves in the water. Yet that was clearly not the surface, which I take to be marked by the forward edges of the water lilies. So I had to work at that, and concluded that they must be on the bottom, because the leaf reflections are over them. Then, what if they were the reflections of some superstructure over the pool? But they seem to underlie the green leaf reflections running from the water level on the right towards the lower left - oh, maybe that's because the shadows from above fall higher up on the leaves than the reflections we see. I hope you can see what I mean - and I still haven't resolved the puzzle to my satisfaction. Maybe I'm just imperceptive or extra-myopic today.

Thanks Tony