One of the most fotographed reflections, I believe, is Nagasaki’s so called spectacles bridge:
The water was not perfectly still that day, and for this competition a more personal picture feels more apt, but I wanted to show this classic too.
I was thinking of entering this one, because makes me smile when I run across it in my catalog, but I decided to enter something more arty-farty instead.
Free smells in the city (hmm)!
I LOVE this! If I only put artsy stuff in the competition thread then. . . I’d never put anything in the competition thread. I guess my very poor showings reflect that.
I’ve been very impressed with the quality of the photos in the contest thread, including yours! Very hard to pick three when it comes to voting time.
On more than one occasion I’ve had difficulty deciding which picture to enter after narrowing it down to two or three. And that makes me tempted to start a poll to ask which one I should enter. But that kind of feels like cheating, so I don’t.
I have always had a tendency to get artsy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I like to take pictures of mundane things that catch my eye in a weird way. The photo I posted for this month happened that way. I passed by the lamp one night and thought the crystal cat in front of it looked cool with all the reflections. That led to a series of photos of lamps in my house. This one also fit the category but I went with the more artsy one. 
This is the first picture I thought of for the Reflections competition. This is a lake at Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. The lake was absolutely glass smooth, with a perfect reflection. Unfortunately I didn’t get the exposure correct so that both sky and reflection could be seen.
This lake had a floating bridge, so as soon as you walked on it, the lake got ripples and the mirror was ruined. (I was the only one there at the time, so I only had myself to blame!)
I love the Bean though! I don’t usually “get” art, but that is a beautiful object. And now I recall that I have some pics of it too…
< kicks self >
I had a choice of two images taken at the same location, and I went with the less literal one for the contest, but this one is nice, too:
This is the photo I was trying to take.
There’s been a constant 12-15 mph wind round these parts for literally weeks - no unruffled surfaces of water to be found. We’re going on vacation, and I won’t be able to post photos so, sadly, I’ve been obliged to use an archive pic - Trumpets Hill Road is impassible. But in a good way.
If anyone is interested, I was out on the bike on a really nice day, the day after some really heavy rain, got as far as Trumpets Hill Road and … ah, the picture tells the rest. Had to find another way home.
j
I’ve been having a tough time with this assignment as well. I may wind up using an archive picture but I’m not throwing in the towel yet. Hey, when’s the deadline? 
Ah! Never mind: 9pm UK time on Monday 19th June
Good on you!
BTW - here’s another archive photo which I considered… nah, not really. Plus there’s the embarrassment of me being in it. And it being a Cleveland Browns hoodie (disclaimer - since the DeShaun Watson thing, I consider myself stateless).
It’s not a very good photo, but it’s an interesting effect. No prize available, but anyone care to explain what’s going on?
j
Two mirrors at right angles?
Now that I look closer, I can see the middle of the picture is the corner. The pump bottle is reflected in one mirror, and the red and blue package is right next to the other
If there was a prize available, you would be walking away with it now. The mirror runs along the back of - is it called a vanity table? - with “wings” at 90 degrees either side. The image on the left is a double reflection (back mirror and side mirror - you can see the join), the image on the right is a single refection - by locating yourself carefully, you can get both in shot. First time I ever really noticed a mirror like that.
j
ETA - I think we just did the editing version of crossing posts
I was going to use the following photo instead of the one I entered for this month, but too many folks attach religious connotations to it. It was, however, taken on Good Friday many years ago in the Hatcher Pass region of Alaska. Just a sliver of sunlight shining through a very gloomy overcast.
I’m debating between two different pics. One is a more literal interpretation of the theme, the other is definitely a sideways interpretation, to the extent that I guess it might be considered grasping at straws - but is probably the better photo.
Hey, come on, you could have crossed that on a bike!
The 90° was easy for me too: we had the same setup in the kitchen where I used to have breakfast when I was a child. Memories!
Why should that be a problem?
If anyone is offended by an expression that can be taken as religious, then it is the one who takes such offense that has a problem, and not the one making such an expression.
That’s a perfectly fine picture, and if it was mine, I would seriously consider it as an entry into this competition.
I’d spotted this little pond as an ideal place for reflections - black swampy water with a rocky abutment tunneling under the railroad tracks. But it’s kind of precarious, two lane road on top of a levy. I got the car just off the edge of the road above the swamp and used it for support. Lined up my shot and pressed the shutter button. Got the message “Re-insert memory card”. Arrrgh!
So, I later replaced the memory card and opted for reflections in the dirty car rear window in Publix parking lot. But, hey, its not archive.