Just before our house was built some friends brought us a few seedlings from their own garden and helped us plant about a dozen trees around the plot to give them a head start. Thanks to them we already had something like a garden when we moved in. One of trees they planted was an ornamental palm that now six years later stands tall and proud outside our front door.
I took the photo of its reflection in the concrete water container first just after I had topped it up and the glinting sun told me to. I then realised there must be a few other reflections I could take of the same palm in different surfaces. The patio doors were obvious and easy but I couldn't get any of the window reflections to work very well. I wanted to find more.
The car windscreen would have been obvious except for the cover we keep over it to stop a sparrow from attacking its own reflection! Perhaps it was the sight of this bird that made me lift the cover for a look. Three down, what else?
The sun burning off the last of the clouds brought out my sunglasses and photo number four. And please note that out of consideration I cropped this picture so you don't have to look up my nose!
Then slight desperation that the game might have ended made me look in the front of my camera's lens which was the trickiest reflection to photograph. Doing this made me also think of my phone screen which really is a great reflective surface - if the screen is ever off.
I was tempted to scout around for more, perhaps bring out some shiny kitchen appliances for example, but decided I had probably gone far enough (this time, at least). So I really did feel like a reflection hunter today!
