I like reflective images and this is really good. It has a somewhat eerie or spooky atmosphere, maybe the way it undulates or it seems the trees may be attacking, in any case I like the creativity and result........................BR, Holger

Genau wie Holger: ich mag solche Refflektionen. Gut gemacht. Gruß von der anderen Rheinseite.

@Holger: many thanks for your comment & good feedback!

@Franz: auch vielen Dank & viele Grüße über den Rhein :-)

Wolfgang, you are someone who notices images that often don't accord with the usual programmed way we perceive things and organize our world. The way we see things is unconsciously habitual for the most part, I think, and the creative photographer has to find a way out of that culturally conditioned trap as you often do and have done here. Saul Leiter comes to mind. These are not easy images for most people because they don't fit their expectations; they have no reference point. Believe me, I speak from experience.

Jack, you have deciphered my approach very accurately! I enjoy photographing most when I succeed in getting rid of all the ballast my brain carries around and when I can concentrate solely on "seeing" (even at risk of sounding esoteric: it may relate to some extent to a state of flow or egoless zen - very recently I came across Eugen Herrigels "Zen in the Art of Archery"...) - anyway, a "zone" from where every now and then images emerge that indeed can be challenging to most people - probably Markku's Urban Trees (https://www.photo.net/photo/18536987) is also good example.

And, btw. Saul Leiter is one of my favourite photographers - it's remarkable how he was able to find (and create) striking beauty in (at the surface) very simple scenes.

Wolfgang - here are a couple of quotes from Garry Winogrand, one of my favorite photographers: ["If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up"} and in this next quote he's speaking about his frame of mind while photographing ["I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I can come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which to me is very attractive"] Here I think he's referencing the same thing you mentioned in your reply to me "I enjoy photographing most when I succeed in getting rid of all the ballast my brain carries around and when I can concentrate solely on 'seeing'...."

Jack, many thanks for your reply and sharing the quotes from Garry Winogrand (I also find his work very impressive - he was a true master of 'shaking things up').