Window Reflection

One of the things I benefit from by going to my local photography club meetings is our series of monthly shooting themes. These suggestions often get me out there and try for compositions I wouldn’t otherwise go for.

For this month, one of our themes is reflections. On my photo walk today with my Nikon FM10 film camera in hand, I’ve tried to capture some interesting window reflections off a restaurant window. I worked this composition by focusing on the salt and pepper shakers and capturing sidewalk passersby out of focus. Mostly I got lame exposures. But to get that one keeper image, you have to keep at it.

From this came the one image that I was very pleased with:

The abstracted appearance of everything in the reflected background—the brightly lit street scene, the tree shadow, and the woman’s motion—is something that I find quite compelling.