I’ve been looking through the Archive while the rain pours down. I remember this image – shot in March 2012 in the Chelsea area of West London. It’s one of those images that you look at and think: how was that shot/created/Photoshopped? The answer is that it is a totally straight image that was a reflection in the glass frontage of a shop – hence some of the text is the right way round and some reversed, but there must have been something a little odd in the frontage to generate that slightly bizarre overlay affecting the car. And as always a slight distortion of the reflection adds a little extra interest.
When in London, I frequently stare into shop windows at the content or the reflections. I get odd looks from fellow shoppers, but that’s the price one pays for finding something a little different from the average.
Any odd looks you may have gotten were certainly worth it (in my humble opinion, at least) for this marvelously intriguing and arresting shot! Nicely seen — and well captured.
LikeLike
Thanks very much Heather
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, don’t worry about the odd looks! Just get the shot!
LikeLike
I agree. A thick skin is a basic requirement of being a photographer!
LikeLiked by 1 person
😀
LikeLike
This is such an interesting picture Andy. As ever, your eye for an image in the most unlikely of places has produced a real gem.
LikeLike
Many thanks Adrian. It’s quite a while since I wandered the streets of London hunting down images. I trust my email reached you safely.
LikeLike
I like the combinations of the mirrored life and just what is in front of the camera. It does create a strange expression, almost as a puzzle for the brain.
LikeLike
Thanks Otto – this one is odder than most.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It reminds me of the funhouse mirrors at the carnivals. We loved to look at ourselves stretched, compressed, and contorted, and never could figure out why one person looked like “this” and another looked like “that” — in the same mirror!
LikeLike
Ah yes – funhouse mirrors, that’s a good description , Linda. I haven’t seen one of them in a long time.
LikeLike
And it gives the women lovely long legs 🙂
LikeLike
Indeed it does – better to be stretched out than shortened ignominiously.
LikeLiked by 1 person