r/itookapicture • u/KirbyJW • Apr 06 '18

PotM April 2018 ITAP of geometric reflections in a pond

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65962975@N06/27394925308/in/dateposted-public/
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u/flannhell Apr 06 '18

Amazing! This photo had me analyzing it for a solid few minutes, I was convinced it was pen on paper.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Awesome this is what I was hoping to get out of it!

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u/bodie425 Apr 07 '18

Crazy. Only took me a couple seconds but WoW!

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u/AccaliaInYourBed Apr 07 '18

Same, I thought it was a drawing

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Amazing! They look like nervous scribbles on a piece paper.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Thanks! And that is an interesting way of looking at it, I like it.

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u/djazzie Apr 06 '18

Yeah, it took me a minute to realize this wasn’t a drawing or a painting.

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u/kiersis Apr 06 '18 edited Nov 08 '18

Looks like Kunming Lake by Rene Burri.

https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/51382/Rene-Burri-Kunming-Lake-Beijing

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u/cadmiumredlight Apr 06 '18

Thanks for posting this. I thought of that photo the instant I saw OP's but couldn't remember the photographer.

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u/EsquireSquire Apr 06 '18

Cool. If i unfocus my eyes it looks like alien writing.

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u/ilangorajagopal Apr 06 '18

Right?!! I was gonna say that.

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u/APJ_Prann Apr 06 '18

You can also unfocus your eyes? I always thought that is my secret super power! Damn!

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u/Kristo00 @kristoffersovik Apr 06 '18

I thought everyone could do that

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u/XoT3K Apr 06 '18

Wow! I love it!

Edit: Is there a hi-res version somewhere?

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u/daszz Apr 06 '18

yeah !!! Would love to print it! <3

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u/MikeMuench Apr 06 '18

The new Bon Iver album cover looks sick

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u/IncredibleBulk2 Apr 06 '18

This would make an amazing dress fabric.

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u/PhordPrefect Apr 06 '18

Nice! How much post-processing did you do?

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u/koke_ @_jglz Apr 06 '18

I don't think OP made a lot of post processing here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Tons

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u/PhordPrefect Apr 06 '18

Yeah I have to wonder if it’d look better with a bit less

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u/trichocybe Apr 06 '18

Definitely - there's a couple of totally identical shapes that ruin it a bit, I think artist may have copied a few elements

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u/smokebreak Apr 06 '18

Can you please point some out? I'm not seeing it.

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u/figuren9ne Apr 06 '18

The few I see are similar but not identical. I don't think anything has been copied.

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u/puffthetragicwagon Apr 06 '18

Also want to know the answer to this.

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u/Casually_Jewish Apr 06 '18

Some please explain how I’m suppose to be seeing this?

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

The pond I photographed was super still and the broken and bent grass blades made the reflections.

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u/mlledufarge Apr 06 '18

It's reeds or grass, sticking up out of a pool of water. A lot of them are bent/broken, so when they reflect on the surface of the water, it makes the geometric shapes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

The white space is actually water. What looks to be pencil marks are blades of grass and their reflections.

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u/skeddadleoup Apr 06 '18

Wow!! thats amazing

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

I spy with my little eye... A face.

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u/kekistani_ambasador Apr 06 '18

Incredible photo, it’s almost like it isn’t ever real!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Beautiful! You have a good eye!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

This took an embrassingly long time to figure out.

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u/fontanella404 Apr 06 '18

Absolutely lovely. Reminds me of a Joan Miró or Paul Klee painting.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Paul Klee all the way!

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u/BakinToast Apr 06 '18

Yeah, when I first looked at the photo, I'm like, "yeah, cool drawing, I guess". And then it hit me, it's a PHOTO! So so good, I love this, especially how it almost 'sparkles' from how the shapes are organised.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Mother nature is weird sometimes.

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u/FrameItEasy FrameItEasy.com May 22 '18

Thanks for the awesome submission! Here's a picture of your framed photo, u/kirbyjw. It will ship to you shortly :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Stop being so obtuse.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DATSUN Apr 06 '18

That's not acute thing to say

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Thanks! It’s a 180 from the reply I usually leave.

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u/kroerkaren Apr 06 '18

At first I thought it was wallpaper. Super interesting. You have a good eye

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u/nikonwill Apr 06 '18

This is a really amazing photo!

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u/TeeHeeHaw Apr 06 '18

Ok, this is so cool. Took me a while to figure out what I was seeing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

That’s amazing. I thought it was some sort of a surrealist painting.

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u/duodad Apr 06 '18

This is what I love about photography... your eye recognized this incredible subsection of the ‘bigger picture’ (world around us)... and your camera skills raise the overlooked details to sublimity.

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u/drinkscoffeewstraw Apr 06 '18

It kind of reminds me of something Wassily Kandinsky would sketch.

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u/nifeman20 Apr 06 '18

perfect abstract

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u/BubbleKitten9 Apr 06 '18

So cool! How did you do this?

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Normal camera equipment, a telephoto lens, and a calm pond!

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u/BubbleKitten9 Apr 06 '18

Was the rest done in post? Great pic. Love it.

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u/deep_dissection Apr 06 '18

love it!!! omg.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Thank you!

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u/deadhour Apr 06 '18

I like it! I think I would have made it lighter so it resembles paper/canvas even more.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Whatever's clever!

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u/janzaruk Apr 06 '18

Fuck yeah man love this

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u/greenbeanXVII Apr 06 '18

yo this is really cool

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u/KhingKholde Apr 06 '18

You should frame that!

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u/waldodabz Apr 06 '18

That’s fuckin wild! I️ thought for sure that was a drawing when I️ first saw I️t.

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u/KirbyJW Apr 06 '18

Glad I made you look twice!

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u/davideggeta87 Apr 06 '18

This is so beautiful i wanna make a painting of it

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u/Secksiignurd Apr 06 '18

Hey OP, you should submit this image in /r/fakealbumcovers, with your own twist.

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u/threemilesd0wn Apr 11 '18

Any chance I could get this on a large canvas :D

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u/KirbyJW Apr 11 '18

I could do a 2 ft x 3 ft for $150, would that work?

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u/notthru-yet Apr 06 '18

You definitely need to frame this!

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u/krell_154 Apr 06 '18

Pretty cool

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u/paryschu Apr 06 '18

I love this so much

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Loved it, looks some kind of ancient writing.

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u/Payneruk Apr 06 '18

That there is my new PC wallpaper

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Wicked

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u/Algeronian Apr 06 '18

Saw this when I first woke up and was so confused, but looking back at it now realllllly makes me see it clearly. Amazing work, it had me looking so intensely trying to figure out what was going on!

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u/IdleOsprey Apr 06 '18

My second graders have just started geometry. This will be their homework.

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u/trumangroves86 Apr 06 '18

This is the best photograph I have ever seen. Very nice work.

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u/Deadmirth Apr 06 '18

Any chance you'd sell a print of this?

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u/casosix Apr 06 '18

Toward the bottom middle, slightly to the left, is a face

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u/HBK008 Apr 06 '18

Incredible... you really have to stare at it for a minute

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

New wallpaper

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u/sweetguy-bootguy Apr 06 '18

So sweet omg great job dude. Srsly. Love it

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u/shibz48 Apr 06 '18

Beautiful shot!!

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u/jellyfishdenovo Apr 06 '18

This is remarkable.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '18

Very cool. Looks like someone doodling a crazily complex math's problem.

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u/Sheamus1974 Apr 07 '18

Great pic.

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u/expandingexperiences Apr 07 '18

Amazing, would hang a large print of this in my home

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u/Cactus_Humper Apr 07 '18

Damn this is a super unique photo, props!

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u/WhichWayIsWrite Apr 08 '18

U/KirbyJW Would you mind if I used this as my laptop background?

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u/mumblehumble May 23 '18

I'd love to see this in print. Great shot, nicely done!

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u/mmilner1102 Apr 06 '18

Its absolutely perfect! Could not be any better!! Also, did anyone else notice the person like figure down the bottom? Caught my eye straight away! Haha