When a pond’s surface isn’t still, the reflections in it aren’t like those seen in a mirror…unless you’re in a funhouse where the mirrors create all kinds of distorted reflections. When this American White Pelican paddled across a pond in Arizona this past November, the pond’s surface was ripply from all of the bird activity in it so that the Pelican’s reflection was more like that seen in a funhouse than in a regular mirror. The reflections are sort of Dali-esque; not showing melting pocket watches as in Dali’s 1931 surrealist painting “The Persistence of Memory,” but appearing more like a melting beak. It’s almost as if the Pelican were swimming in a funhouse.
Carol, OUTSTANDING SHOT. It is so sharp and crisp. Well done as usual.
Jim