surface deep reflections

While immersed in the Cape's natural landscapes, I’m drawn via unusual angles to unexpected beauty - reflections formed on still mountain and coastal rock pools. I focus on capturing these scenes as they naturally appear, then later flipping the images to explore the dreamlike ambiguity between surface and depth, earth and sky.

boy reflected on three anchor bay contact

Each photograph is a single exposure. No overlays or AI generated elements are used.

What you see is what was present in that split second click - then inverted to reveal how the natural world composes its own illusions.

The resulting images blend rock, sky, plant, and water into seamless forms, where boundaries dissolve and new perspectives emerge to celebrate the Cape Floristic Region's biomes through a lens of subtle transformation.

upper disa gorg


thumbs fynbose

ONE SHOT UNEDITED REFLECTIONS, FLIPPED

images found on water surfaces of Cape mountain & seawater pools.

anemone reflection nicholas ashby

S'Point sucker


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fyn-montane rock



maiden's cove flipped

rock maiden


dog in fynbos

Fyndog, bos


camps bay twelve apostles

2 Apostles


water reflection

2 bosfrogs


disa gorge reflection

deep disa


Saunders pool

lockdown deep


Saunders Tidal Pool Bantry Bay

Saunders Rock, man


beacj road sea point reflections

follow me home


krom river water fynbos

krom cederberg


woman playing on saunders rocks reflected

airball & granite girl


False Bay train reflected in tital pool

... metro 604 coming ...


girls legs and starfish sea point cape town

stars girls


Greenpoint urban park

urban lilly-pads


upper disa frog

the cape-floater


drosera

drosera


fisherman reflected Bantry Bay

hunted hunter


Signal hill from Green point urban park

fynpark fish

4 stripe moon nicholas ashby

striped moon reflected



detail of Sea Point Contact

cape contact not a reflection

but reflected on by Darwin


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