A Mirror Image Made Painterly
While I was cycling in Austria on a mostly overcast day, the sun laid down just enough light to paint this colorful but wobbly mirror-image into the muddy canvas of the Danube River, in a painterly style befitting an Impressionist artist, and I looked through my Canon viewfinder, wanting to capture the brushstrokes. ❦
Inspiration came from The Daily Post‘s Weekly Photo Challenge—mirror—to share this photograph from my cycling travels along the Danube River in June 2016. For my PhotoTips, look here HERE.
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This is a wonderful picture!
Thank you, Nadia! Warms my heart to hear this.
Great shot! I have seen that many pictures from Europe have such beauty. Lovely.
Secretly, I wish to cycle on the streets of Austria 🙂
No need to be secret about it…everyone there cycles everywhere!! Hope you get your wish one day.
Such a beautiful country. Loved it when I used to go to Europe several times a year.
Thanks, Susie, nice to hear from you. I found Austria very lovely when seen from a bicycle seat. 😀
A nice use of motion to convey a painterly effect.
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Well I couldn’t have stopped that river if I tried! Thanks 😀
Beautiful reflection in calm water ! European houses are beautiful.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for your nice words.
Beautiful, Jann. Did you ever wonder what inspired Strauss to call it The Blue Danube?
Thanks! you know, there is a section in Ulm where the Blau River becomes the Danube and is blue there, though I didn’t see it, which may have been the inspiration. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blau_(Danube)#/media/File:Ulm_27_-_Blau.JPG
Mostly it was a big wide gray and sometime muddy river…quite fast. not exactly romantic. But great to cycle along.
Exactly, Jann, especially muddy where the Inn joins at Passau! Thank you for the link 🙂