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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> Challenges From The Past >> 2010 Challenges >> CIC 24: Street Photography (Hosted by tvsometime) >> Exhibition > Mirror
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2007 db.

Mirror

Bordeaux, France

"Miroir de l'eau" fountain:

if you wish to see more of this very special fountain
or--for that matter--of the city of Bordeaux:
http://www.pbase.com/bollag/bordeaux


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Daniel Bollag28-Sep-2010 10:48
I'm not sure, Paul, they're the nozzles too (though they might well be); they are, anyway, the drains. I do not have enough images to document the whole cycle, but you will see the look of the "fog part" of it quite well in my Bordeaux album: <http://www.pbase.com/bollag/bordeaux -- db.
Canon Image Challenge27-Sep-2010 22:03
Now I understand, impossible to tell what they were without your description. Now I know they are water nozzles. Very interesting, do you have any images of it in action???
Daniel Bollag27-Sep-2010 14:51
Thanks a lot, Paul, for your friendly comment! What you see here, is a huge fountain. Two or three times per hour minuscule waterdrops are sprayed from below the surface into the air and form a low and dense fog; then the water settles on the ground and forms the "mirror" you see here; and finally the water flows off. If I remember well, it does so through these "repetitive lines in the pavement", as you call them. -- db.
Canon Image Challenge27-Sep-2010 11:56
I like both the silhouette and reflection in this. I'm kind of wondering what those repetitive lines in the pavement are? Paul Alters