Mirrored Waters
On the stillest mornings, the water becomes a second sky as mountains double, trees invert, and the worlds above and below hold each other in perfect symmetry. These images are organized entirely around that precise mirroring, capturing the fleeting moment when a reflection becomes just as real as the physical object it reflects, and the lake surface turns into the most ordered thing in the landscape.
Reflecting Spire | Lake Heron, Canterbury
Mirror-Like Mitre Peak | Fiordland
Mount Taranaki Reflection | Taranaki
Still water is rarer than you'd think. Wind arrives without warning, a bird drops in from somewhere, and whatever had been holding there is gone. These images were made in those narrow windows when everything paused long enough to let the lake do its work.
Golden Tree Reflection | Pekapeka Wetlands, Hawke's Bay
Framed in White | Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
Lake Camp Dawn | Canterbury
There is something in the geometry of a still reflection that feels less like accident and more like the landscape briefly revealing its own underlying order. The mountain was always symmetrical; it simply needed the water to prove it. I find myself drawn to these moments not because they are pretty, which they often are, but because they show you something about the physical world that is genuinely there, waiting for the right conditions to become visible. The water holds still, the form doubles, and for a few minutes the world appears more balanced than it is.
Silent Erebus | Ross Island, Antarctica
Monuments in Gold | Wharariki Beach, Tasman Region
Pouakai Tarn Reflection | Taranaki
Connected Perspectives
BY LOCATION
Explore the geography and specific local horizons that provided the canvas for these works:
Antarctica
United States of America
BY NARRATIVE
Read the stories into the 'why' behind the work — the method, personal reflections and the journey:
The Mirror Disappears, the Print Endures
A reflection lasts seconds. The wind arrives, the surface breaks, and whatever the water was holding is gone. A selection of images from Mirrored Waters is available as archival fine art prints, made to preserve that moment of stillness in a form that doesn't disappear with the next gust. If one of these reflections has stayed with you, it can stay with you properly.
