Saturday, May 9, 2026

Lake Tyrrell selfie moment for black and white community

 


On the endless mirrored flats of Lake Tyrrell, a young woman stood alone upon the narrow platform, dressed in dark yoga pants that traced clean lines against the luminous salt landscape. Around her, the shallow water lay perfectly still, transforming the lake into a vast sheet of polished glass where sky and earth dissolved into one another.

She lifted her phone for a selfie, yet the moment became more than a simple photograph. Her reflection floated beneath her in the water — soft, elongated, almost dreamlike — while the platform itself seemed suspended between two worlds, one real and one mirrored. The pale horizon faded into silver-blue distance, and the silence of the Mallee wrapped around her like open air in a cathedral of salt.

For an instant, she appeared multiplied by the lake: the woman above, the reflection below, and the surrounding sky holding both together in a single luminous frame. In that fleeting act of self-portraiture, modern ritual met ancient landscape — the glow of a phone screen against a terrain shaped by wind, salt, and geological time.

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27 comments:

  1. So stunning. A camera selfie, but also nature's selfie in the water reflection. And the platform, It looks like something suspended between two parallel universes.

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  2. What a terrific reflection. Did you hire her as a photo model? She seems to be calling in a school of fish as she holds her phone high. Perhaps she is a wizard?

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    1. Nah, she was another visitor that tries to get images of sky mirror in the area

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  3. THis is fantastic. On all aspects. Beautiful work

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  4. There's a competion you should enter it in. If I find the link again I'll post here for you.

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  5. this is fabulous....I love the reflection of the woman

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  6. Good and funny photo of the times we live in, I am yet to even think about using my smartphone as a camera.

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  7. Love it the way you composed it, black and white and the reflection in the water, it all looks wonderful and I can imagine that in a frame on a wall.

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  8. It is wonderful! But even without the reflection, it's a graceful, attractive pose. Lots of interest in this one!

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  9. I'd love it if that woman happened to accidentally find this on your blog -- it's such an amazing photo -- both the moment and then the reflection.

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  10. Unos reflejos muy oportunos y bien vistos, un acierto la clave alta, bonita foto.

    Saludos.

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  11. Es una foto especial en la que nos muestras en blanco y negro ese selfi que la mujer se hace y en tu foto se la ve reflejada en el lago. También la veo especial al no mostrarnos el colorido de ese lago que tanto juego da según en que días para fotos especiales.

    Saludos.

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  12. Excellent reflections in the salty waters of this lake.

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  13. Em sembla un composició genial, gairebé amb poques línies.

    Salutacions.

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  14. C'est beau. tu étais à la bonne place au bon instant

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