Reflection – Decaseconds

Smooth Water (Finally)

2026-Sep-23 adohertyhLeave a comment

I’ll spoil the double meaning of this title: On the one hand, very literally the waterfall in Stone Valley is ending on the left side of the image and smoother water is in the river’s future. But in a photographic sense, this is an image that I couldn’t previously share because the mist from the waterfalls spotted the lens so badly that the image was hidden behind a layer of dark spots. The improved spot removal tools in present-day Adobe Camera Raw have finally allowed me to effectively get rid of those spots (and I’ve learned some other photographic tricks in the meantime), so this image is ready to face the light of day.

Maó by Night

2026-Aug-17 adohertyhLeave a comment

Docked boats, harborside establishments, and tall cliffs look like the ideal Mediterranean setting for a cartoon bear’s (or perhaps pig’s, but we know that’s the Adriatic) fictional home base.

Dawn Greets Out Arrival to Maó

2026-Aug-14 adohertyhLeave a comment

On the deck of the Wind Star, the arrival of dawn matched our arrival into the deepwater harbor of Maó. The details on either shore (captured in this more-than-30,000-pixel-wide panorama) are well worth clicking through to the full-sized image.

Hints of Structure on the Shore

2026-Jul-312026-Jul-29 adohertyhLeave a comment

Narrow sticks emerge at regular intervals from the water, silhouetted in the reflected sunset, raising more questions than they can answer along the shoreline of the evaporating Salton Sea.

Lights from the Public Library

2026-Jul-24 adohertyhLeave a comment

The lights of the Hartford Public Library in the foreground provide a safer, more orderly home for the eye than the highly abnormal weather feature expanding forth around Travelers Tower like some portal to an evil dimension.

Salton Sea Ω

2026-Jul-202026-Jul-21 adohertyhLeave a comment

When I added the “Ω” to the title of this image, I imagined endings across multiple dimensions of time: Certainly, a sunset is the end of a day, but I was also thinking on the longer scale of how the slow march of evaporation and desert climate are continuously shrinking the Salton Sea. In a more personal sense, this was likely to be my last visit to the Sea—at least in anything like its current state. All of those combined finalities made this one worthy of being the omega.

Barcelona Masts

2026-Jun-29 adohertyhLeave a comment

The quantity and density of masts past a threshold where individual shapes transitioned into a single texture.

El Far Verd with Afternoon Traffic

2026-May-222026-May-26 adohertyhLeave a comment

The Green Lighthouse is “El Far Verd” in Spanish—”It does what it says on the tin.” Speaking of “tin,” the general aesthetic of the lighthouse really shouts for a certain twentieth-century adventure from the likes of Tintin.

Towers’ Spring Reflections

2026-Apr-292026-Apr-30 adohertyhLeave a comment

Bushnell Park in Hartford plays host to spectacular spring sights that juxtapose nature and life with the stark linear forms of skyline towers. I love the effect—but then, cities are my favorite places.

Summer Job

2026-Feb-092026-Feb-10 adohertyhLeave a comment

As summer jobs go, lifeguarding on Lake Mohonk seems like a pretty good one.

Sunset on 2025

2025-Dec-31 adohertyhLeave a comment

We’ve reached the end of 2025 and I’ll celebrate with what I think is one of my best shots of the year—and also just chronologically one of the last shots of the year. The tiny camper van and far-off lights add a sense of scale, saying “goodbye” to the distant events of that past time. Happy New Year!

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