Street reflections

New York street photography with reflections in puddles or windows glass.

Street photography often becomes most interesting when the city reflects back on itself. Reflections—whether found in puddles after the rain or in glass storefronts—create layered scenes where reality and abstraction overlap. They allow the street to be photographed from a different angle, compressing space and merging foreground and background into a single frame.

Puddles introduce distortion and movement, reshaping buildings, people, and light into temporary compositions that disappear as quickly as they form. Window reflections add another layer, mixing pedestrians, traffic, and architecture with interior elements or graphic surfaces. These moments are brief and unpredictable, but when they align, reflections turn ordinary city scenes into images that feel both familiar and slightly disorienting.