Ever wonder what your reflection does once you move away from the mirror? It can make for good stories if you let your mind go there...but the physics of it all is that your reflection simply ceases to exist. I like reflections(if you couldn't tell from my countless posts using them) and I find them useful to me to see angles for photos that I couldn't get with out the mirrored image. Last Friday I had to photograph a graduation/dinner at a country club style restaurant. And I had limited time. So as I was trying to find pictures to tell the story with difficult lighting and separation between presenters and audience I began to look at the possibility of silhouettes. This wasn't working as a story telling way, but I found myself making several frames. This is a picture of the main guest speaker John Stansfield as he gave his speech. He is reflected in a mirror that was behind hime. Why I chose the mirror instead of just his silhouette was simply based on the angle of the background, the mirrored image was a brighter background. My vantage point placed the outside trees behind him, the angle in the mirror went more into the sky and waters of the lake. Again, this wasn't the picture for the story, but it was fun to make. And its a little more visually interesting than a standard podium shot Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.