Anyone else become weirdly obsessed with photographing reflections in puddles and windows

[BinaryMonk95]

Started as a total accident during a rainy commute a few months back, snapped a photo of a building reflected upside down in a puddle just to kill time, and now I genuinely cannot walk past standing water or a glass storefront without stopping to check the angle. There is something about the slight distortion that makes an otherwise boring street corner feel worth photographing.

The best ones seem to happen right after rain when the light is still a bit overcast, since harsh direct sunlight tends to blow out the reflection and lose all the subtle color variation that makes the shot interesting in the first place. Overcast light after a storm is basically the sweet spot.

Window reflections are a slightly different game since you often end up layering the reflected scene with whatever is actually behind the glass, which can create these accidental double exposure looking shots that are genuinely hard to plan for on purpose. Some of my favorite ones have been almost entirely luck.

Curious if anyone else has fallen into this specific rabbit hole or has a different unexpected subject they now cannot stop noticing everywhere they go. Feels like one of those things that once you start seeing it, you cannot stop seeing it.

Would love to see what other people have captured if anyone wants to share, always curious how differently people approach the same basic idea depending on their city and the kind of light they get access to