“You must come to them sideways
Sneak a view of their emptiness
Without them catching
A glimpse of you in return.”
Reflection pool at Battersea and Charles Simic’s poem ‘Mirrors at 4a.am’ illustrates how best to take reflection photographs without the unintentional selfie….
“They are more themselves keeping
The company of a blank wall,
The company of time and eternity…
As they admire themselves in the mirror
While you stand to the side”
PoetryPix 
Appended, the lesson learned at a price versus one of no cost, which is the more kept close and which gone the way of another ghost.
you have abstracted a poem yourself here Neil
isn’t that our job?
yes- I guess we are always seeking inspiration
…in words and images: perfect!
thank you Marina – I was struck by the poem in itself and then joined the dots as it were, with these images I had taken last month