Landscape Symmetry

Symmetrical pond with waterlilies in the middle.

50mm, 1/165, F/10, ISO 125

At Hakone Gardens, I discovered that symmetry isn’t always about perfect geometry. This pond caught the wild, organic shapes of the garden—the sprawling moss, the lily pads, the overhanging branches—and reflected them back with such stillness that the line between real and reflection nearly disappeared.