23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Spectral Mirroring

“Spectral Mirroring” is a quiet search for the images that appear between seeing and imagining — reflections that hover like shadows of light. In the work, the refraction of water becomes a moment of distortion, where the familiar slips into something dreamlike.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2024
Date Uploaded: 11.2025
Photo Location: Taitung, Taiwan
Camera: X-T5
Copyright: © Yi-Hsin Shen