Getting reflective by the beach

That Mackie's view
Port Stanley, ON
August 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I don’t take all that many selfies, as I figure the world has enough images of me as it is.

But I have a thing for anything involving reflective windows, with bonus points if they’re at or near the beach.

None of this has to make any sense, mind you. We each like what we like.

So whenever I’m down by the lake, I’ll stand near Mackie’s, the iconic resto facing Port Stanley’s main beach, and use its just-as-iconic facade as a photographic muse.

This isn’t the first landscape window selfie I’ve taken here, and that’s entirely by design. Because every time we return here, I want to have at least one memory of standing in the sand and feeling the warm wind in my face, of what it sounds and smells like in that singular moment.

Photos are mere springboards to memories. So we take them over and over. And we hold onto them, the images and the memories, as tightly as we can.

And if the only way to get the shot is to sneak into the reflection, so be it.

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