Color, symmetry, and composition are just some of the great elements you can focus on when taking photos of reflections. For our recent Quest, we asked you to submit your best photos of reflections, and the results were stunning.

The winning image was Joan Gamell’s “Pyramid in a puddle.”

Pyramid in a puddle by Joan Gamell on 500px.com

Meet the photographer: “I picked up photography early in my childhood—I was always snapping pictures with several compact film cameras—but it was not until my teens, in 2004, when I started learning the manual settings and experimenting with them, thanks to my dad’s Nikon D70. I’ve been self-learning photography since then.”

Joan gave us the story behind the photo: “I took this picture in Hoatling Pl., a small alleyway in San Francisco right in front of the Transamerica Pyramid building. It just rained a couple of hours before, and I noticed the reflection in the puddle by chance. Thankfully, I had my camera at hand. Post-production was rotating the shot and adding some contrast.”

Want more creative ways of capturing reflections? Check out our runners up below.

Fishing to Xing Ping Village by fabrizio massetti on 500px.com

Reflection of beauty by Aibek Akhanov on 500px.com

Mount Taranaki by Aaron Jenkin on 500px.com

Morning silence... by Krzysztof Browko on 500px.com

Silence by Rekha Garton on 500px.com

The Past Whispers by videophotoart com on 500px.com

A photographer by Chaiyun Damkaew on 500px.com

The little crocodiles of Germany by Björn Reibert on 500px.com

Just a frozen lake by John Wilhelm is a photoholic on 500px.com

Did you miss this Quest? Check out upcoming ones here.