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This is almost Escher-like. Incredible perspective. It is a fantasy feast for my eyes, pulling them into it's center and then outward to explore each path and line.
Love the excellently rendered reflection

Ken, many Thanks. The neg. was badly underdeveloped - so all stops were pulled for contrast. I hope to get a bit wet & play with it some. 'See what could be done w/ a print.

Love this! And I love looking at it upside down. I've done a whole series in Japan of upside down reflections. Thanks for posting!

Its not a small smile that puts on my face, Andrew. Thank You.

Good eye

I will admit that the perspective is optimal but I would have liked a bit more contrast in order to accentuate the already great. Doing that would have added an extra dimension of boldness and definitiveness. - David Lyga

The horizon line is slightly not level - I feel like it needs to either be way more off-kilter, to throw us off the perception of reality, or it needs to be dead level. Also, the upper-left and upper right corners are too bright- burn that down a bit so they're less obvious. and do watch your cropping - there's a tiny sliver of a lamp post or electrical pole or something intruding on the right-hand edge of the frame. Include the whole post if it's there, or crop it out entirely.

David, thank you. My foul up in underdeveoping made contrast super low & the result here is only w/ alot of added electric contrast. 'Nothing beats having it native in the neg. To my eye, the lines have all the contrast I want, but your help makes me look at mid-tones - which seem a bit more flat.

TFC, thank you. As seems to be my habit (and David has been helpful here), I'm so intently focused on trying to get acceptable contrast I didn't even notice the horizon line be a little counter-clockwise. You're right & it makes sense that more or less would be better.

The bright corners - I didn't and likely wouldn't have seen no matter what. With your help - it looks like somehow the top of the frame is left unfinished by the brightness - like the top corners don't have a defined end point.

I see the post now - again, thanks.

You have put this on the critique gallery, so may I say the following:-

This is a great and interesting image, but you have made it too symmetrical. By giving more emphasis to the reflection or the real image above would in my opinion make this a more interesting composition. I put this into photoshop and if you crop level with the top guard rails below the tower at the top and down to the top of the bridge reflection it makes it a much stronger image. But this is only my personal opinion.

Everyone is a critic, no?
Personally, I like the picture the way that it is. Cropping it made it a completely different type of picture for me...giving me a different experience. To me, the horizon looks level. It is the reflection that is not but outside of adjusting the water level of the puddle, I don't think you could do anything about that. Besides, the less than perfect reflection is what tells me it is a natural reflection as opposed to a mirror or mirror image.
Looking at it as if for the first time, HiHoSilver, how do YOU see the picture? I would be interested in your own critique as a patron rather than the artist.