You see photos in travel books in which it is difficult to tell which end is up because of the reflection in the water. These shots are easier to take than you'd think.
Here's an example of this -- the appropriately named Mirror Lake. Find the right shot, put the top of the water at the halfway point of the picture, and shoot. Hard to mess this up. You might want to hurry, though. The lake is slowly draining and eventually will become a meadow.
When this one came back from the developer (I know, it's an old photo), I could not tell which end was up for a while. Finally, I figured it out.
Technically, this is the pooling of a creek and not a lake. I can't say that matters much. This picture is worth much more than a thousand words.
One side note: Ansel Adams once took a photo of Mirror Lake that the park used without his permission. Adams immediately headed to court and won the lawsuit. The relationship between the two sides was never the same after that.
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