Photographers, like magpies seem to be attracted by anything shiny. Reflections in sunglasses, puddles, tables and highly polished automobiles are all regularly used in an effort to portray people or events in more interesting ways. Far more pictures are attempted than are successfully achieved and few of those are more succesful than this example by Damir Sagolj.

In Damir’s cleverly composed picture a rose lies on the bonnet of the hearse carrying the coffin of the late Milan Jelic, president of Bosnia’s Serb Republic, during his funeral.

The rose transects the diagonal division between the clean dark background and the reflected sky. Around the rose the faces of a group of mourners are reflected in the paintwork, crucially their expressions are too indistinct to distract attention away from the flower, they are the supporting cast to this single white rose.

It is a beautiful, sombre image which eloquently conveys the sadness and pomp of the occasion.