Jerusalem, Israel: On entering the bathroom, to shower, one evening, I was bewildered to discover this series of strange reflections on one of the tiled walls. Looking around the room, to find their source, my eyes fell on the double-sided mirror, my wife had just used and left on the sink. Its magnifying side had been positioned, by chance, in such a way as to reflect the light, from three spot-lamps affixed to the ceiling above the sink (and whose direct reflections are visible at the top left of the frame). These reflections, I conjecture, then, ricocheted from the enlarging mirror sitting on the sink, to the much larger mirror, on a door of the medicine and toiletries cabinet, affixed to the wall behind and above the sink - and, from there, to the facing wall, on the other side of the room. Whichever trajectory the light actually took, however, the mystery of the strange reflections was, now (more, or less) solved.
Jerusalem, Israel: On entering the bathroom, to shower, one evening, I was bewildered to discover this series of strange reflections on one of the tiled walls. Looking around the room, to find their source, my eyes fell on the double-sided mirror, my wife had just used and left on the sink. Its magnifying side had been positioned, by chance, in such a way as to reflect the light, from three spot-lamps affixed to the ceiling above the sink (and whose direct reflections are visible at the top left of the frame). These reflections, I conjecture, then, ricocheted from the enlarging mirror sitting on the sink, to the much larger mirror, on a door of the medicine and toiletries cabinet, affixed to the wall behind and above the sink - and, from there, to the facing wall, on the other side of the room. Whichever trajectory the light actually took, however, the mystery of the strange reflections was, now (more, or less) solved.