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Early morning light. I didn't enhance this lighting in photoshop, even though it almost looks fake...
840mm, 1/1600 sec, f/6.3, ISO-640
Josiah McElheny's "Extended Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction" at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Reflective Building. San Francisco, California. July 9, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Reflections in the windows of a downtown tower, San Francisco.
I photographed the exterior of this building while walking in the financial district of San Francisco in the early evening. I was mainly shooting street subjects with a 50mm prime, but fortunately I had a telephoto zoom in my bag that I could use to isolate this section of the building from its surrounding context. In addition, I decided to take some liberties with the image in post, including some serious perspective adjustments that brought the vertical lines into nearly parallel alignment.
When walking around in an urban environment like this one, it is easy to focus on the grit and "reality" and noise and all the rest. But if you look past that you can find some astonishing images in this environment, some of which are quite abstract and perhaps border on hallucinations. This is a building - that is fairly obvious. But what in this photograph is actually the building? Not much. The thin, darker vertical lines are the frames around the window glass, as are the even thinner diagonal lines running upward from left to right. If you look closely you can see a few bits and pieces of what is inside the building, mostly in the form of interior lighting. But the main portion of the image is not really the building at all, instead consisting of warped and distorted forms that are the reflections of its surroundings, reflected in its glass surface.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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our newest round of reflective clothing. quite visible in lights at night
The Nike free run 2 id custom shoes shoes really reflect
both I and the wife have the same or almost same item and we get complements on how visible we are after dark.
Snow -- especially fresh snow -- reflects the lights above and around it, making winter nights bright, but it also seems to glow on its own. Sometimes it's easier to drive down a snowy street at night than a clear one because the reflective snow allows you to see so much better. (This is the square in front of Faneuil Hall.)
550EX into a reflective brolly with a large grid streched across it. I picked up the big 60" grid out of the bargain bin at my local studio/lighting shop for $10AU.
Originally on a Fire Door, this sign fell to the ground and I noticed that the braille was reflective. It makes no sense to me as to why there is reflective braille.
Koyuki, Pullip Chill, returns to her stock color scheme- black and white- with touches of silver. The whole look was inspired by the silver Fashionistas heels pictured in the next photo.
Shirt dress and leggings (not pictured) by Cool Cat. Bracelet and heels (also not pictured) by Fashionistas. Necklace(s) are re-purposed people-sized jewelry.
Some reflective zipper pulls that I added to a couple of my jackets using Kelty triptease and some cord stoppers. The two on the right have zipper pulls whistles on them from GoingGear.com. Photo created for use on Brian's Backpacking & Hiking Blog.
This building, completed in 1928, witnessed the Great Depression, a World War, and other tumultuous times, but it cannot endure the ravages of a cannibalistic commercial real estate market in Manhattan.
This sturdy fixture at the iconic intersection of two of the city's major streets, Broadway and West 57th Street, is known to many as the Newsweek Building after the magazine moved its headquarters here in the early 1990s. Originally it was called the Columbus Tower, soon it will have part of than name restored to it when it is renamed 3 Columbus Circle, but everything else will be about this building will be left only to fond memories and photographs.
The buildings columns, cornices, bricks, and windows are being hidden (or removed, no one is sure which) behind another curtain of reflective glass. Gone will be the sense that here stands a rugged old friend who has weathered good times and bad and still stands guard at the head of the street. Instead, another shiny, slick, featureless clone of every other post-modern edifice churned out by the hundreds these days. The new building's website states, "Enduring Location, Modern Vision." Odd that it doesn't boast an "Enduring Vision," or perhaps, "Enduring Edifice." I suppose the developers realize that nothing is enduring except an address.
Notice how the waning sunlight strikes the varied surfaces of the building. Note too, the warm afternoon glow on the brick facade. The varying shapes of the shadows cast on its surface. Never again will that play of light be enjoyed here, instead only cold reflections of the surrounding buildings. The building will have shape, but no sense of a tangible surface.
How long must American cities be wrapped in what amounts to shrink-wrap and aluminum foil? If the old techniques which constructed this building are a lost art, then why must we destroy the remaining relics of a bygone age? Do we knowingly destroy a Michelangelo because there are no more Michelangelo's sculpting? This building's exterior hasn't been cleaned in decades, what would it look like if it was given a good scrubbing? We'll never know. It wasn't given a chance to spruce itself up.
For more information about the demise of 1775 Broadway, check these links:
curbed.com/archives/2008/01/28/meanwhile_in_architectural...
Inspired by my husband's Carradice Barley bag, I've made a prototype of my own. The best cheap canvas ($2.99/yard) was white, and yes, I know it will get dirty. It's a prototype anyway.
The straps are the buckle portion of old belts that I got in the dollar-a-pound section of the Garment District, in Cambridge, MA.
3M Scotchlite reflective tapes came from various eBay sellers.
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Reflective cycle chic from Lostvalues at the 09 London Cycle Show. Stylish clothes and accessories that look normal in daylight but reflect at night. www.lostvalues.com
I always enjoy taking a little time to enjoy the fountains of the WWII Memorial while my students are roaming around DC. It's very relaxing after a long week in NYC.
Single interface anti-reflective coating performance @ ~550 nanometers
Green curves are for uncoated crown glass w/ index of refraction n~1.52
1-layer curves are for 1/4 wave layer of MgF2 (n~1.38)on Crown Glass (n~1.52).
The two layer mult-coating of two 1/4 wave layers of MgF2 (n~1.38) & SF8 (n~1.7) on crown glass.
The dashed lines are for TE or s-polarization and solid lines are for TM or p-polarization.
The two dips at ~50 & 56 degrees occur at the Brewster angle where the TM wave component is preferentially transmitted into the lens. This dips at the Brewster angle aren't too useful in lens design because the reflectance of the TE component dominates. e.g. It's better to be on orange curves than either the blue or green curve even at the Brewster angle.