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Reflective ball in front of the National Research Council in Ottawa. The full tree reflection in the ball is the tree beside it to the left.
The very well restored paintwork on a former Wigan Corporation Leyland Royal Tiger bus
Seen at the Lancashire Mining Musuem during a festival.
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.
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.
Crocheted a circle with black eyelash yarn and Kreinik Reflective Yarn together, then attached it to this $2 feathered headband.
Light reflectors made of sheet metal and finished in metallic reflective paints were designed to add to the ambience of the house. The lights were grouped in such a way that different parts of the house could be lit depending on which part was occupied.
My favourite kind of photography - Boudior photography. Sensual and sexy, yet flattering and pleasing to the eye.
Our camera club Set Subject for the month was to take a 'Self Portrait' - these are my attempts.
Maybe a bit over processed? Been playing with a free software I got PhotoDirector. I wouldn't have paid for it but not bad for free.
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.)
C&NW 4551 has some nice reflective material and herald shines when it's photo is taken in the shop at Marshalltown, Iowa.
Photo taken with a Minolta 35mm camera, and photo scanned.
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
The wheel is the first part of a bicycle that's visible entering an intersection with poor sight lines, so it seems like a good place for added conspicuity.
I don't know of any formal studies, but personal experience suggests drivers find it easier to obey the law at four-way stops and crosswalks when my front wheel has these M-Wave spoke reflectors, which are basically lightweight plastic clips covered in 3M conspicuity tape.
The frame tape doesn't seem as important for safety, but it was a used frame in plain black with some finish issues, so I wrapped the top and down tubes with engineer-grade red reflective film, finished with yellow reflective tape at the edges.
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.
London Ambulance Service Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 8667 – Tower Bridge Road, London
Identification
This 24.5-second video shows a London Ambulance Service frontline emergency ambulance travelling south along Tower Bridge Road in Southwark, having just come across or from the direction of Tower Bridge.
The vehicle can be identified unusually precisely from the footage:
Service: London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Vehicle: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI Automatic emergency ambulance
Registration: LX69 AYD
LAS fleet number: 8667
Role: Frontline emergency ambulance
Both LX69 AYD on the front registration plate and 8667 on the upper rear body are clearly visible in the video. Independent emergency-vehicle records also identify LX69 AYD/8667 as a London Ambulance Service Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI frontline ambulance.
The ambulance has its blue emergency warning lights operating as it approaches and passes the camera. The footage does not establish what incident it was attending or whether a patient was aboard, so I would describe it simply as travelling under emergency conditions.
Location
The video was filmed on:
Tower Bridge Road, Southwark, London SE1, England
More precisely, the camera is on the eastern pavement of Tower Bridge Road a short distance south of Tower Bridge, facing north at the beginning of the sequence.
A very useful location marker is the Betfred at 216 Tower Bridge Road, visible on the right side of the street. That premises is recorded at 216 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 2UP.
Tower Bridge itself is directly ahead, with the huge stone arch of the South Tower providing an unmistakable backdrop. Tower Bridge's official address is also on Tower Bridge Road in SE1 2UP.
Description of the video
The sequence begins looking north along Tower Bridge Road.
In the distance, the enormous Gothic arch of Tower Bridge's South Tower fills the end of the street. Its pale blue suspension structure can be seen through and beside the stone arch.
Traffic is relatively heavy, including a red double-decker London bus heading towards the bridge.
Emerging from this traffic is the bright yellow-green London Ambulance Service vehicle, approaching the camera in the southbound lane with its blue lights flashing.
As it draws closer, the front markings become very clear:
LONDON AMBULANCE
The Mercedes-Benz star is prominent in the grille and the registration plate LX69 AYD becomes readable.
The ambulance then passes very close to the camera, allowing an unusually detailed view of its side and rear emergency equipment and reflective Battenburg markings.
The camera turns to follow it south along Tower Bridge Road.
At the rear, the markings include:
LONDON – AMBULANCE – NHS
and the fleet number:
8667
There is also the characteristic high-visibility red-and-yellow rear chevron pattern. The blue warning lights continue flashing as the vehicle moves away through the traffic.
The ambulance – LX69 AYD / 8667
This is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI Automatic, part of the heavy-duty Sprinter family widely used by the London Ambulance Service for its frontline emergency fleet. Specialist vehicle records specifically list LX69 AYD / 8667 as a frontline emergency ambulance.
The “69” registration dates the vehicle's original UK registration to the period beginning in September 2019.
The Sprinter provides a substantial chassis capable of carrying the ambulance body, stretcher systems, medical equipment, oxygen, communications equipment and crew while retaining the performance required for emergency response in dense urban traffic.
Mercedes-Benz has had a significant relationship with LAS; the Service itself describes Mercedes-Benz as one of its major ambulance suppliers.
London Ambulance Service
The ambulance belongs to one of the world's best-known urban emergency medical services.
Organised ambulance provision in London has a long history. The London Ambulance Service's own historical collection dates the establishment of the service to 1 February 1915, when the London County Council began providing a full-time ambulance service.
The service's historical timeline notes that London's earliest ambulances were horse-drawn, while the first petrol-powered ambulance appeared in 1904 and could carry one stretcher at speeds of up to about 15 mph.
The organisation recognisable as today's London-wide service was created in 1965, when parts of nine separate ambulance services were brought together into a single service for London. In April 2025 LAS marked 60 years since that reorganisation.
That makes the vehicle in your video part of a lineage stretching from horse-drawn ambulances through early motor ambulances to today's sophisticated emergency vehicles.
Tower Bridge backdrop
The location makes the clip particularly effective.
Tower Bridge spans the Thames between Southwark and Tower Hamlets and opened in 1894. Its huge South Tower seen directly behind the approaching ambulance is not a medieval castle tower despite its appearance, but part of an advanced late-Victorian bascule-and-suspension bridge.
The result is an excellent emergency-services image: a modern London Ambulance Service vehicle with flashing blue lights approaching directly beneath one of the most recognisable architectural landmarks in London.
Why this video is especially useful
For your emergency-vehicle collection, this one is particularly good because the vehicle can be identified right down to registration and fleet number:
London Ambulance Service – Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI Auto – LX69 AYD – fleet 8667.
It also records the ambulance both front and rear, with the camera following it after it passes, while Tower Bridge establishes the London location immediately.
Ultra-distance cyclist Mick Walsh often rides at night, so he wanted to add reflective elements to his new fully custom MeiVici SE. The blue stripes and white logos are all reflective.
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.
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