Photography Showcase: A Different Perspective

[franznietzsche]

Waves in a pond or lake...

water bugs zipping around in the center?

 

[Evo]

Waves in a pond or lake...

water bugs zipping around in the center?

Damn, yes, it's just sunlight relecting off waves, no oil or other surface products.

I'll post the whole picture later so you can see what it is. I'll also post some of the other strange effects captured.

Ok, who else has pictures?

 

[franznietzsche]

Damn, yes, it's just sunlight relecting off waves, no oil or other surface products.

I'll post the whole picture later so you can see what it is. I'll also post some of the other strange effects captured.

Ok, who else has pictures?

Well, it couldn't be oil, oil diffracts light. You'd see colors, not just distortion.

edit: Oil interface with water diffracts light. I believe that's more correct.

 

[Gokul43201]

Ok, who else has pictures?

Got a pic that might work, but it's not a commonly seen thing.

 

[Gokul43201]

Until something else comes up...

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/3838/img2624us4.jpg

 

[Blahness]

Just looking at details here, possibly different due to the picture quality...

There's a shadow from the bottom to the right of the object, which indicates that there's a steady, definite source of light to the top-left, and due to the likely cause of such a shadow type, it's a thin(but not paper thin, think ceramic plate) object near, perhaps, a lightbulb?

Might just be an optical illusion, but can you see sort of under the bottom-right side? Perhaps it's like a bowl.

No waviness or uneven reflection shows that it's all a solid, or, a really smooth, nonreflective liquid.

The outside of the white ring looks almost "depressed", like the white-edged object is pushing it down...

Hmm, I can't take any honest guesses.

 

[Astronuc]

Until something else comes up...

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/3838/img2624us4.jpg

Looks like a sink drain with discolored water draining very slowly.

 

[Evo]

Looks like a sink drain with discolored water draining very slowly.

My guess was my disposal, except without a bottom.

 

[Gokul43201]

Hint: the tiny, white speck inside the "ring" is a reflection of the camera flash.

 

[twisting_edge]

This one should be pretty easy for anyone with an interest in abstract geometry. You have to get the precise figure, though.

Obviously, it's a construct sitting on top of my computer.

 

[GeoMike]

#1
http://www.mcschell.com/guess.jpg


#2:
http://www.mcschell.com/guess2.jpg

#3:
http://www.mcschell.com/guess3.jpg

#4:
http://www.mcschell.com/guess4.jpg

#5:
http://www.mcschell.com/guess5.jpg
-GeoMike-

 

[moose]

#1: end of a hand rail?

 

[turbo]

Until something else comes up...

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/3838/img2624us4.jpg

Are we looking at embyos?

 

[franznietzsche]

#2 Icicles.

#3 Rock

#4 Frogskin

 

[Mk]

1) End of a banister
2) Calcite or salt crystals (can't be ice?)
3) Reminds me of the inside of a lava tube
4) What freaky bug is that?
5) Looks like rocks to me.

 

[GeoMike]

#1: end of a hand rail?

Nope, but it was within a few feet of a handrail!

#2 Icicles.

#3 Rock

#4 Frogskin

#2: VERY close. It is ice but not quite an icile.
#3: Yes. Want to make a guess about the coloring?
#4: No, but it is alive, and it is found in/near water.

1) End of a banister
2) Calcite or salt crystals (can't be ice?)
3) Reminds me of the inside of a lava tube
4) What freaky bug is that?
5) Looks like rocks to me.

1) Nope, but it was within a few feet of a banister.
2) Nope (yes, it is an ice form)
3) It is rock. (not from a lava tube though).
4) It is freaky looking, but it isn't a bug.
5) Yes.

I thought the rock ones would be harder... :(
-GeoMike-

 

[twisting_edge]

#1 probably the top of a blown glass candy dish or something similar, the outside is perfectly smooth (note the curve towards the lower right), but the inside of the glass is rippled. Otherwise it might be a beaten brass doorknob.

#2 is almost certainly frost built up inside an air conditioner. Nothing else I am aware of has those super-fine radiating fins (40 years ago, they still used them in cars, I think).

#3 Rust, at a guess.

#4 is something under a deep layer of clear slime. That's why the reflection looks superimposed like that.

 

[GeoMike]

#1 probably the top of a blown glass candy dish ot something similar, the outside is perfectly smooth (note the curve towards the lower right), but the inside of the glas it rippled. Otherwise it might be a beaten brass doorknob.

#2 is almost certainly frost built up inside an airconditioner. Nothing else I am aware of has those super-fine radiating fins (40 years ago, they still used them in cars, I think).

#3 Rust, at a guess.

#4 is something under a deep layer of clear slime. That's why the reflection looks superimposed like that.

#1 Close. It is glass. And there is something inside of it. But the glass isn't a bowl/dish.
#2 It is an ice/frost build up, but in this case it is natural. Any guesses about what material the ice build up is on?
#3 Yes, rust build up on a rock (you, franz, and Mk nailed that one)
#4 It is a bit slimy.

-GeoMike-

 

[twisting_edge]

#1 Here's a somewhat similar shot I took of a candy dish. I had another one straight down from the top but can't seem to find it.

In this case, most (but not all) of the reflections the plastic gasket inside the dish. It doesn't have the same odd rippling effect, but I've seen that in other glasswork.

#2 Those are clearly radiator fins at the bottom. I have no idea what the ice itself is on. It looks like concrete to me.

 

[DaveC426913]

Hint: the tiny, white speck inside the "ring" is a reflection of the camera flash.

I was gonig to say it's a pic down into a drinking glass, but if that's a reflection of the flash, thast would suggest it is much farther away and much larger.

 

[Evo]

I was gonig to say it's a pic down into a drinking glass, but if that's a reflection of the flash, thast would suggest it is much farther away and much larger.

Yep, that's what I was thinking. Gokul, is that something that a normal human would encounter on a daily basis?

 

[Astronuc]

My guess was my disposal, except without a bottom.

I do plumbing.

Hint: the tiny, white speck inside the "ring" is a reflection of the camera flash.

Shower drain? Or it's a cup of tea/coffee or chocolate/cocoa sitting in a drain.

It is an ice/frost build up, but in this case it is natural. Any guesses about what material the ice build up is on?

Metal or wood. The lines look a little like radiator fins or wood shingles.

 

[Astronuc]

Yep, that's what I was thinking. Gokul, is that something that a normal human would encounter on a daily basis?

If he drinks in the sink or shower.

 

[Ouabache]

This is pretty cool! I remember they used to do this on TV,
where they showed you a closeup photo of a common object and have
folks guess what it was.

I don't recall which show it was on though. Perhaps some of you
may remember.

 

[DaveC426913]

 

[GeoMike]

Metal or wood. The lines look a little like radiator fins or wood shingles.

Yes, it's wood!

Ok, here are the larger images for the ones that were correctly guessed:
#2 Rime Ice on a trail sign: http://www.mcschell.com/guess2_full.jpg
#3 Rusted rock surface: http://www.mcschell.com/guess3_full.jpg
#5 Eroded rock near the ocean: http://www.mcschell.com/guess5_full.jpg

-GeoMike-

 

[Gokul43201]

Normal humans work in physics labs everyday, right? The fuzzy white thing inside the ring is a common enough substance, but the specific arrangement it appears in is probably uncommon. No, it's not a pic down a drinking glass. And no, I do not drink in the depths of my In-Sink-erator!
I'll post another view when I get home in a little bit.

Geo: #3 is some kind of ferritic rock, #4 is something organic (frogskin's a good guess), #5 is igneous

Dave: that sure as hell looks like artificial color; damned if it isn't; and since I'm almost certain you're going to say it isn't, I guess "damned" I shall be.

EDIT: Oops! Didn't read Geo's last post

 

[big man]

I would have thought #1 of Geo's picture was a picture of a brass doorknob, but then he said it was brown glass so I don't know.

#4
Well my original thought was the same as Franznietsche's. But since you said it wasn't a frog or a toad I've been struggling with it. The only other things I know live in water are water snakes, eels and fish and they wouldn't look like that. My only other guess is that it is a baby crocodile or something (because of those sharp looking edges in the top right-hand corner). I also have my doubts about that guess because I doub;t you'd be able to get that close to a baby crocodile and I don't think that they have those sorts of patterns on their skin.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

a shallow river filled with flat stones?

 

[Astronuc]

#2 Rime Ice on a trail sign: http://www.mcschell.com/guess 2_full.jpg[/URL]
#3 Rusted rock surface: http://www.mcschell.com/guess 3_full.jpg[/URL]
#5 Eroded rock near the ocean: [PLAIN]http://www.mcschell.com/gues...rs ago. The industries moved south and west.