SUNDAY

Yet another picture that gives a very warm feeling. One reason is because it's my last journal post and two is because of the deep fire red that reflects calmly off the ceiling. It's very clear that it's there but not over wheeling or hard to look at. It goes well with its surrounding.

SATURDAY

This is what your picture looks like when you have been walking in the rain all day and driving even longer. This picture gives me a very comforting mood and warmth. Since you can only see parts of the white sheets lit up from the angles of which the sheets are laid, it reminds me of the ocean

FRIDAY

This picture is CRAZY. Look at the reflections from the hotel levels in my back window. They way the back window is curved outward to bend the reflections down on the sides. It's as if my car back window is layered about 20 times.

THURSDAY

This picture is of a cup from my hotel with a flashlight shinning up through the bottom of it. The light shinning though hits this cup differently than normal ones. This cup has a very detailed texture that makes the light seem as if the cup is not even plastic. Another illusion they light can play.

WEDNESDAY

Im outside and it's raining. There is minimal sunlight coming trough the clouds. From the puddles on the asphalt there is a great deal of specular reflection. A perfect image from an undisturbed puddle of rain. It's crazy how water Re-create a mirror image exactly when not touched.

TUESDAY

This picture is off a direct sunlight at about 3 o clock judging by the shadow. The shadow is what I wanted to point out in this picture. Its very direct light so the shadow is very vivid and makes a exact replica of what the wooden rails actually look like. Certain shadows can play a trick on the mind of thinking that it is actually something else. This one kind of looks like a long ladder.

MONDAY

This is picture I took about 5 years ago at the river back in virginia. It was a warm night and the sun is just about to hide away. I snapped this picture in effort to catch the warmth of the overall feeling that day I would say that I succeeded. I also like the light reflections off the water. Very intense spread reflections. I also like the surrounding clouds and how they are lit up.

SUNDAY

First off I must say that the iphone has an amazing camera that can take very detailed pictures. This picture is of a rubber matt that is bolted to my sidewalk about 5 feet from my front door. I don't know what this thing accomplishes other than tripping people up from time to time. It's easy to tell that the sun light is coming in from the right at about a 45 degree angle. Notice how small the little bulges are and how long the shadows are on each of them. This picture gives off a very warm feeling and gives me a feeling that the matt is heated up.

SATURDAY

This is a picture of my beautiful girlfriend that visited a few weeks ago. We want on a nature hike and I snapped this picture of some direct light from the sun shinning down on her leaving a very vivid shadow of her exact pose. Her shirt she is wearing is kind of pinkish red. It is on the brighter side. Before we left the house, her shirt was more of a dark red more than anything else. It;s funny how bright direct light can can the color of things such as clothes.

FRIDAY

After the gigantic flames settle down and hide away. The burning pine needles are left to cool off. When something is so hot it tends to turn a very deep and warm reddish orange. These colors you can just stare at for hours. The light coming from the very hot pine needles is not bright yet it is very easy to see. This pictures represents how light and color can be dramatically effected by the temperature of an object. Once we are ready to retire for the night, we smother it with water and it immediately turns pitch black.

THURSDAY

Tonight my roommate makes another fire. This one was a pretty big one to say the least. He never let go of that lighter fluid in his hand. The one thing I notice is that it doesn't matter how dark it is in one area.. when you light a fire that big, It illuminates everything in its area. The 5 other apartments beside us were all lit very well and easy to see everything on each patio. The color a fire gives off though can play tricks on the human eye as to what the actual color of something is when being lit by the fire. I also like the 45 degree angle shadow climbing up the wall. It looks like a intense shadow yet in person it was actually weak and the fire light is easy to bend around.

WEDNESDAY

From the same night as the previous picture, I took this one while playing a game. The lights that caught my eye in this picture is the 4 colored light on the right that are above the picture but the reflections are visible in the floor. They look like a mix between a spread and a diffuse reflection. I base this on the actual look of the reflection and the actual material of the tiled floor. You can tell they are lights but they are spread out across the floor as a bigger image than what the actual size is. The outcome of the reflection I think gives the bar more character.

TUESDAY

After a long day I like to enjoy a beer. Laying right behind this glass of beer is my friends lit up phone. You cant see the phone but the light that is coming through the beer is truth enough. It amazing and beautiful to see the different colors between just shinning through the clear glass and then the glass along with the beer. The beer is a deep darkish yellow pee color but with the light shinning bright from the other side, it makes the color of the lit beer a lot more tolerable and nice looking. It even gives it a little bit of a greenish tint. The other thing about this picture is the refraction going on with every aspect of light. The phone is right next to the glass yet there is no light down towards the bottom of the glass. This proves light does bend in different mediums.

MONDAY

This picture is of a fire we had in the backyard the night of the Grammys. I snapped a picture of a half full brown Budweiser bottle with the fire shinning through in the background. The fire was very bright and this bottle is very dark brown but transparent. The warm color and feeling that comes through this bottle is very vivid. You can also see the reflection from the beer that's still left in the bottle.

Budweiser Commercial

SUNDAY

This is a video of the CPR call I worked yesterday. I wanted to point out to the very reflective drum heads on the drum set as well as his cymbals. The light off the cymbals are very reflective, near perfect reflectors of the sun source light. The drum heads are about the same but more on the specular reflector side as far as seeing the angle of incidence in them. Also notice the shadows of the people walking in the background of the lawn section. It gives you a good idea of where the sun actually is.

SATURDAY

I took my key chain flashlight and shinned it at about a 45 degree angle into a picture on the wall in my house. The picture is a painting but it has a glass cover on the front of it to protect it. I wanted to represent the specular reflection the best way I could and I can tell by the picture that the flash light is being reflected back as the angle of incidence. It is very clear and and a mirrored imaged.

FRIDAY

This picture is of a reflection of the direct sunlight coming through a window in my house. The blinds of the window its coming through are open and the sun is being reflected from two different surfaces. The first surface is the top shadow of the blinds and its off the hood of my car. The hood is not flat. Its more convex and you can tell by the shadow that it is. It spreads the shadow over more of the wall then the actual blinds are. The other reflection is off the cement driveway. This is a good reflector and it is very flat. The shadow portrayed is the bottom one of the two and you can see its almost an exact replication of the actual blinds.

THURSDAY

I have this really annoying bright puke green light in my room that is on 24/7 due to the fact that I never turn off my computer speakers. The light is not very intense at all but when every light in my room is cut off the brightness of the light becomes more of a problem. The cool thing about this light is that it has an exact reflection of the light in my highly polished wood finished computer table. If I slide a white piece of paper where the reflection is I see nothing. I see no green light illuminated on the paper either. The reflection of the wood finish seems to be close to Specular Reflection. It is almost perfect. I don't have a picture of this because the picture would not come out good.

WEDNESDAY

This is a picture of my living and dinning room area of my townhouse. Light source is the sun shinning indirectly through the patio doors. Also the light in the kitchen is on. The indirect sun light is very bright and you can tell the exact spot where most of the sunlight is becoming most intense of my level of snapping the picture. This sunlight reflection on the floor looks to be very diffuse because it scatters the light everywhere. The thing I want to notice here is 1) My roommate doesn't clean up as well as he says he does and 2) the parts of the floor that are dirty change the reflecting surface of the floor and you can tell that the light source does not like those spots. Depending on what the spill was (probably beer) it will have a different reflecting surface.

TUESDAY

A picture a took of a high mounted flood light about 15 feet behind me. The light is focused towards me. The light is not that strong as you can see. I am actually standing with my hand in the air in order to see my shadow better. The fact I am 15 feet from the light but 15 feet from the ground where the shadow is reflecting because of the angle of the light, The shadow makes me look like a giant that is about 30 feet tall. This picture is to show the illusion of what the angle of a light and distance can do to an object.

MONDAY

My post today is a light that is pointed down towards the ground. Half of its light is being hit by the wall. The wall is very even and not fat at all. It is elevated at different heights every centimeter of the wall. The parts of the wall that are lit up are the parts that are being directly hit by the light. The parts of the wall that are dark and blacked out are the parts that are being blocked from the light source.  This light makes a cool uneven pattern on the wall. The light is obviously more intense and brighter towards the top then the bottom due to the intensity drop.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Last picture of the week. This is my garage this morning with the lights off but the door cracked about 6 inches. The reason I wanted to take this picture is to show everyone how much light can reflect. The light is so bright as it reflects off a light gray cement surface back onto the walls and ceiling. The whole garage is brighter than if I was to turn the lights on. So bright in fact, there is really defined reflections of the golf clubs onto the cement walls. They are stretched out from the angle of the sunlight reflecting back up from the ground. I wanted to take this photo in effort to show everyone how different surfaces reflect different and at different intensities. Cement is a very reflectable surface even when it not painted. The light is very intense even when its all reflected light.

SATURDAY

A fine site to see when you walk downstairs after a rough night perhaps? It's still very dark inside the house yet I know there is sun rays fighting to get into my house. At least that's how I see it. These blinds are amazing. The sun is bright and there is not a cloud in the sky yet again. As the blinds are closed shut to a 100%, the sun light only gets to half way of each blind. With a very dull and spread reflection on the ceiling and in a small contained space as well, The blinds shut off 95% of the light. There is also a little bit of reflection from the ceiling hitting the floor as well. Perhaps just enough to see your way to the kitchen. Lastly there is holes in the blinds. The hole has direct light shinning into the thin sting holding the blinds together. The light over powers the thread and goes right through it completely and diffuses soon after.

FRIDAY

Orlando traffic at its best. There is nothing I hate more than this picture right here. What I notice about this picture is that because of the shadows of the car I can make a accurate assumption that the sun is to my right about 45 degrees up into the sky. Not a cloud in the sky, very direct sunlight. You can also tell that the sunlight hitting the cars bumper in front of me actually changes the color of the car to a brighter maroon than what is actually there. The left brake light you can tell is lit up but the right one is hard to tell if its lit up or if the sun is just matching that same amount of intensity from the sun.

THURSDAY

This photo was taken from my phone on the top level of a barn in Virginia. I was working on a job with my dad out in the country and just had to see where this ladder led to on the bottom floor. As I got to the top of the second floor, this is what I saw. A beautiful strong beam of direct light shinning in to aluminate the immediate wood structures around the door. The light fades off almost completely as it reaches my feet but as the light beam hits the first 5 feet of the opening, it reflects perfectly into my eyes. You can tell because its so bright that you can't make out what surface its reflecting off of. This picture will always remind me of the good times I spent with my dad working everyday. Plumbing is not anyones first pick as a profession as far as "enjoyable" but working with him, made the biggest difference. Just one of the beautiful places we were able to work at everyday.

WEDNESDAY

Todays light source is the sun that is coming through my window. It is not a direct source because it is about 12:16 PM and the sun is directly above us. Even though the sun is above us and the window is on the side of my apartment, I am still getting a lot of light into my room with the lights off. It reflect heavy off the side of my wooden dresser and also my mimi fridge. Because of the material the fridge is made out of, I can see the reflection of whats outside perfectly ( leaves and grass ). Towards the back walls of my room I can tell that the sun is hitting it and lighting up the room slightly. Putting my hand in the air makes a very indirect shadow on the wall. You can barely tell what the actual image is on the wall. It looks like a spread reflection at that distance.

TUESDAY

1/31/12

I have this high powered projector that shoots out a blue replica of what the milky way would look like. It also has another projector attached to it that shoots out hundreds of bright green stars that rotate. The green lights look like lasers of some sort and the blue light makes a view of dark blue clouds that are scrabbling all over. I have this light aimed purposely at my lamp that hangs 3 feet from the ceiling. There is a very strong black shadow from this lamp that replicates the lamp shape exactly. This is due to the very direct light coming off the projectors. Because of the 3 feet difference between the lamp and the ceiling, the shadow of the lamp appears bigger than it actually is. These colors give me a cool feeling and the light is very intense. The angle of the light hitting the lamp also effects the size and placement of the lamps shadow.

MONDAY

1/30/12

I have this surge protector in one of the rooms of my apartment. I turn off all of the lights in the room in order to make this one stand out. Its a bright red and it reflects very softly off the bottom of the wall where it sits next to. The reflection on the wall is not bright at all but it covers over 10 times the size of the light itself. You can also see the red color wrapping around the cord that is plugged into the surge protector. It gives off a warm feeling and reminds me of night time and sleep. It looks to be a diffuse reflection.