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Dec 22, 2020 07:57:16   #
Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky
 
Taken a few years ago at a shopping center parking lot. It had been raining and this was the oil slick on the blacktop. IPhone 6


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Dec 22, 2020 08:55:20   #
Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)
 
Fstop12 wrote:
Taken a few years ago at a shopping center parking lot. It had been raining and this was the oil slick on the blacktop. IPhone 6


I remember, at the age of five or six, my dad trying to explain to me that such an oil slick contained nothing that was actually blue, green, yellow, or red! It was years later that the concept of refractive reflectivity with phase reinforcement and interference of different wave lengths began to make sense. And how some of those same effect were responsible for other manifestations of iridescent colors (some bird feathers and “long-play records”).

Thanks,Fstop, for posting! Brought forth some good memories!

Dave

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Dec 22, 2020 09:36:01   #
Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky
 
Uuglypher wrote:
I remember, at the age of five or six, my dad trying to explain to me that such an oil slick contained nothing that was actually blue, green, yellow, or red! It was years later that the concept of refractive reflectivity with phase reinforcement and interference of different wave lengths began to make sense. And how some of those same effect were responsible for other manifestations of iridescent colors (some bird feathers and “long-play records”).

Thanks,Fstop, for posting! Brought forth some good memories!

Dave
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Dec 22, 2020 11:17:01   #
Ourspolair
 
Sweet! Great rendering. Please stay safe over the holidays and keep on sharing.

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Dec 23, 2020 11:19:51   #
Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak
 
Fstop12 wrote:
Taken a few years ago at a shopping center parking lot. It had been raining and this was the oil slick on the blacktop. IPhone 6


Interesting. Sort of reminds me of a view out of the Starship Enterprise, or something.

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Dec 23, 2020 13:27:16   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
I really like the shot and don't care about the physics that causes it. Unlike Uuglypher I can't understand how it works although I understand the results. Probably why I didn't become an engineer--that and calculus.

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Dec 23, 2020 13:40:07   #
Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
I really like the shot and don't care about the physics that causes it. Unlike Uuglypher I can't understand how it works although I understand the results. Probably why I didn't become an engineer--that and calculus.


LOL. Glad you liked it. I was first introduced to this process when we had a Professional Photographer speak at our camera club meeting. I think he also worked for National Geographic at one time. Anyway he was going through his mind blowing images and an abstract image like mine came up on the screen. His, by the way was awesome. He then showed the before image of how he captured it. He was in Costa Rica shooting migrating hummingbirds and came upon a construction site where a backhoe was sitting is a pond of water. He waided out into the water to capture the oil and gas film on the water surface. Not sure I would go that far, all I had to do was get out of my car in a parking lot and look down.

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