Image:The sun, street light and Parallax.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

[edit] Summary

Description

I've noticed that the reflection of the sun is seen at the reflection of the street light while the sun itself is much higher than the street light is. I've asked Andy Young to explain my image. Here's what he says:
"the answer is Parallax . The reflection in the water shows the view as seen from a point that is the camera's reflection in the water -- i.e., as far below the surface as the camera is above it.
The street light is much closer than the Sun; so parallax mainly affects the position of the light's reflected image.
These perspective effects are *always* present in pictures of reflections in water -- but not often as obvious as in your picture, which is a "textbook example" of the effect."

Source

self-made

Date

2008

Author

Mila Zinkova

Permission
(Reusing this image)

see below

Other versions

Camera location

37°47′05″N, 122°30′02″W

This and other geocoded Commons images: (Info)

[edit] Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation license".

Aragonés | العربية | Asturianu | Български | বাংলা | ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী | Brezhoneg | Bosanski | Català | Cebuano | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Esperanto | Español | Eesti | Euskara | فارسی | Suomi | Français | Gaeilge | Galego | עברית | Hrvatski | Magyar | Bahasa Indonesia | Ido | Íslenska | Italiano | 日本語 | ქართული | ភាសាខ្មែរ | 한국어 | Kurdî / كوردی | Latina | Lëtzebuergesch | Lietuvių | Bahasa Melayu | Nnapulitano | Nederlands | ‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬ | ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ | Occitan | Polski | Português | Română | Русский | Slovenčina | Slovenščina | Shqip | Српски / Srpski | Svenska | తెలుగు | ไทย | Türkçe | Українська | اردو | Tiếng Việt | Volapük | Yorùbá | ‪中文(中国大陆)‬ | ‪中文(台灣)‬ | +/-

Some rights reserved
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license versions 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0

Български | Català | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Euskara | Estremeñu | Français | עברית | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Lietuvių | Nederlands | ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬  | Occitan | Polski | Piemontèis | Português | Русский | 中文 | +/-

You may select the license of your choice.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current01:44, 25 February 20081,525×1,777 (821 KB)Mbz1 ({{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }} )
01:39, 25 February 20082,132×2,484 (1.37 MB)Mbz1 ({{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }} )
14:36, 9 February 20082,132×2,484 (1.62 MB)Mbz1 ({{Information |Description=I've noticed that the reflection of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun sun] is seen at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28physics%29 reflection] of the street light while the sun itself is much higher than the st)
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):