Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Parallax

The sun, street light and Parallax

Original - 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."

Reason

A good quality, high resolution image, which greately illustrates an interesting effect

Articles this image appears in

Parallax

Creator

Mbz1 - Edited by Richard Bartz

• Support as nominator Mbz1 (talk) 15:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support Good illustration of effect. Nice shot, but perhaps a bit to artistic for the technical subject. --Mike Spenard (talk) 16:12, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support per above, and you might want to add this image to fog, too. Dr. Extreme (talk) 16:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you for your suggestion, Dr. Extreme. I'm afraid fog article is full of useful images and I see no place to add this one.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

• Well, there was an empty space in the fog gallery at the bottom, so I went ahead and added it. Dr. Extreme Well, never mind. That was hasty and ill-thought out. Dr. Extreme (talk) 14:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support Good encyclopedic illustration with photographic merit. Durova^Charge! 23:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Encyclopaedic and artsy. I still need to go home and think through the full implications of the physics behind that explanation though. (And nice to see you back on FPC Mila). --jjron (talk) 07:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Fantastic that you were able to capture this. howcheng {chat} 00:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support per everyone else. I just love this picture. Purple Is Pretty (talk) 00:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support Excellent photograph of something that untill I looked at the photograph I knew nothing about, it has inspired me to read the Parallax article, which is one of the key things recommended for a picture to become a featured picture. One of the best encyclopedic pictures nominated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trombodave (talk • contribs) 21:07, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support. I was never strong in physics but this one is just great. - Darwinek (talk) 22:48, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support I don't quite understand it, but it is a very interesting shot. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 23:48, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Hmm, does that mean the picture doesn't help you understanding Parallax? --Dschwen 04:02, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:The sun, street light and Parallax edit.jpg MER-C 02:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)