Feb 162014
The roadside ditches along Piney Woods Church Road are drying up. Until the next rainfall, there won’t be much possibility of reflection photography after today, so I availed myself of the opportunity by taking dozens of images. The “first place” winner, in my wife’s keen judgment, is this monochromatic image of grasses and a leaf. I read somewhere that there are no straight lines in nature; that certainly does not hold for this photograph, where the grasses parallel each other or cross at near-perpendicular. Looking at this picture, I am reminded of what I know of angles, from geometry and physics. Vertical angles are equal. The angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
