This is a puzzle piece. I'm not going to tell you anything about it except that it attracted my attention from 50 feet away and I went to see what it was.
Any guesses?
--Rik
Last edited by rjlittlefield on Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:12 am, edited 1 time in total.
It sure looks VERY hard to illuminate without getting buried by specular reflections!
No real clue as to what it is, though. I've always found macro ID puzzles to be enjoyable. I recall showing macro photos of everyday things to my then young children and they really enjoyed trying to ID the scene or object. Even something as simple as a few mm or cm of dirt would throw almost anyone.
That's even closer, but perhaps you're being misled by my subtle hint about the size.
What you're looking at here is a 42% crop from an MP-E 65 at 5X on a Canon T1i camera. The total frame width shown here is only 1.85 mm, and the average width of the structure is less than 0.5 mm.
Perfectly simple. Rik can't see 2mm from 50 feet. If it's icy, all manner of things glint from that distance with the sun on/behind them.
So this was attached to a larger object, of which the strand is a small part.
The strand looks pale, and is bifurcated perhaps. Obviously a hair from a blonde head, so likely a girl.
A hairbrush wouldn't "do it" from 50 feet. So Rik found a girl who doesn't look after her split ends, who'd spent all night outside for this to happen to it.
Perfectly natural that his first thought would be to take a photograph. I understand, I'm about the same age.
I can remember parties where all that would have been normal.