fluorescence

sucking light from dark UV

but how does the suction work exactly?

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s_p_a_c_e_m_a_n says:

Those colours are unbelieveable. I could eat them (is that a mild display of synesthesea?). They're like digital ice-cream wafers.

@(-<
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Crashworks says:

Now you are making me suspect that you are secretly a physics professor in a double life!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thank you s p a c e m a n. I always liked the idea of 'rice paper' as a kid - paper that you could eat. If they could combine that with edible printer inks...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr Crash...
1. No.
1b. but it would be great to have all that knowledge!
1c. Even without this, the journeying is great.
1½. Even journeying in the wrong direction.
2. I am more of a self-apointed lab technician in the Folksiversity of Flickr
3. I have been very lucky to have so many 'visiting lecturers' pass by my pictures with their thoughts, explanations, experiences (I like those particularly), confusions.
π. Example
4. Thank you.
4⅔. (I take it as a compliment.)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Reciprocity says:

Great shot, wonderful colours and composition.
How does the suction work - my lips are sealed. ;-))
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Crashworks says:

Well if you asked a physicist about your sucking question he would start waving his arms around and talking about "absorption" and "reemission" and "quanta" and hurling math in every direction. Since I am not a physicist I try to understand the answer in a slightly more poetic way (though one that requires us to pretend for a moment that light is a wave).

It is like taking a tuning fork, ringing it, and holding it near a brass choir bell. If the bell is tuned the same as the fork, you might find that the bell begins to resonate also in the same key. But sometimes depending on how it is tuned and what it is made of, the bell might sing along with the tuning fork, but on a different note. And sometimes of course the bell does nothing at all.

If the bell does resonate, it must always do so either more quietly or more lowly than the fork, because it cannot put out more energy than it takes in. And so to get a nice middle C from the bell you must either ring a fork of just the same note -- or one of a much higher note.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

I love poetic explanations like that! (I still remember my mum's explanation of electricity to me as a child as being like lots of children running along the wires to get ice creams, being prepared to do a bit of work on the way.) So the glow is a kind of harmonic of the dark light...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Poekie says:

... you just keep asking the questions, and I'll keep coming back to read the answers and checkout the great pics.....
I like this photostream :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thank you Poekie!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

kwik_e_mart says:

Great shot! Favourited.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

ildarabbit says:

what a great idea!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thank you kwik_e_mart and ildarabbit!
(thanks all for faves)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

jazzgrlj says:

Fantastic.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Anastacia Campbell says:

What a great, creative idea! I love this.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thanks, jazzgrlj, and thanks Jurgen Nation!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

telebeco says:

Hello - really the same... I checked a bit of your images and loved them.

Stay in touch - Cheers!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

AdeleS [deleted] says:

Back to you ;))

Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

We straws need to stick together... they will try to pick us off one by one...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

for the love of photography says:

STRAWS!! I love straws! great colors too!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

well, look up the tag "straws" - there are some great ones out there (mine have been dropping by on friends) - one of my favourites is this one in blue and green.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Christiaan L says:

Cool colour!

--
Seen in some comments. (?)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Hi there honeys! Thanks for calling by!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Me, I guess says:

Love the colours!!!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thanks, Me. I guess.

I've been looking at this picture:

by Lady Vervaine.
It has a really interesting discussion on the invisibility of day-glo, and also a couple of links to some very intersting articles, one of which is:

www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1389496,0 0.html

where we read:
"The story begins one day in the early 1930s when an Ohio teenager called Bob Switzer was unloading crates for Safeway in a railway yard in California. He tripped and hit his head so hard that he fell into a coma for months. When he finally regained consciousness, the doctor told him he should stay in a dark room until he recovered. And so, to pass the time, Bob took to waving fluorescent minerals around in the air. Then, when he got better, he started mixing them with wood varnish in the family bathtub. Before long he had invented the world's first fluorescent paint. He called it Day-Glo."
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Residual Effects [deleted] says:

Heyyyyyy nice photo hehehe....I like this and I like the angle you shot it from! Nice job!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

mecotterill [deleted] says:

Looks like some undersea creature
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

optick says:

Thanks for passing by Residual Effects and mecotterill!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave G Kelly says:

Very cool variation. It does look as if there is a lot of this about.

Maybe we should set up a group for these suckers!

Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave G Kelly says:

I've just set up a group for this sort of thing:

www.flickr.com/groups/straws/

Your straws photo(s) would be more than welcome.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

sadalit says:

Came here from the discussion thread on the above photo in seenability . Fantastic work!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

klevo! says:

eyecatching colors
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Lynn (Gracie's mom) - I'm here & there says:

I SAW YOU FIRST!
Please add this inspiring photo to
www.flickr.com/groups/isawyoufirst/ (invited images only)
Please tag your image "isawyoufirst"
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

Guido Jan says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Interactive colours, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

KM＊1212 says:

!!!!
beautiful!!
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

valentina-s says:

10 10 10
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

lookieloo62 says:

Oh yeah! This is what we mean by color and pattern. Great!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

daylapt says:

I saw your photo on someone else's page where you left a comment. I just wanted to see it close up. What an awesome shot !!!!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

bigwhitefish says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Color of ideas, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Caneles says:

It looks like pink fetuccini :-)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

SnapShotStrawn says:

Pretty!!!!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

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