Science and Photography Challenge: Light Reflection on a Curved Surface

This contest is a science/photography contest and can be done in either a photography type method, or a science fair type method. This contest is being done in the name of science, but you do not need to be a scientist or perform any scientific experiments or data in order to participate. Anyone with a camera and a little creativity will be both contributing to the cause of science, and getting a chance to win.

What is the Contest About?

While everyone is familiar with crowdsourcing for money, the internet also allows us to crowdsource information. And we are crowdsourcing the testing of and attempt to falsify the hypothesis that light can only reflect in a straight line to the viewer on a flat surface.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to photograph a light source shining across a curved (concave or convex) surface to emulate, as much as possible, the reflection of the sun setting on the ocean with a light source in the distance, and the reflection of the light source in as straight a line as possible directly towards the viewer, as seen in the image below.

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Image Credit: Pixabay

I have an image below as an example. Some ideas to accomplish this are:

1. A curved bridge at night with a light over it. A wet bridge is best
2. A child's slide with someone holding a light source at the top. Either an old style metal slide or a wet slide would be best
3. A curved shiny surfaced building or structure, such as the St. Louis Arch
4. Build a curved model, cover it with tinfoil, place the light at the top of the curve, and shoot the image.
5. Anything else your heart desires
6. You could even find an image online that is an excellent example, so long as the image is in the public domain or you have permission or rights to use it. Just attribute the image appropriately.

Image credit: my own. Beautiful evening in Inverness, Scotland

The object you photograph can be in nature, like the sun shining on the St. Louis Arch, or it can be artificially prepared. It can be as small as a something you caught in a microscope, or as large as a mountainside.

The Prizes

At least 3 prizes will be awarded, chosen by me based on creativity, beauty, degree of curvature, the wow factor, and the close emulation of the image above of a sunset on water. I may add more prizes if the post reward is high. The rewards will be as follows and be awarded in SBD:

First place: 30 SBD
Second place: 15 SBD
Third place: 10 SBD

I will personally upvote each entry, so long as it meets the requirements, so everyone who qualifies and puts in a reasonable effort to emulate the image will win something.

The rules:

1. Upvote this post
2. Follow me
3. Do your own post and put the link to the post in a reply to THIS post
4. Include the phrase, "Light Reflection on Curved Surface" in the post title
5. Two of your tags should be: flatearth and reflection-challenge
6. You can do either a video or images, or both.
7. In either case, please include in your post 2 still shots: one of the image, and one that includes clear proof of curvature (concave or convex) by methods to be determined best by you, but could include a side shot of the object, or an image of a level sitting on the object
8. Attribute your images appropriately, even if they are yours
9. One entry per person
10. Entry will be accepted no later than October 10th at midnight EST
11. Your entry will be permission for me to use your images in any subsequent compilation posts. Attribution will be made to your original post.
12. Have fun and be creative

BONUS #1: If you do a science-type writeup explaining the science of light, and why light can reflect in a straight line off of a curved surface, I will also resteem your post.

Bonus #2: Earn a change to win 1 SBD by entering your photo into @Juliank 's Ongoing Photo Contest

I will attempt to announce the winners on or around October 15th, but will reserve the right to have a week's leeway if needed.

Good luck. I look forward to seeing your entries.