Heath Carmody | InFerryOr Mirage - Sans Ferry @heathcarmody2867 | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Yet another video from observation #11 at Shelter Bay ferry - far side "weekend beach". The ferry, that I normally capture travelling to the far dock and back, was docked and being serviced or repaired for the entire 6 hours I was there.
I set up my camera looking across about 5 km to the far shore, from a height of about 7-8 inches. This is a continuous time lapse from mid morning to mid afternoon. The camera moved around a few times when I had to reposition the shade umbrella, but the height remained the same throughout.
Very hot day but still typical for the few weeks preceding it. Mornings are generally the best time to capture any sort of convex-ish illusions as a result of upward refraction, in my opinion. The expected strong inferior mirage eventually disappears, revealing near perfect flat geometry for a brief moment, before the concave compression sets in for the rest of the observation. Extreme 'heat distortion' accompanies the 'tiny concave' view. This was one of my better transitions, but still hard to compare and analyze, especially without the ferry in view. For that reason, this video makes no claims and contains no subtitles and no sarcastic globe evidence. Just lightly edited observation footage sped up and 'synced' to loud electronic music.
Yet another video from observation #11 at Shelter Bay ferry - far side "weekend beach". The ferry, that I normally capture travelling to the far dock and back, was docked and being serviced or repaired for the entire 6 hours I was there.
I set up my camera looking across about 5 km to the far shore, from a height of about 7-8 inches. This is a continuous time lapse from mid morning to mid afternoon. The camera moved around a few times when I had to reposition the shade umbrella, but the height remained the same throughout.
Very hot day but still typical for the few weeks preceding it. Mornings are generally the best time to capture any sort of convex-ish illusions as a result of upward refraction, in my opinion. The expected strong inferior mirage eventually disappears, revealing near perfect flat geometry for a brief moment, before the concave compression sets in for the rest of the observation. Extreme 'heat distortion' accompanies the 'tiny concave' view. This was one of my better transitions, but still hard to compare and analyze, especially without the ferry in view. For that reason, this video makes no claims and contains no subtitles and no sarcastic globe evidence. Just lightly edited observation footage sped up and 'synced' to loud electronic music.