An accident waiting to happen

[mjr]

The cyclist is a bright yellow dot just above the rightmost chimney stack at the junction between the brown-y green-y horizontal patch and the huge green field above.

Times like this, I wonder if I'm being shown the same picture as you. There is a slight lightening of the green in the location you describe, but definitely nothing I'd call "bright yellow":

Anyway, if they're nearly a mile away, they're irrelevant to driving for now and a pointless distraction.

 

[growingvegetables]

There's a big house behind trees almost bang in the middle of the frame. House has two chimney stacks, one at each gable end. The cyclist is a bright yellow dot just above the rightmost chimney stack at the junction between the brown-y green-y horizontal patch and the huge green field above.

Oh s**t - and there was me paying attention!

How's your foot, @User9609?

 

[winjim]

I'm not 100% sure I need to be able to spot a cyclist from a mile away if all I'm doing is standing around in a field admiring some sheep.

 

[recycling]

I've noticed that the police and emergency services round here tend to wear high visibility clothing.

 

[Drago]

Because the scrambled egg think it makes it look like there are more coppers, not because it makes them any safer.

 

[Mugshot]

Sounds to me like he was asking for it dressing like that.

 

[Globalti]

I've noticed that the police and emergency services round here tend to wear high visibility clothing.

What you have seen is the ONLY Policeman on duty around your area. They wear flouro because it fools most of the public into thinking there are lots of them around.

The photo posted above is a great illustration of the ability of the human eye to spot movement. That tiny flouro dot is not clear until you know where to look, in the same way that a tiny dot of an aircraft in the sky is almost impossible to spot unless you are a trained observer. However as soon as it moves it becomes really obvious, whether in flouro or dark clothing. The art of camouflage should more correctly be called the art of keeping absolutely still.

The human nose is similar to the eye in that it is extremely good at spotting differences in odour quality but poor at distinguishing differences in strength.

 

[mjr]

I've noticed that the police and emergency services round here tend to wear high visibility clothing.

I've noted before that Norfolk constabulary still wear black and blue, the fire brigade mustard and the East of England ambulance green. Definitely the police and I think the fire service now have reflective trim, but rarely wear hi vis. I'd like to think that's because they've decided the evidence didn't support it but I suspect it's just some form of the famous conservatism (small c).

 

[Milkfloat]

Times like this, I wonder if I'm being shown the same picture as you.

You are not - your attachment is a different image.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4674538, member: 9609"]this may help
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=o...f0icWMiTDqr38AeCsauICg#q=opticians+in+norfolk[/QUOTE]

 

[mjr]

You are not - your attachment is a different image.

I know it's a different file, but it's a screenshot of how the earlier image is displayed to me. Is it a completely different image? As in, something I should go ask in the support forum about.

[QUOTE 4674538, member: 9609"]this may help
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=o...f0icWMiTDqr38AeCsauICg#q=opticians+in+norfolk[/QUOTE]
My eyesight is corrected as far as it can be - the uncorrectable problem is an abnormally high sensitivity to contrast, which means I fail some eyetests (like the recaptcha ones) but in theory I should be able to see fluorescent material in typical situations more readily than most - which is why I'm surprised not to see the one described above.

 

[winjim]

To be fair, with a good enough camera you can see the moons of Jupiter, so a photograph is not necessarily an accurate representation of what is visible to the naked eye.

@mjr the cyclist is much more visible to me on @User9609 's original image than on your screenshot.

 

[Milkfloat]

I know it's a different file, but it's a screenshot of how the earlier image is displayed to me. Is it a completely different image? As in, something I should go ask in the support forum about.

If it is a screenshot of the original image that you took then something weird is going on with your device. not the forum.

 

[Crackle]

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 4674776, member: 9609"]100 yards ?[/QUOTE]
Much further, taken with a zoom. I was way up on the hillside but as ever, what catches the eye is movement, perhaps after that the speed at which you identify something is influenced by what they wear, to some extent but more, i think, by how they move and where they are.