A couple of times this past week I went for a walk, camera in hand, to document examples of daylight fluorescence in everyday life. In The Day-Glo Brothers, I discuss how the colors created by Bob and Joe Switzer have become part of the landscape, and spending part of a beautiful day zeroing in on the use of those colors was a fun refresher course.
I’ll post more Day-Glo photos here in the weeks ahead. If you’d like to take your own and send them my way, I’d be happy to share them. For now, here’s one more from the same intersection:
That reminds me of some experimental sgns Virginia Tech put up a few year ago.
I think the idea was to try a day-glo color other than yellow and orange so it wold stand out even more. I think it was green. I’d go get you a pic, but they took them down. The experiment my have failed…