Tejon Pass, Tanker Truck & Giovanni Arnolfini

A rather ordinary view of a stainless steel tanker at a gas station 4,166 feet up in the Tejon_Pass, which is the start of a precipitous descent from the Tehachapi range to the Central Valley of California to the northwest. What may be interesting is that (1) the still photo was taken with a small video camcorder with a 3 megapixel imager, (2) the reflected image on the tanker side would suggest a flat desert landscape rather than the surrounding mountains, or even the photographer in a rented SUV, and (3) if you are ever driving on a freeway behind one of these polished steel tankers, the image reflected on the convex, oval-shaped rear panel of the tank can be disorienting, providing a wide-angle and distorted view of your own vehicle, as in a funhouse mirror, or the mirror shown in the back of the famous painting by Jan van Eyck called "The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife". The Arnolfini_Portrait