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The image in Q2675 was mirrored for publication.
I've been thinking about "timing" and about "direction" and came upon the following:
Using the info about the navigation lights, and concluding that the published image is a mirror of the original, can we deduce the direction of flight that was captured? The timing, also?
Note the sun on the horizon in the published image. It appears on would be the port or left side of the pilots. If mirrored, that would actually be their starboard or right side.
1) Airforce Times caption: Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft fly over northern Iraq.
2) The Atlantic caption: A pair of U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles fly over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria on September 23, 2014.
The latter caption says it was a return trip from Syria to Iraq. Both say the jets were over northern Iraq.
Was the image of a return trip? If flying northward from Syria, then, the jets flew northeast generally. Where would the sun appear?
If the mission was concluded in the twilight of dawn, then, the sun would be seen rising in the east. That would be the right side of the pilots.
But if the mission was concluded before sunset, then, the sun would be seen setting in the west. The sun during dusk would appear on the left side of the pilots.
Think Mirror. Graphic editors will flip images to suite the design elements of a page or spread. On the most basic level, the mirrored image may signify nothing more than that. Most readers would be unaware of such a flip.
However, if there is additional meaning,would it not be in the context of Dark to Light? That is, traveling during the twilight of dawn. The original image would match that meaning – sun rising in the east.
The mirrored image might fit the linear thinking of a typical reader, such as myself, who would see the jets heading across the page, left to right, and think east to west, Syria to Iraq. And not notice the navigation lights. Something akin to confirmation bias.
Q has advised us to question everything. So we are no longer among "most readers", right?
Upon reflection (pun intended), or as Q has advised, Think Direction (Q 128), the sun in the mirrored published image appears to be on the pilot's left side, or port side, and that would mean the jets flew north during the twilight of the setting sun in the west. That would mean Light to Dark.
Now, on night shift an Anon noticed the details of the navigation lights and has corrected the typical viewer's first or even subliminal impression. We see the mirrored image. The photographer happened to be on the port side of the jets so the rising sun was in the background on the eastern horizon. Dark to Light.
Yet there is a double meaning. Dark to Light, yes, but given the mirrored image, also heading into battle rather than returning home.
The pic may help in re-visualizing direction, timing, and meaning. However, it may not help with the headache that may come on as you go through the twists and turns of changing what you have already seen and may not have questioned. Kek.
Allspeed Anons.