I learned this term the hard way last week while trying to edit a video on my laptop outside. I thought I’d found the perfect spot under a maple tree. For ten glorious minutes, it was peaceful. Then the sun shifted.
There is a specific moment I dread as a photographer and a remote worker. It hits around 2:00 PM in the summer.
Suddenly, my $1,500 monitor looked like a cheap, cracked mirror from a 1980s arcade. The glare was so intense I could see my own confused eyebrows floating over the timeline of my project. That was it. That was the glariest reflection I have ever encountered.
To understand "glariest," we must first look at its root: . Something is "glary" if it is characterized by a "glare." This can manifest in two primary ways:
