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Macro Mondays - Eyewear
Image measures 1 3/4" on the long side.
I got these glasses in the 90's. I loved them so much but then my prescription changed and I needed bifocals. The lenses were too small to allow for that so I've kept them in my drawer hoping someday I could use them again, lol. I guess using them as a photo prop is the best I can do for now! I just looked online to find the brand, Yabi-Spirit made in Germany. I've put a shot of the entire frame in the first comment. : )
Happy Macro Monday!
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"Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams."
~ Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Lederer)
... so this beloved metal spectacle frame finally had to make way for larger varifocal glasses two years ago : ))
Macro Mondays - theme: Eyewear
taken with the manual Laowa 60mm ultra macro lens; width of this image: about 3.5 cm
I am very busy today; so I hope that I will be able to catch up tonight.
Happy Macro Monday (evening) : ))
My glasses.....their reflection was bright & shiny hanging on the bed that AM. I love my glasses, I certainly wouldn't see well without them.
Watching marathon CSI:Miami on A&E all day.
Explanation on the glasses: I wear trifocals daily. The top part is for distance. The middle part is clear because I can see fine all around me. The bottom portion is the "bifocal" or magnifying part since I need them for reading (I'm over 40 years old). When I use the trifocals at a computer, I must lift up my head to read. I TALKED my eye doctor into making me a LARGE pair of BIFOCALS with nothing but the magnifying portion in the glasses. I use them at my computer at home and to read music to play my keyboard.
The back and the front of a U.S. $100 Bill showing Independence Hall and backlit to show Benjamin Franklin's face and other details reversed from the front.
Blame it on Crazy Tuesday!
One of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, Franklin was a Founding Father and an inventor. His credits include the lightning rod, bifocals, the Glass Armonica, swim fins, the Franklin Stove, and others. He did not patent any of these and stated, ""That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
Franklin is only one of two non-Presidents on U.S. currency, the other being Alexander Hamilton.
Independence Hall in Philadelphia is where the Declaration was signed and the U.S. Constitution 11 years later.
The time on the clock is 10:30am. If it was PM, it would be dark! It was changed in 2013 from 4:10pm. No one knows the significance of either time! It's a timeless mystery!
Macro taken with 16-300mm Tamron lens @ 300mm and 20mm and 36mm Neweer extension tubes.
For Crazy Tuesday
Theme: Currency
~Story people~
Just blah ... Playing catching up today!
Wish you guys a wonderful day! :)
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Explored ... #145 & FP! :)
No it's not a flying monkeh! It's a Winged Genna perching in a tree. Those are much more rare to find. I'm just glad she stayed there long enough for me to capture this moment of discovery. :p A little bit of Technicolor added for full Oz effects.
Hair: Frangipani
Skin: Celestial Studios
Outfit: Civvies
Belt: Kyoot
Leg Warmers: BettyPage
Tattoos: Canimal
Bruises and Cuts: Kyoot
Choker: Refuge
Wings and bifocals: Disembodied Hand
I love night photography. It can be challenging at times. I find getting the focus can be a big deal. I wear bifocals and manual focusing is hard at night.
Patience is the key word.
Well I am still trying to get the settings right on the XTi .... her face is soft her hair is very clear. My bifocals drive me lupey looking through the view finder. Any suggestions?
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I can hardly believe it myself, but today is my 60th birthday. Here I am with two of my grand-nieces at the Fushimi-Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan earlier this year. Of course, as one of my flickr friends put it, the mountains get taller every year, and I verified that on a backpacking trip in August, the beard turned gray years ago and the hair is gradually following suit, the glasses are variable bifocals, and the vertical leap for basketball is gone, but still I always feel like I'm one of the luckiest people around with a wonderful family and some great friends, including my flickr friends. Thank you all for adding so much to my life.
Among his many accomplishments, Ben Franklin invented bifocals.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge : βInventionsβ . Explore #472 on 4/24/2013. Thanks to everyone for the views and faves!
"Our Daily Topic" :"Clarity".
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: EYEWEAR
SUBJECT: MY LATE MOM'S BIFOCALS
Wishing you all a HAPPY, PEACEFUL, and a BLESSED First Week of September (already? September?)
Thank you all so much for stopping by and for the kind comments and favs. They are very much appreciated!
A Great Horned Owlet appears to be wearing bifocals. Its nictitating membrane is a third eyelid allowing vision while protecting the bird's eyes. (seen in mid-town Tucson)
Well first off let me say that Santa brought me a late Christmas present ... indirectly. My eldest daughter who is into photography like me gave me a LED light ring for taking macro captures. She thought it would be cool to use. The issue was that I really did not have a macro lens, and also all my lenses have 77mm filter rings ... and the light kit only had adapters up to 67mm.
She was disappointed when I told her this, and was going to return it and see if she could get a LED light kit for larger lenses ... I told her NOT to, and that this was FINALLY my sign to go ahead and get the Macro lens. I had been toying with getting the 100mm 2.8 by Canon for well over a year now figuring it would be great for portraits and also taking true macros.
Mrs. Krach was fine with me taking the plunge with the new lens, and I ordered it Christmas night. Amazingly without even express shipping, the lens arrived today already (guess the delivery trucks are empty ;)
So yeah, after working all day at the office, quite the fun to come home and start testing it out.
This capture here was taken on the full frame camera hand held pretty much at the 1:1 magnification of one of the lights on our Christmas tree. Certainly cannot even see this detail when staring at the light (with my bifocals), but was really amazed when viewing the capture there of the small solar system there inside the end of the Christmas Light.
Will now be trying out the lens and taking the same capture with the Canon 7D Mark II, which should get us even closer in magnification. Maybe it will reveal some small moons around those planets :)
Who needs Hubble anyways ...
Also will be harassing the dogs taking some portraits in the low light ... they will be thrilled no doubt.
BTW ... by having the 100mm around for portraits, my daughter will be happy now as my 5 year old Sigma 70/200 2.8 that I was using as my portrait lens, she will be able to now 'borrow'. Hence I think this was her whole idea all along by getting me the LED filter ring light.
As I was looking for something with some bokeh in my archives, I came across this. I don't remember what this drop was hanging from. Blurred vision sometimes helps us make it through the tough times or it means we need bifocals. Not sure which!! :). Happy Bokeh Wednesday!!
Explored 2/11/09 #467 Thank you!
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I need three pairs of glasses these days. Computer glasses, reading glasses, and progressives for everything else.
Happy Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day (what a weird name)
Another Grandchild who is always willing to smile for me.With my new 85mm I am having some issues with manually focusing while wearing my bifocals. I have been working with the Diopter on the camera, but am missing the mark sometimes.
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. β Ann Landers
This scene just felt fanciful to me. It is late, and perhaps I have my rose-colored glasses in, instead of my progressive lens!
This image Is for Macro Monday's theme "Seeing Double". I tried to capture what it is like for me to look through my new bifocals. The world is either in focus or out of focus depending on where my eyes stray. "Seeing double" conjured the image of confused vision for me. I experience confused vision when I wear my bifocals because my eyes are not used to them.
I was glad to find the passage from John O'Donohue's book "Beauty", because there are times when I view a flower through a pair of glasses, I am stunned at the clarity in which I used to see the world. Thus, this image speaks to the two types of sight one experiences in their journey through life.