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I got tagged by Yuma first and then by Kimberly! XD
16 random things about me .... it's so tough ....
1 - Automatically I bite my tongue or the lower lip when I'm overwhelmed by cuteness of cats. I bite harder when I touch the fluffy animal. Don't know why. I think I do the same when I touch babies. 可愛さに負けて猫を見ると自動的に舌か下唇を噛んじゃうんです。触っちゃうともっと強く噛みます。どうしてかは分からないです。赤ちゃんを見ても同じことしてると思います。ｗ
2 - Apart from cats, my favourite animal is panda. I want to go to China to see them. 猫以外で一番好きな動物はパンダ。中国に行って会ってみたい！
3 - I took a sicky to read the last book of Harry Potter. ハリポタ最終巻を読む為に仮病で仕事を休みました。
4 - #3 reminds me that I used to be an optician. I can examine someone's eyes and make spectacles in about 30 mins...it depends. 3番目つながりで。メガネ屋でした。検眼して物によって30分位でメガネを作れます。
5 - #4 reminds me that I adore people in specks. Jarvis Cocker and Ingrid Michaelson the most. 4番目つながりで。メガネをかけている人が好きです。Jarvis CockerとIngrid Michaelsonが一番。
6 - My favourite film is In The Mood For Love by Wong Kar Wai. But now I cannot stop watching My Blueberry Nights also by the same director. 好きな映画はウォン・カーウァイの花様年華。ただ、今はMy Blueberry Nightsが中心。
7 - I listen to all sorts of music, so I tried to list my favourites but I just cannot do that. 色々な種類の音楽を聴くので、考えたんですが一番好きな人たちを挙げるのはできません。
8 - My favourite book is The Romantic Movement or Essays In Love by Alain de Botton. ( Mark!!! I need to speak to u soon I'm so busy but I'll come round soon!! ) These have been with me everywhere. 一番好きな本はアラン・ド・ボトンの The Romantic Movement か Essays In Love。どこに行くにも一緒。
9 - I cannot drink much. I need 3 or 4 hours to finish a glass of red wine. I sniff beer. A cheap date. お酒に弱いです。3・4時間かけて一杯のワインを飲みます。ビールはクンクン匂いを嗅ぎます。安いデート相手です。
10 - I drink tea. Tea with milk. Far too many. 紅茶ばっかり飲みます。ミルク入りで。有り得ないほど。
11 - My favourite food is Thai red curry. レッドカレーが大好きです。
12 - My least favourite food is unstrained sweet bean paste though I love strained sweet bean paste. 漉し餡は大好きなのに粒餡はだめ。( jamさん、和菓子大好きですからね！)
13 - I cry far too easily and far too often. I cry to sad news on TV and people in love. 有り得ないほどいつもすぐ泣く。悲しいニュースとか恋愛中のカップルを見てとか。昨日はM-1見てNon Styleで泣きました。あぁ、私の涙腺ｗ
14 - I've spent a year volunteering. I met so many wonderful people and made so many mental photos in my mind that I will never ever forget. In the end I found out I was the one being helped. 一年間ボランティアをしました。すごい人達と出会って何枚もの記憶の写真ができました。最後には自分が一番助けられました。
15 - Some of my friends outside Flickr call me by my English name, Katie or KT. フリッカーの外ではKatieかKTという英語名で一部の友達に呼ばれています。
16 - I was born in the year of Dragon for Chinese zodiac, which makes me 32. 辰年生まれです。ということは説明いらないと思うけど、32歳。
く～、難しい！That was tough!!
And I tag Rogvon I can't wait to read your 16s! :D
I'd left a pair of glasses in the background of this shot and how it caught the light had some unexpected (and cool) results!
King Sreet West
Clarence Leslie Knowlton - Occupation:Jeweller & Optician
1985 Died
Terrazzo was first introduced in the United States in the late 1890s, but did not achieve popularity until the 1920s. Until then it was hand polished with a long handled tool called a galera.
RKO_7891.
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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a pink or purple day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Smile on Saturday is nothing in focus.
If you have a blurry vison and nothing is in focus anymore, maybe love is making you blind !!! Please check your love life and maybe you will discover that you are madly in love (which is an awesome news… usually…) !
However, if you see that this picture is blurry, please don’t run to your optician yet. The blur in this picture was made on purpose…I repeat this is an artistic blur !! No need to change your glasses… but if you are madly in love consider buying a ring instead ;-).
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! See you later, I have my first « legit » garden party with my parents !! No curfew, courtesy of our provincial gouvernement !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
Rodenstock Tetron 165mm - lens from projector used by opticians for eye test. This lens is sharp and includes aperture.
I had to go to the optician as my glasses were broken. It was an emergency.
Tuve que ir al optico porque se me rompieron los anteojos. Era una emergencia
I went out today.... went walk about, and whilst putting my camera neck strap over my head.... calamity.... caught my specs/glasses and the left lens fell out....... not totally snookered, but damn awkward... came home very early and went opticians, they kindly repaired them for me, so with time on my hands i played some music, John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne "No more tears" was first up on the play list, after a shuffle... inspiration ! Visited my "I" phone shots catalogue put this together.... in windows.
Across the street from the Hard Day's Night hotel, this opticians has hit upon an extremely good piece of advertising.
King Sreet West
Clarence Leslie Knowlton - Occupation:Jeweller & Optician
1985 Died
Terrazzo Entrance
Terrazzo was first introduced in the United States in the late 1890s, but did not achieve popularity until the 1920s. Until then it was hand polished with a long handled tool called a galera.
Jonathan is on the far left and beau in the water fairly central but Merry possibly behind those people. We hope to go to our local coast today for a few days. Jonathan been advised to go to eye casualty after the optician sought advice from the hospital who think he does need to be checked over but he is going under pressure - my pressure. He has taken our dogs a walk as usual and doesn't really feel the need to go to eye casualty.
The exif doesn't reveal which vintage lens took this but highly likely it was the Pancolar and was taken using a Sony a7rm2..
Also it appears to me to have been processed to accentuate the vintage 'feel'
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend...Sue..x
Comments still off btw….not well enough to comment myself yet.
Quick update for my Flickr friends - about Jonathan’s accident which involved falling flat on his face. Spent over 5 hours in eye casualty yesterday with a covering note on his optician’s findings which pretty much were the same at the hospital. No ocular bleed but one eye still being pulled slightly to one side due to the muscle being affected and in the same eye the Iris not dilating properly so he needs a repeat scan in a few weeks but they were not overly concerned so we are off to the beach today come rain hail or shine :)
Wishing all of you a wonderful weekend….Sue.
Oh yes this was bracketed hand held with my back against the wall so I could also brace my arm on the wall behind me.
St Uny Church Lelant can just be made out on my screen just before the opening to Hayle Estuary and on the left the Towans at Hayle beach :)
Comments still off btw…I am not well enough yet to comment back.
The Music Hall opened to the public on May 10, 1901, just nine days after the opening of the Library. Andrew Carnegie was accompanied by noted educator, astronomer, and optician John A. Brashear at the official dedication of the Free Library and Music Hall on April 22, 1902.
The Carnegie Institute Music Hall The Carnegie Institute Music Hall
The Music Hall, which includes a balcony level, has an 800 seat capacity. The hall still has the original Mahogany seats, which include a wire frame directly under the seat for a gentleman to store his top hat during a performance.
Still a vibrant location for stage shows, the Carnegie Music Hall continues to be one of Pittsburgh's premier settings for intimate musical and cultural performances.
Heading for a brighter future.
By now unoccupied and unloved, the less than salubrious Nelson Subway, constructed in the early 1960s as part of the first Bullring development, never aged particularly well and adopted the downtrodden jaded look of many of the so-called brutalist concrete constructions of that period.
Not long after this shot was taken the subway was closed and demolished to make way for the second Bullring development project in the early 2000s.
The optician advertised, Maxton Saunders, is apparently still doing business on the Stratford Road in Sparkhill.
Ilford HP5
May 2000
I took a photo of this square in December when I went to see an optician and I walked through it again when I returned just after new year to pick up my new glasses. I took this from a different angle as I wanted to catch the last light of the day and that wonderful prop of a bicycle! It's a bit of a different experience in France from the UK when you want to have your eyes tested and buying new glasses. Here you can only have your eyes tested at an ophthalmologist and they give you a prescription which you then take to an optician who sells you the glasses, they don't test your eyes.
Isn't it beautifully lush and green?
My eyes have been playing up a bit recently - I am off to the optician very soon, but I am having trouble with using my computer too much!
Captured lunchtime in my garden before the sun broke out. Another crazy busy day what with an Opticians Appt. Physio assessment amongst other things so catch up when the world slows down
Penone (born in 1947) poses with his iconic self-portrait from 1970. He was 23 when he asked a local optician to create mirroring contact lenses. They are not translucent, so the artist was temporarily blinded when the picture was made.
We should realize that art is a process of inner vision. We make photos of the things we recognize. Onlookers recognize what they recognized before. Mirrors are magical gateways to a deeper understanding.
Do you see the statue of the soldier ?
Appears to be carved from that wooden post but it isn’t.
Today could have gone better tbh…Jonathan felt flat on his face at the end of last week but didn’t tell me and on Saturday asked me to look at his eye which was painful. It had a bright red streak which close up looked like a blood vessel and pressure in the eye is a side effect of his new medication for COPD caused by Covid or the Covid virus. He stopped taking the meds but wouldn’t go to eye casualty re the fall and hitting his eyebrow at the edge of the eye socket as the consultants on strike then. So made the earliest optician appointment which was this afternoon.
After extensive tests then a scan costing £30 ( brilliant new technology ) the Optician said his eye was not turning to the side properly and the pupil not reacting properly to light shining on it, although till that part the optician had been quite optimistic that no damage had occurred
He is phoning the hospital and told us to expect a call from them tomorrow 😏 These pics were to try to act a bit lighter but not reflecting my mood now :(
Jonathan says they might put it down to age or a small bleed on the brain and do an MRI scan.
He doesn’t appear worried but I am….😟
In Explore ⭐️
Rochdale Exchange shopping centre
Me and my wife went for our eyes testing. We go every two years.
Fortunately neither of us needed a new prescription!
I was sat waiting for my turn, whilst my wife was with the optician.
I don’t know anyone in this photo, I hope they don’t mind.
Rochdale
Greater Manchester
My psyche prefers a set of three connected /3 similar photographs in a sequence whenever possible but just one a day to be fair to anyone liking something to comment on. So here is bird number 3 taken in roughly the same area as the previous two. I am afraid I shall be slow to leave comments because I am home after 4 hours extensive testing of my eyes at the Neuro -Ophthalmic surgery at my local hospital.
Still no closer to finding out the cause of my problem despite scans, pressure testing, examinations of both eyes x 2
All of this today....
Only to be referred to the Glaucoma clinic... this after the first test was for Glaucoma and where I was told I didn't have signs of Glaucoma. I googled my symptoms on reaching home, which at the beginning of this eye problem starting over a year ago suggested to me 'night blindness ' my Optician then an Ophthalmologist both said I don't have this condition but my symptoms are exactly that...I had been looking at American sites because the NHS in the UK don't appear to recognise it as an actual real 'thing' if anyone I follow suffers from this I would be interested in what treatment is available.. the suggestion the consultant thought possible being removal of the tiny early cataracts and drops for Glaucoma ?????
since my son owns an optics shop, I see many sunglasses that stand out.
STANDS OUT is the topic for Sunday July 2nd, 2017, group our daily challenge
Seen in the display window of a local optician.
It reminded me of a song from my youth (and a song that I still listen to) - Blockheads.
Looking Close on Friday - Nothing in focus (black and white)
This is a succulent on my kitchen windowsill. You may just be able to make out a wire heart that is stuck in the pot...or maybe not!
#75 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Lensbaby Twist 60
My long site has improved, and I only need reading glasses now, says my optician after a Test recently. I had already noticed the improvement.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot captured in April 2019. So if, like me, you had been putting off going to the opticians because of the coronavirus pandemic I can say confidently that there is no need. My appointment today with a popular and well advertised high street brand of opticians was an exercise in perfect Covid-19 hygiene practices. Oh, and hopefully the new glasses will help with the eye-strain headaches that I have had for a couple of months now. Yes I know that a photographer really needs to take better care of their eyes but... COVID! Anyway, new prescription ordered with more change in one eye and the other, hence the headaches!
I guess this turned into a kind of Photograph Blog post, I'd like to call that a Phlog but I see that word already means something else. Hmmmm.
Stay safe everyone!
Taken at Lyme Park.
I have a few tree images which I will be posting but for some reason I chopped the tops off them when shooting them. Guess I should have gone to Spec Savers (well known opticians in the UK).
Also just noticed I used an unsuitable aperture setting. I was wondering why the background wasn't sharp - now I know why. Is there such a place as Brain Savers? x
Sometimes, when I'm bored, like while waiting for Wife to get her new glasses, I roam around and shoot stuff.
You may from time to time have seen reference to the “Three Happy Snappers” in my stories. That’s me, Dave and Lee. You don't need to know anything about me that I haven't already mentioned, so let me give you a brief introduction to the other two happy snappers. Dave is a web guru (whatever that is) and a fine art graduate. He, his wife and the youngest of their three adult sons are rarely seen in public, preferring to hide in their homely forest cottage that would have the Brothers Grimm reaching for their quills in imagination fuelled fury. Outside his day job, Dave looks after the website of a famous person, but I can’t tell you who it is of course. Client privileges and all that. He’s also my younger brother, which means I’ve known him for approximately five and a half decades. I was confined to my bed with German Measles the day he was being born at home in the next room, and when consulted by village elders on what I thought about my new baby brother, I apparently replied that he was ok, but on balance I’d rather have a new Thomas the Tank Engine train set. Choo choo!
Lee joined our world twelve or thirteen years ago, when he was invited to come and play football one Friday evening and was immediately accepted into the group on a long term basis. He used to sell glasses from a shop in Falmouth, made by the family business in his native West Midlands. Nowadays he works for a local electrician in the village where he lives, running the shop, keeping the appointments book up to date, and advising me on camera gear. His daily commute takes approximately one minute in either direction - on foot. Just occasionally, we lure him away from the village, but he does seem to be growing roots in the few years since he and his wife moved there from Falmouth. Before he came to Cornwall, he also had a famous client. He's not taking on new customers these days, but for us chosen few, he can still rustle up a new pair of varifocals at a price that tells me I shouldn't have gone to a certain optician on the High Street. I’ve never had a famous client by the way - or even any clients at all for that matter. I once bumped into Little Mo from Eastenders at Gatwick Airport. Does that count?
From time to time, the Three Happy Snappers convene at one location or another to take photographs at sunset, have a bit of a catch up with each others’ lives, discuss the football and enjoy a slow pint of hop based infusion before heading for home. And to my amazement we were going out for the second occasion in under a month. This time we’d agreed upon Land’s End in early August. The heather should be looking good around then. It was great at the same time last year. We'd grab some food on the way down, and then spend the second half of the afternoon among the heather. With any luck we’d get some nice light towards the end of day.
But what’s this - a fourth happy snapper gatecrashing the party? Well I remembered a message I’d had from one of you. Step forward artisan cheese maker Lloyd, who was making an extra visit to Cornwall this year. You know Lloyd - king of the super long exposure. I don't know if he has any famous clients, so you'll have to ask him I'm afraid. He usually arrives in quiet November, armed with a camera bag and good intentions, so being told that he was coming here in the middle of summer was a bit of a surprise. It so happened that his brief holiday coincided with our outing to Land’s End, and he was staying at nearby Cape Cornwall too. And yes he’d be delighted to meet us at Land’s End and update the locals on exactly how much it costs to park there if you don’t have a postcode that begins with “TR” or “PL.” It was the fourth time I'd met him here over the last three years. A spleen venting nine pounds and fifty pence this time. Ouch! I get to park here for free.
Half an hour later, after wrestling our way through the hordes, we were sitting in the hotel grounds, supping four frighteningly expensive pints and planning our sunset shoot. Ever the tech tart, Lee was demonstrating the remote shutter contraption he'd recently acquired to operate his phone camera from six paces away as the four of us gurned inanely at the birdie, waiting for the Google Pixel that he'd perched perilously close to the edge of the bench to topple onto the concrete below. Somehow it survived the drop. It might have been the best picture of the day.
What didn't appear to have survived this far into August was the heather. This time last year it was here in abundance, but today much of the growth was already distinctly brown and patchy. Plan A was looking a little bit shaky, so it's a good job that there are plenty of other things to take pictures of at Land's End. Although somehow, the small patch of heather that I did find in the right place made it into the image. It was easier than this last year. Strange when it’s been so colourful elsewhere around here recently.
It's always great fun when the three happy snappers get together. Even more so when an honorary fourth joins the party. Although we did ask him to bring some cheese next time. Who doesn't love cheese?
I am thinking of working on a series of self portraits inspired by RL events and this is the first piece.
I am helpless without my glasses and have rather severe myopia. But I am a photographer in RL and I am forever working at computer for long hours editing my pictures. My mom always tell me that at this rate I am going to go blind.
Once I asked an optician if I would eventually go blind and he told me that I run the risk of suffering from retinal detachment. When he said that I could almost feel my retina peeling off and collapsing helplessly into a heap of mess.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. A simple juxtaposition that I simply couldn't resist - enjoy!
Collected my new specs aka glasses from the optician today. They came with a case in blue, my least favourite colour so I asked if there was another option.
And the lady optician produced this beautiful pink case plus a cleaning cloth in 4 different colours of which can be seen just the pink and the green sections.
for Crazy Tuesday
En 1776, Thomas Short retourne à Édimbourg, apportant avec lui un télescope réfléchissant de 12 pieds (3,7 m, distance focale) fabriqué par son défunt frère James Short avec l’intention d’ouvrir un observatoire public sur Calton Hill en tant qu’entreprise commerciale. Grâce à une collecte de fonds en 1736 de Colin Maclaurin (professeur de mathématiques à l’Université d’Édimbourg) pour créer un observatoire universitaire et un terrain sur Calton Hill fourni par la ville d’Édimbourg, la construction de l’observatoire de Short sera réalisée à la condition d’en donner l’accès aux étudiants universitaires. James Craig a conçu l’observatoire qui, sous l’influence de Robert Adam, devait ressembler à une fortification avec un mur et des tours gothiques à ses angles. La ville contrôlait le projet de construction, mais l’argent s’est épuisé après la construction de la première des tours. Short s’y installa et dirigea l’observatoire jusqu’à sa mort en 1788. Après la mort de Short, l’observatoire a été maintenu par sa famille quelques temps, puis loué à des opticiens et finalement abandonné vers 1807. Le site est revenu à la ville. En 1827, la fille de Short, Maria Theresa Short, retourna à Édimbourg. Elle dirigera un deuxième observatoire – populaire et commercial plutôt que scientifique – ailleurs sur Calton Hill. En 1850, elle déménage à Castle Hill où son entreprise deviendra finalement l’actuelle Camera Obscura sur le Royal Mile.
Le bâtiment de Craig est tombé en ruine et figurait sur le registre « Buildings at Risk » d’Historic Scotland en 2002 avant d’être rénové entre 2007 et 2010. Il a été géré comme logement de vacances jusqu’en 2015, date à laquelle la société qui le louait à la ville d’Édimbourg, Vivat Trust, a fait faillite. Actuellement c’est Collective, qui gère les autres bâtiments patrimoniaux à l’intérieur des quatre murs du site de l’Observatoire, qui gère l’Ancienne Maison de l’Observatoire jusqu’en 2044, pour l’hébergement privé (logement de vacances) et les réceptions (mariages par exemple).
In 1776 Thomas Short returned to Edinburgh, bringing with him a 12-foot (3.7 m, focal length) reflecting telescope made by his late brother James Short with the intention of opening a public observatory on Calton Hill as a 'commercial enterprise. Thanks to a fundraising in 1736 from Colin Maclaurin (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh) to create a University Observatory and land on Calton Hill provided by the City of Edinburgh, the construction of Short's Observatory will be carried out on condition that access is given to university students. James Craig designed the observatory which, under the influence of Robert Adam, was to resemble a fortification with a Gothic wall and towers at its corners. The city controlled the building project, but the money ran out after the first of the towers was built. Short moved there and ran the observatory until his death in 1788. After Short's death, the observatory was maintained by his family for some time, then leased to opticians and finally abandoned around 1807. The site is returned to town. In 1827 Short's daughter, Maria Theresa Short, returned to Edinburgh. She will run a second observatory – popular and commercial rather than scientific – elsewhere on Calton Hill. In 1850 she moved to Castle Hill where her business would eventually become the present Camera Obscura on the Royal Mile.
Craig's building fell into disrepair and was on Historic Scotland's 'Buildings at Risk' register in 2002 before undergoing refurbishment between 2007 and 2010. It was run as holiday accommodation until 2015 when the company that rented it to the city of Edinburgh, Vivat Trust, went bankrupt. Currently it is Collective, which manages the other heritage buildings within the four walls of the Observatory site, which manages the Old House of the Observatory until 2044, for private accommodation (holiday accommodation ) and receptions (weddings for example).