Twins plus friend

[misterx]

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[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

hmmm both nice
I like one best I think, not that the butterfly isn't great I just prefer the mirrored muted blossoms

[alby.livejournal.com]

These are really nice pictures!

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[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

I like the butterfly one; Nature's living jewel on that lovely pink is stunning.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

Erm, prefer the butterfly one. The first one is nice imagery, but since I grew up half-blind (I didn't know trees had leaves and buildings had bricks till I got my first pair of glasses in 4th grade. The teacher stopped writing things so faintly on the blackboard then, too), out of focus pictures, even deliberately done for a particular effect, kind of makes my brain twitch.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

When some is in focus, and other parts are not, it's called depth of field.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

OK, I didn't have the term for it, but I understand the concept. I was simply explaining why I, personally, as a formerly nearsighted person, don't care for that style -- which I now know to call depth of field.

When I look out at the mountains (I had LASIK back when I had a profitable job) miles away from me, they are as sharp to my eye as the house across the street. Since the depth of field technique blurs part of the picture, I don't enjoy it because I spent too much of my life seeing things that way.

It's an excellent piece; I can tell that it is well composed and a lovely concept. It just makes my personal brain twitch, or itch, or something, because without glasses or contacts, that's the way the world looked to me until I was in my 40s.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine what that must have been like, to suddenly see with clarity after having poor eyesight for so long. It must have been amazing.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

I was quite nearsighted before I got my glasses, so I would have seen almost exactly like your depth of field photo. If it was within 18 inches (roughly) of my face, I could see it. My sheer delight in being able to see the bricks on buildings and the leaves on trees as we drove by them instead of seeing uniformly colored walls and fuzzy blobs on trees is still one of my strongest memories.

Now, since I had Lasik, I have great distance vision, but because I'm 45, I can't see/read anything less than about 2 1/2 feet (estimated from the fact that my arms are too short to read ingredient labels any more) from my face without my readers. Always cycles.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who is a hypertext artist; based on this discussion, I think you would really enjoy a certain one of her pieces. I don't know if it is available, because it was commissioned and rejected, but I'm going to try to get it. The first two renditions of the story are based on her own experieces; she was legally blind until she got LASIK at age 25. Now, though she can see, she's face-blind and has a really hard time with body language. The third segment is one where the protagonist cannot sense other's heartbeats, when everyone else can.

The hypertext piece

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

Is at http://www.deenalarsen.net/datafeed/

She's one of the leaders in the genre; goes to conferences all over the world. I'd like to know your impression of it if you get a chance to look at it. I thought it was impressive, but then again, I could relate to some of the blindness stuff, and I'm a Science Fiction fan.