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Eye for an Eye *


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janewigginsphotography10-Jun-2006 23:03
Not to worry Victor - I don't see many comments here in exhib so even a story such as yours is nice to read. My son works is a mechanical engineer so I think he has had some experience with metal in the eye as well :0 jano
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Jun-2006 03:01
At the risk of clogging up your forum, I've got to tell you a little story. A few years ago I went to the eye doctor because of what I thought was an ulcer on my eyelid. It had been irritating me for a good week. The doctor looked carefully at my eye and informed me I had an iron filing right in the center of my cornea. He told me to look straight ahead and not to blink, while he extracted the bit of metal with a tweezer. I did not blink.

Then he informed me that since it was iron and had been there a few days, it had rusted, and he'd have to remove the rust from my eye. He got out his tool of choice, a dentist drill, and gave me the same instruction. The drill wasn't hooked up to compressed air or whatever dentists use. It was only the important end of the drill: the bit and mechanism holding it. He spun it up with his hand and then approached my eyeball with it exactly like the needle here.

But his aim was to gouge out the metal, so I had to keep from blinking while he drilled out the rust. There are no nerves in the cornea, by the way, so the only sensation I had was some slight pressure on my eyeball, and, of course, the view of the drill coming straight to the center of my eye. I didn't blink that time either. -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Jun-2006 02:43
Thanks Aaron - my son had a hard time holding the needle so close to his eye lol jano
Guest 08-Jun-2006 20:20
this picture makes me blink just looking at it! great photo, thanks for sharing.
janewigginsphotography04-Jun-2006 13:54
Thanks Jim! jano
Canon DSLR Challenge04-Jun-2006 09:55
Thanks for fixing this one. The original was extremely close to passing the test. It was one of the ones that I think might have had differences in the RGB entirely due to rounding issues. But this version is pure greyscale so far as my "tools" tell me. Thanks for taking the effort to redo it. This is an amazing photo and a neat concept! Excellent. Jim H.
janewigginsphotography04-Jun-2006 04:14
Thanks Techo - Yes, this is b&w... jano
Canon DSLR Challenge04-Jun-2006 04:03
Great shot Jano! this would've worked great for extreme too.
I hope its ok because I took the image and desaturated it and looked exactly the same. So it must be pure b/w here. I see though how one can be mistaken, I thought it had some sephia in it myself at first.
-Techo
Canon DSLR Challenge04-Jun-2006 03:29
Under the new Greyscale rules, this excellent photo will need to be reprocessed to remove all traces of color. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Jim H.