Lens - Thematic Photography

Washington's Jonas has reached the UK and has now been named Storm Gertrude. The strong winds and rain make it an unsuitable day for outdoor photography or for wearing sunglasses.

However I found a model prepared to show off a pair with engraved lenses.

This pair were a 'freebie' from a golf tournament in Norway in the 1980s.

The 'engraved' lens shows who they were given to.

Yours truly

The other lens had an engraved logo for the annual Oilmen's Tournament at Stavanger Golf Club.

A search for other lenses produced these old pairs - oh why haven't they been thrown away.

From back to front - Burberry and two pairs of RayBan's

They could not possibly have been mine.

As I have got older and taken other hobbies up again, my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be.

I have to resort to the use of:

Lenses that magnify

But if I'm honest they are not:

Big enough

Perhaps I should have been aware of the lens that magnified this.

Oops

Honest I wasn't trying to take a selfie with this.

A phone that's not smart enough to take photos in either direction

Mind you it's lens is a thing to be admired.

Camera lens

There was a time when I wore contact lenses but not ones discarded like these:

Dailies worn by my wife

She used to wear spectacles for many years as this earlier photo shows.

I wonder if that was the pair with which my ear was once entangled in a Lincolnshire cinema.

I just hope that Carmi realises what trouble his Thematic-photographic-365-lens has now got me into. 

I can hardly say my lenses were steamed up and I didn't see it coming.

Size Small - Thematic Photography

Every now and Carmi sets us a theme on which I can't wait to get started.

Nature gives us many small sized creatures including those not for arachnophobes.

Its shadow would be enough for me

So here's something much more appealing,

Young rabbit

This year I have been fortunate enough to come across this in a Cornish wood.

Comma butterfly on a bramble leaf

Now that autumn has begun there are some small sized creatures that look for somewhere warmer.

Garden snail inside our tool store

I guess small boys qualify for this theme too.

All alone, dribbling down the touchline, oblivious to his surroundings

Sometimes I find cup-shaped items in surprising places.

Discarded contact lenses

Perhaps it would be better to be wearing them when trying to assemble the fob for our garage door.

Especially for the damned small size

Screw

For creatures and objects great to see but small in size follow the links at Thematic-Photographic-353,