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So this one is kinda creepy, I know. Yes, it's my eye.
This is actually the third macro shoot I've done to try and get a good photo of an iris. There are all sorts of neat little folds and details in that muscle that makes up the iris, I wanted to capture it. This picture turned out to be more about the reflections and the overall eye instead.
I've shot my own eye twice, and once Sarah volunteered. But she didn't care much for the claustrophobia-inducing closeness of the lens, and it was a quick shoot. I will try to bribe her to do it again, because I saw something really interesting in the differences between our irises.
Besides the basic color differences (me brown, her green), my irises as you can see above, sort of look like thick dough. Alternately, Sarah's green irises looked like thousands of wavy green threads arranged radially. The difference is very interesting. I'll post a comparison in the future.
In other eye trivia, the eye's lens is the only place on our bodies which is not oxygenated by blood, rather, it gets oxygen directly from the air. Contact lenses have micro perforations in them that allow the air to still contact enough of the eye to keep it healthy. This is one reason why cleaning your contacts is important, to keep those tiny holes from clogging up.
Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.
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