lindisfel
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I gennepher, I have the same problem with migraine auras, I can sympathise, one takes several days to feel better.
I gennepher, I have the same problem with migraine auras, I can sympathise, one takes several days to feel better.Ah, I didn't realise it was that bright @Muddy Cyclist
Sorry
I wear dark tinted glasses all the time anyway (to prevent visual migraines), and have no idea what my colour selection is like. However, for the first time in decades I am getting some clear varifocals (this optician thinks I will be okay with these particular ones that are being made, but I am having a 2nd pair done , supposedly for free,with different tinted lenses), so I might be able to paint in true colours (or I might end up putting sunglasses over them!)
I wish equipment like that costs a small fortune I'll just make do with my Tamron 70-300 mm lens.Hi John.
If you had owned the telephoto kit that took that picture, your Grey Heron pictures would win prizes and you would need a Sherpa to carry it all round the park!
I have so much backup on old systems you would not believe it!I wish equipment like that costs a small fortune I'll just make do with my Tamron 70-300 mm lens.
"I have some picts from the past worth posting."
Let's see them would be interested love looking at photo's taken with another persons's perspective unfortunately I had a lot of photo's digitally stored and a complete system crash involving me having to build basically a complete new system replacing hard drives mother board well the whole shabang really caused the loss of many of them even my raid system didn't save me.
I gennepher, I have the same problem with migraine auras, I can sympathise, one takes several days to feel better.
Sorry I didn't come back on yesterday, but I was shell shocked , I think (in a good way, before you panic).
When I got there, Specsavers were very good. They wore the shields. I did have all 3 of my deaf/need to lipread badges on my frontage.
I had an extra test, for eye health, which the lady said would cost me £10. I had read about it the night before and I decided to say yes. But when it came to paying the bill at the end they didn't charge me for the test It was deducted from my bill.
My eyes are better than they were last year. There is absolutely no diabetic retinopathy there anymore. And I've had that for the past few years, since 2017. And also nearly all the macular degeneration has gone that was there last year on the optician's computer, and I saw it on his screen last year and it was several black spots that were getting bigger and bigger each year, and he showed me (in 2019) the black spots from the previous years, and he had said, last year, that it was getting worse. So I was very surprised to see only one tiny shadow yesterday.
Consequently, I have been worried about my eyes all year and was worried about losing my eyesight, and I was even more worried when we did not have the retinopathy scan, the diabetic retinopathy scan by the NHS this year because of covid 19. There are there no plans to reintroduce it anytime soon by the NHS, in my area in Wales. So that is why I agreed to pay for that extra test which was only £10 and it was an intensive investigation by a computer into my eyes, and the health of my eyes, and apparently it can predict problems several years in advance before they actually become a big problem.
My eyes are both in absolute perfect health. The optician showed me his screens. No Diabetic retinopathy at all. Nothing. Also the previously increasing (over the years) several black areas of macular degeneration have completely gone, apart from that one small spot. The optician did say he could tell I had kept my diabetes very much in control because it was reflected in my eye health.
And my eyesight has improved. I can now drive without my glasses. The next section down in the test was 100% too. The last section I had trouble with the second letter (which turned out to be an 'r'), and so he told me that I wouldn't be able to get my pilot's licence...
Because I have not yet been recalled by St Paul's (because of Covid-19) the optometrist checked that too. He explained with the equipment he now has, he can do pretty much the checks the NHS do.
And they (Specsavers some of them) are taking on NHS work.
I need a new prescription (not so strong)! So new glasses. Money to pay out! Varifocals again because they help with tired eyesight, eyes do lose elasticity with age, and the varifocals help with the comfort of that.
I don't know if some of you remember, but I mentioned (probably just before Christmas) that I was taking an eye supplement. I had researched, and bought some around July 2019, and I had been taking them for 6 months in December 2019. And that December I had noticed that:
1) my dry eyes with Sjogrens Syndrome, had improved a lot.
2) I wasn't blinded by that low in the sky bright winter sun when driving anymore.
3) Night time vision had improved and I wasn't blinded by headlights coming at me any more.
4) I could see better driving through tunnels, they didn't seem so dim any more.
And I might have said I was hoping that my eyes would be no worse at my next optometrist visit in 6 months time.
I was very anxious about yesterday's appointment. I have been anxious all year because last year he was telling me macular degeneration was progressive. I wasn't expecting this kind of improvement. I had felt my eyesight was better.
I am assuming that this eye supplement played some big part in all this. But obviously I cannot prove anything. Except I am shell shocked at this improvement in one whole year.
When I got back home the cat was upset, I had been gone awhile because I got to the optician's early so I could park outside. And I had done a bit of shopping while I was there in that town, and I found a shop toilet I could use! The first public toilet I have found open since lockdown began in March!
Poor Popeye, he was very vocal with me, not happy at all, quite disturbed I had left him. So the both of us went to bed. He calmed down immediately. And I fell asleep. So I didn't look in yesterday. I will play catch up this morning after I have done a ZenBrush2 painting....
I went to a lecture by Colin Prior landscape photographer, his advice was take lessI have so much backup on old systems you would not believe it!
There is too much to sort out!
When I used to have my Pentax and used actual film I was much more selective and focused on the photo's I took as didn't want to waste exposures on any old thing in those days I had a dark room set up at home and did all my own developing and printing I found it far more satisfying than today's digital age to be honest.I went to a lecture by Colin Prior landscape photographer, his advice was take less. He says on his workshops people take thousands of images in a day of the subject he's set. They are always amazed when back in the studio and he tells them he only took 7. One of the downfalls of digital photography.
@gennepher - I'm so glad that your eye appointment worked out so well, all these delayed tests and appts. because of covid are extra stress inducing aren't they
I like your bird and the background textures are a nice addition. Your latest painting is a joyful, colourful thing
art bit -
using layers looks like an interesting way of working. I don't know whether I have the discipline to have all those layer and brush choices, I have enough trouble with one layer and a couple of brushes and picking one colour at a time
Could be fun though
no 1 - just some cloud studies comparing materials
the first one is done in watercolour pencils, second in inktense pencils and the third in watercolour.
no 2 -
tried adding some inktense pencil to a watercolour.
Three very good sky studies and an accomplished Watercolour with some mixed media. I like the third watercolour study the best along with the final seascape.art bit -
There was always something pleasing about working on the image in the developer, trying to bring out parts by rubbing the paper with the chemicals. Never seemed any regards for what they were doing to our skin or all that electrical equipment around running water. My dark room had to be set up in the utility and often Mrs MC or one of my kids would burst in and switch the light on ruining my handy work.When I used to have my Pentax and used actual film I was much more selective and focused on the photo's I took as didn't want to waste exposures on any old thing in those days I had a dark room set up at home and did all my own developing and printing I found it far more satisfying than today's digital age to be honest.
Thank you so much for that - much appreciatedI will enclose a photo of the packet @Mrs T 123 it is easier than explaining. It is not readable in thumbnail, so I apologise for doing a big pic.
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There are no fillers or bulking agents in this one, which other tablets have.
It was around 6 months in, as I said, before I noticed some definite improvements that I mentioned. Then now, after a year of taking them (last Wednesday), my optometrist gave me the good news I mentioned in my post. It will be interesting to see what my eye health is when I have my next eye check in one year's time. And I will continue to take these tablets. They benefit me.
It is easy to worry because we have a long wait between one appointment and the next (often a whole long year), although I can walk into my optometrist anytime and ask for a check. However, this Covid-19 thing messed up accessibility and availability of many things, that could have put our minds at ease.
I got these tablets off Amazon.
I hope this helps.
Beautiful! We have had stormy skies then sun all day. Very dramatic.The Heather seen today on my Muddy Cycle ride, stormy sky but the sun lifted the heathland. A4 watercolour about 1 hour with some drying time between layers.
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