I’m going through a sun flare obsession and have been pointing my camera right at the sun and carelessly shooting away at it for twenty minutes at a time. After I finish, I see black spots and floaters all over my field of vision, at which point I realize that I’ve done something terrible to my eyes. Staring directly at the sun is very, very dangerous and can cause blindness – duh, I’m so caught up in my own little photographic world, that these simple dos and don’ts have gone way over my head. I have a nagging feeling, so I went and booked an eye appointment for next Saturday because that was the earliest time available – I hate that. I sound like an overreacting nut, but I’m especially cautious with matters of the eye because my brother has a history of retinal detachment and has permanently lost a part of his vision. Whenever I forget, he reminds me not to take my eye sight for granted. I can’t imagine losing a PART of my vision, let alone all of it.
On anther note, blindness from photography? That’s love. Photo below is the result of shooting at the sun and potentially going blind.
I am road tripping down to Montrose, Pennsylvania at 4:00AM and will be back Monday evening. I am bringing my laptop with me in case I can connect to the internet and post a photo a day. If not, I’ll catch up on Monday. Have a supercalifragilistic long weekend! They only come around once in a while.
