After posting Mike’s extreme close up, our friend Justin noticed that Mike had “Central Heterochromia” in his eyes. NOOOOO!!!?! My husband has what?!!?! Will he make it out alive?!!?!? I quickly Googled it in a panic!
Whew… what a relief when I found that Mike was going to live through it!
Here’s what Wikipedia told me, “Central heterochromia is an eye condition where there are two colors in the same iris; the central (pupillary) zone of the iris is a different color than the mid-peripheral (ciliary) zone.”
It seems that it’s just a fancy term for the inside of your iris being a different color than the outside of your iris.
Whatever, I’d already committed myself to blogging about it… I was in too deep to back out now!
In prepping for this captivating blog entry, I took a photo of his eye. 🙂
WHOA!!!!! What a cool little project this was for me! Eyes are wild I tell you!
It’s like his pupil is on fire and his iris is trying to put the fire out! Too abstract of a visual? Maybe. Whatever… I like it! Anyway… look at the pattern and texture… so damn cool! Oh, and let it be known… the color in this image has not been enhanced.
I’m obsessed with Mike (as though you didn’t know) and knew he had bi-colored eyes… but I had NO idea that his eyes were this awesome. Oh man he’s pretty! 😀
Side note: auto focusing a macro lens on a pupil is damn near impossible… take it from me, switch over to manual focus and save yourself a lot of headache! (it kept focusing on my reflection… argh!)
After being shock and awed while looking at his eyeball on the back of the camera, I handed the camera to him… “Here, take one of my eye!”
WHOA! What are those things?! It’s like there are little squiggly blue-ish streams popping out from my pupil… That’s CRAZY! Furthermore, what are those peach patches?! I had NO idea that my eye looked like that! Now, it’s no secret that I don’t wear makeup… so I don’t look super closely at myself in the mirror like most women do (unless my unibrow is making an appearance… but that’s for a whole different, equally captivating blog entry 😉 ).
EDITED TO ADD :: My eyes change color in the winter to a gray color… in the summer they’re blue. Maybe I’ll re-take it in June! K, that’s all ::
In conclusion… it seems that Mike isn’t quite as special as I thought he was with his super rare Heterochromia. Though, let’s be real… in the cool eye color department… he wins… hands down!
I’m going to make it my mission to photograph all of my loved ones eyes with a macro lens! So friends and family, you’ve been warned. 😉
Much love friends…
~bobbi ❗
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Love it! Am so reassured to hear that I’m not the only one not to wear makeup… 🙂 Silly I know but he 🙂
PS: the eye and pupil design is one of the most fascinating part of the body to me, am so glad you shared about it 🙂 !
so fascinating!!! you both have amazing eyes
This is fantastic! Very cool little project.
Love the eye shots!
See? Now when you guys hear “You have “THE EYE”” You can mean that in more ways than one.
Such beautiful eyes, both of you!
Oh wow! Mike’s eyes are KILLER! They really do look like a fire explosion. I expect James Bond to come walking out of his pupil anytime now.
very cool project…think I might try this.
Emily… HAHAHA! James Bond… HAAAA!!!!! That seriously made me laugh WAY out loud! HAAHAHAHAAA!!!!!
Wild! I totally need to do this of my family. (Next time you are in town, let’s play! I don’t have a macro!)
I have that too! When people look at my eyes closely they are always shocked to see that “fire” look. 🙂
awesome!!
This is wayyyy cool! You both have beautiful eyes!
Ahhh I have the same thing as Mike!!! Maybe that’s why you told me I had beautiful eyes at the Renaissance booth at WPPI!! ;D
Great pics!!!
Both of you have such beautiful eyes!! Absolutely <3 the color combos! Your eyes remind me of Van Gogh's Starry Night!!
AWWWESOME!!!!
that’s awesome. my eyes change color depending on what I am wearing….
Loved this! And whoa some wicked color in those eyes! My eyes also change from blue to gray.
This is so cool! I had no idea it had a name, I have the same thing (with green and brown) and mine change color prominence depending on my mood! Really really cool to capture of those you love!
Kasey, do they change with the seasons like mine do?
WOAH! This is awesome!! I have boring poop brown eyes!! haha your babies will have BEAUTIFUL eyes!!!!
Cool! I’m gonna have to do this with my hubs…I’ve always said he has “rainbow eyes”. Now I know the real name for it. (though, a I type this, I can’t remember what it is!). Cool post!
Hehe – This post made me really laugh out loud. I like you.
Jenna, 🙂 It’s because you know me and can probably hear my crazy voice as you read it… most just think I’m crazy! 😀
Wow – cool photos! Mike’s got that intense vampire look in his eyes 🙂 (apparently I watch too many vampire shows!) beautiful!
There are people at the health food store who will read your iris and tell you what is wrong with you. It was a very interesting experience for me and my husband. You could, also, say it was “eye opening”.
I’m obsessed. With both of your eyes. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
Bobbi- looks like you have sectoral hetereochromia.
On another note hetereochromia is the featured picture today on wikipedia.
Ha! I *told* you Mike’s eyes needed their own blog post!
(Really. Look it up. I did.) And I am putting on the macro
tomorrow and taking eyeball pics!
Sooooo cool!!! May I ask your settings on your eye macro shots? Now I wanna play around!! 🙂
seriously. amazing. eyes. now i wanna take macros shots of eyes! and ps mkes eyes remind me of Lord of the Rings or something, but not as scary, or something. Totally amazeballs!
okay wow wow wow… now i wanna take close ups of eyes of EVERYONE! haha!
Love, love, love your post! 🙂 Mike’s eyes are pretty unusual looking, and if anyone should know it’s me. My day job is working as an optometrist, which I’ve been doing for 12 years. As you can imagine, I’ve looked at A LOT of eyes, and I’ve never seen any with quite the unusual orange color pattern of Mike’s! (PS. Your camera struggles to auto focus on the pupil because there is nothing there. The pupil isn’t a structure it’s just empty space.)
A million years ago you photographed Tracy Lonergan and Ric Gray’s wedding. I used to work with Tracy’s sister, and that’s how I got introduced to your amazing photography years ago.
Thanks for sharing!
COOL! I bet there are a ton of people out there now taking pics of their eyes now!
Hey I have that thing Mike has! Cool!
My brother has the same thing with his eyes but his eyes are blue and yellow. When i was younger i used to judge his mood by how ‘on fire’ his eyes looked…they really look like their burning when hes angry. His daughter has the same but not quite as yellow as his. Mine are just grey,i think all the time…maybe thats a red head thing?
Elle
I am in the market for an 85mm 1.2. This made me drool. Awesome Post.