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Post by TheZebraShakes™ on Jun 27, 2009 8:05:56 GMT -5
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Post by Rojito on Jun 27, 2009 8:21:23 GMT -5
Beautiful... where do you live shakes? we had storms here, sometimes they can make unusual lights n such... something like eleven tornados touched down lol
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Post by TheZebraShakes™ on Jun 27, 2009 8:33:38 GMT -5
I'm in New York near NYC. The Hudson River is right down the hill from me.
We've had rain here for about 23 days in June, about ten inches of rain this month alone.
Yesterday we had some thunderstorms and this was the result.
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Post by VemuKhaham on Jun 27, 2009 14:59:23 GMT -5
Really awesome, TZS. If I didn't know better I'd say these pictures were photoshopped or something like it. Just watched one part of the BBC series Earth, best nature documentary there is. It's a miracle that even when you live somewhere for years, that environment can still surprise you in totally new ways.
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Post by Japic on Jun 30, 2009 0:58:55 GMT -5
....if only I could see red... <sigh> I'm sure it was lovely. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by VemuKhaham on Jun 30, 2009 5:00:57 GMT -5
What exactly is it that you see, then? I'm sorry if you get this question a lot, but I've no idea what being color blind might be. Do you see black and white only, or is that one of those stupid assumptions that ignorant people like me always make? Just genuine interest, I have really no idea.
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Post by Japic on Jul 5, 2009 1:25:00 GMT -5
I see some colors; just not all of them; not the full spectrum. Matter of fact Kman and I were just talking about this today and he found a picture on the internet that illustrates what you see, versus what I see. I can't find the pictures we looked at before; but I found one that follows the trend. If this image is what it should be then you will see two versions of the same thing. The left version is your eyes, the Right one, mine. For Shakes' pictures I'd say the sky looks smoky like; dim yes. But red? I would have never guessed it.  The one on the right looks only slightly dimmer. I can not tell any color difference between them. From what KMan tells me the pictures (we found before) are as different as night and day to you normal sighted folk. |
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Post by VemuKhaham on Jul 5, 2009 7:32:14 GMT -5
Doesn't that affect a great deal how you experience things, even your mood maybe? For instance, you must have a very different Yellowstone park than other people must have. But I won't push further. It's just something that intrigues me.
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Post by TheZebraShakes™ on Jul 5, 2009 17:58:45 GMT -5
I'd say it effects his driving. He has a great time 'cause he never sees the red lights so he never stops.
I have eye issues of my own and can't even begin to describe how I see the pictures. I can see color just fine, but detail and contrast is another issue altogether, especially at a distance.
I can say that often times I do feel as though I'm missing out on lots of things, and I always am. You live with it because it's all you have known. And you learn to live with the fact that people aren't always going to understand, no matter how much they think they do. I still go to the zoo and get upset because I can't see the tiger or the polar bear if they're too far from my range and everyone else is ohhing and ahhing at how neat they look.
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Post by TheUdjat on Jul 6, 2009 8:01:47 GMT -5
I, too, am intrigued by color-blindness. And yes, Japic, the two pictures are very different in coloring.
I'm not sure what you mean, Shakes, by lack of detail/contrast. It sounds like you're talking about more than just poor distance vision. 'Cause otherwise... that's why I wear glasses. My vision's not terrible, but at a distance, I can't make out letters or details, and hence, glasses. But what you're talking about sounds like more than that.
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