Good morning, if it is at all possible, stay in doors and don’t go near the melee of shoppers.
Hili is a little solipsistic this morning, and who can blame her. She is hardly to blame for lens flares and light refraction.
A: Look, in this picture you have one green eye and one brown eye!
Hili: A cat’s eyes are built differently. Here I see only the beauty of a cat.
In Polish:
Ja: Popatrz, na tym zdjęciu masz jedno oko zielone, a drugie brązowe.
Hili: Oczy kota są inaczej zbudowane, ja tu widzę tylko piękno kota.
Hello, awww she is gorgeous 😀
The animal version of “red eye”. Here is all about it.
Having non-brown eyes, I never appear in a photo using flash without some red eye.
Very accurate article, except in the introduction: the effect is *not* dependent on the possession of a ‘tapetum lucidum’, the latter may give reflections that are not necessarily red. The rest of the article explains why we humans, having no tapetum, do have a red reflection.
Of note is that these photos -before the advent of ‘pre-flashes’, reducing mydriasis before the actual photo is taken- often was the first sign of retinoblastoma in young children, leading to (well not always in time) life-saving amputating (enucleation) surgery.
Once the flash is moved off-axis, red-eye and its non-human equivalents vanishes. And even better if the flash is modified or bounced intelligently and balanced with ambient….
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as re Mz Hili’s & All of December’s Kitties’ Eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqz9eyakGqY
of thus: http://www.metrolyrics.com/my-eyes-adored-you-lyrics-frankie-valli.html
Pretty, Pretty Kitty … … Hili —
Blue
There is a condition, Fuch’s heterochromic irido-cyclitis, aka Fuch’s heterochromic anterior uveitis, where one iris progressively turns lighter (blue, in other words) than the other.
These eyes also tend to develop glaucoma. It is one of the uveitis-es that do not respond to steroids at all, and the only therapy we have is anti-glaucomatous drugs, which may preserve vision, if the response is good.
Uveitic eyes tend to not respond well in (glaucoma) surgery.
The precise cause is not known, but is generally assumed to be genetic (I have problems to understand why a genetic condition would be systematically unilateral(?)), albeit not congenital.
I have no idea if non-congenital heterochromia in cats might be the same type of uveitic disease.