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THE INCREDIBLE PICTURES THAT REVEAL HOW THE HUMAN EYE LOOKS LIKE THE RUGGED CRATERS ON MARS
Daily Mail
Dec 29 2010
UK
These pictures are a sight for sore eyes.
For while they may resemble the dramatic surface of the Red Planet
they are actually the eye-catching images of the human iris in all
its glorious detail - each one as unique as a fingerprint.
Physics teacher Suren Manvelyan took these ocular portraits using
his friends, colleagues and pupils as models.
For the first time these intensely detailed shots provide a microscopic
look at the human eye structure, providing viewers with a different
perspective of its complexity.
The 34-year-old from Yerevan, Armenia, explains: 'It is quite natural
when you shoot macro shots of insects and plants, but to try to make
a picture of the eye? I did not expect these results.
'I was not aware they are of such complicated appearance. Everyday we
see hundreds of eyes but do not even suspect they have such beautiful
structure, like surfaces of unknown planets.'
Mr Manvelyan's 'Your Beautiful Eyes' series of photographs detail the
iris, that regulates the amount of light entering the eye, and the
pupil, the size of which is adjusted by muscles attached to the iris.
His work is literally eye-catching, but Mr Manvelyan, who started
experimenting with photography when he was 16 and is now a leading
photographer for Yerevan Magazine, is reluctant to share his technique.
'The process of taking these pictures is my secret,' he says.
view photos at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342468/Eye-catching-Incredible-pictures-time-reveal-human-eye-glory.html
From: A. Papazian
Daily Mail
Dec 29 2010
UK
These pictures are a sight for sore eyes.
For while they may resemble the dramatic surface of the Red Planet
they are actually the eye-catching images of the human iris in all
its glorious detail - each one as unique as a fingerprint.
Physics teacher Suren Manvelyan took these ocular portraits using
his friends, colleagues and pupils as models.
For the first time these intensely detailed shots provide a microscopic
look at the human eye structure, providing viewers with a different
perspective of its complexity.
The 34-year-old from Yerevan, Armenia, explains: 'It is quite natural
when you shoot macro shots of insects and plants, but to try to make
a picture of the eye? I did not expect these results.
'I was not aware they are of such complicated appearance. Everyday we
see hundreds of eyes but do not even suspect they have such beautiful
structure, like surfaces of unknown planets.'
Mr Manvelyan's 'Your Beautiful Eyes' series of photographs detail the
iris, that regulates the amount of light entering the eye, and the
pupil, the size of which is adjusted by muscles attached to the iris.
His work is literally eye-catching, but Mr Manvelyan, who started
experimenting with photography when he was 16 and is now a leading
photographer for Yerevan Magazine, is reluctant to share his technique.
'The process of taking these pictures is my secret,' he says.
view photos at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342468/Eye-catching-Incredible-pictures-time-reveal-human-eye-glory.html
From: A. Papazian