This guy in my study window reminds me of a critter from the DOS-based “Commander Keen” computer game series (from too long ago!). But that has little to do with this post.
(Alas, today was not an “abstract” day.) This is, clearly, a stylized magnifying glass. With my over-40 eyes — sigh — I needed it in “tight quarters” to re-hang a bathroom cabinet that had been taken off the wall for our recent painting project. When I was finished hanging the cabinet, I set this guy in my office window. Seeing the inverted image of the house, I thought I'd do another experiment with auto-focus.
I had to go to manual focus to focus the inverted image in the magnifying glass. The camera, of course, wanted to focus on the window and the magnifying glass. You can still see the window screen in the magnified image…
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...
@michelleyoung If I had a Danbo, I could have put him alongside! (Welcome home!)
@espyetta Thank you so much for your fav and kind-and-generous words, MaryBeth! I really appreciate it all!
@digitalrn Alas, bifocals have been part of my life for 1½ decades already. It's been those "tight spots tasks" around the house that have been the most, er, shall we say “challenging”?
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@harley84 Aw, thanks, Katherine!!
@michelleyoung If I had a Danbo, I could have put him alongside! (Welcome home!)
@espyetta Thank you so much for your fav and kind-and-generous words, MaryBeth! I really appreciate it all!
@digitalrn Alas, bifocals have been part of my life for 1½ decades already. It's been those "tight spots tasks" around the house that have been the most, er, shall we say “challenging”?