Red eyeglasses on the rise!
It seems that this Fall is going to be little hotter than usual, with all the designers in the industry leaning towards red frames for one of this seasons new trend.
Designers seem to be incorporating red into more and more of their new and classic frame styles. Red, classic and modern at the same time, there is a shade for everyone and the perfect color to instantly brighten up anyones look.
If you’re thinking “I could never pull them off” then just stop thinking. You’d be surprised how many customers say this, try on a pair and immediately fall in love – I mean, isn’t red the universal color for love, anyways?
Optical Images offers a variety of frames to choose from in different frame shapes, styles, “reds”- meaning all sorts of shades of reds (red doesn’t only come in fire-truck red or “Stop Sign” red) and frames with a touch of red detail. Come in today and try on a few- its funny how a simple change in your eyeglass style and frame color can not only transform your look, but the way you feel.
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Sama Eyewear is excited to launch their newest Fall collection.
The Brown/Horn combination is now available in a variety of our most popular styles and features a rich brown front perfectly matched with matte-finished, horn-colored temples. All styles are available upon request at Optical Images, Baltimore.
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Johns Hopkins Health Alert
How Cataracts Affect Your Vision
Sooner or later many of us will develop a cataract. Here in brief is an explanation of how cataracts affect vision.
Although the eyes are extremely complex organs, the principles of vision are quite simple: By adjusting, focusing and processing the light that reflects off objects, your eyes work in conjunction with your brain to allow you to see the world around you.
As light rays enter the eye, they first pass through the clear, protective cornea. Muscles in the iris (the colored part of the eye) contract or expand the pupil to adjust the amount of light entering the eye. The lens (a transparent, elastic structure) focuses the light to produce a sharp image on the retina (the layer of nerves lining the back of the eye). When light hits the retina, it is transformed into electrical signals that travel through the optic nerve to the brain, which interprets these signals as a visual image.
A cataract clouds the lens of the eye, interfering with clear vision. A healthy lens, which consists primarily of water and protein, is transparent. With age, however, changes occur in the lens — including the clumping together of proteins and other chemical transformations — that can lead to the development of a cataract. The resulting opacity scatters the light entering the eye, so that the light reaching the retina is diffuse rather than focused and precise.
The extent of a cataract’s effect on vision depends largely on its location.
- Cataracts covering the entire lens or those in the center of the lens (nuclear or posterior subcapsular cataracts, respectively) result in symptoms such as blurred vision, double vision and sensitivity to light and glare.
- Cataracts located on the outer edge of the lens may cause only slight visual disturbances that might not be noticed.
Posted in Vision on May 27, 2011
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