What You See Is What You See

2.43MB Composite Imgae by Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
June 27, 2016 12:35pm CST
Well, some folks can see stuff a whole lot better than can other folks. So, what can you do when you are one of those "other folks?" You head for the eye glasses place. About those places - some of them come complete with eye doctors and techies running around in starched white coats, all trying to see what you have in your wallet. "Did you bring cash or a credit card?" Not, "Which of those pretty blue (or brown) eyes is bugging you today?" Everything is real scientific and medsy in those doctor-techie kinds of eye places. There are, however, other kinds of eye glass places. There is one here in town by the name of "Reading Glasses To Go." No white-coated techies to be seen there - just a nice lady who is always smiling (even when she knows you cannot yet see that smile) and who stands behind a little sales counter near the back end of the store. Guess what that store has for sale. Reading glasses. The kind of reading glasses that have both a lefthand glass lens and a righthand glass lens, plus the usual ear-catcher and nose holder things. All sorts of different colors and shapes are there to hold those glass lenses, too. Racks and racks of reading glasses. Drawer after drawer of the things in the many cabinets that fill the store. I stopped by that "Reading Glasses To Go" place the other day. I needed some more powerful magnifying glasses than the "3-powers" that I already own, like maybe a "4-power" deal. After I bought a pair of that power to suit my fancy, I pulled my little Canon camera off of my belt and managed to snap 6 pix of the inside of the place before the camera battery croaked. When I got back to my computer machine, I loaded the 6 pix into the composite-making program and stitched those pix together into the long, skinny image you see above.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
27 Jun 16
Am I seeing what I am seeing? I like stores like that if to do nothing but look at what they have. Neat name for that store "Reading Glasses To Go."
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
28 Jun 16
@Ceerios That is good they have 2 stores in TX and 1 in OK with an internet site also, they are coming on strong aren't they.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
28 Jun 16
@Marcyaz - Just had a nice supper crafted by my far-sighted bride. Yes. That little store chain is coming along pretty nicely. From what I learned, there is one owner. The stores are evidently operated by a single clerk-salesperson in each one. I do not know who or how they run their website, but it is quite a good site. The business name caught my attention, so I paid them a visit and then I paid them for a 4X pair of reading glasses with which to do some closeup work with producing photo-paper-printed and "stitched-together" composite images, some of them many feet long and wide, but which are joined of separate pieces that have to be matched precisely. How's that for a long and happy comment to your most welcome words?
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
27 Jun 16
@Marcyaz - You are seeing what you are seeing, for a fact. This store sells reading glasses and only reading glasses. Actually, the owners have three of these stores - one in Houston, TX, one in Tulsa, OK, and one in Dallas, TX, plus a big Internet website with some pretty nifty imaging stuff. I agree with you about that catchy business name.
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Jun 16
Those fine young men in their clean white coats... They're coming to take me away... Oops, wrong song. Superb photo there!
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
27 Jun 16
@pgntwo - Friend PGN - Ahhhh - you have stirred the memory pot nicely.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
27 Jun 16
And a very impressive image it is. I bet the store owners would like to see it too.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
27 Jun 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - Had the Canon camera battery not fizzled out on me, I would have made a 360-degree composite of the entire store, but you do what you can do, right? Bye-the-bye... "sizewise" the image is 2.43 Megabytes. So now we know that you can upload at least that much stuff onto MyLot. I plan to return to the store and shoot some more pix - with re-charged batteries in the camera the next time.
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