The document is a photo essay exploring the author's experience of losing their glasses and being nearly blind for a day. It includes 6 photos with descriptions. The first photo shows hesitance to open one's eyes without glasses for fear of worsening blurred vision. Subsequent photos show the blurry, distorted vision without glasses and the need to close eyes and rest them. The fourth photo represents the author's reliance on glasses as a "tool to see the world." When the author finally finds their glasses, the last photo uses warm colors to represent regaining clarity of vision and the relief of being able to see clearly again.

1. Visualisation
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2. Introduction
Sight is a very beautiful thing, it gives us the
power to see; to visualize; to perceive the
world as it is. If a camera is a
photographer’s weapon to use on the world,
sight is his map.
And to have our sight taken away from us
can be a very cruel thing. And while such a
thing has never happened to me, I have lost
my tool to see before; my glasses. The
theme of this photo essay is the feeling; the
effect when a event like that happens.
I captured these photos in the more shadier
areas of my house to better highlight the
topic. Due to this, Shadows are present
within all the pictures, hopefully this does
not make it harder to see. If it does, well
sight does, ironically enough, happen to be

3. Eyes Wide Shut.
I could not see, when shut, I saw nothing but darkness, but when open, the world was blurred.
The first image I took, it more or less, reflects upon the feeling of hesitance (to open up my eyes)
that I felt after losing my glasses, for I feared that I would weaken my eyes even more (and thus
make my sight even blurrier.

4. Eyes Without Sight.
Blurry Distortion everywhere, the clearness that I was used to was gone, without my glasses, it
seemed as if the world had changed. My sight was now extremely blurry, and I found it hard to
focus on something without the consequence of a headache. This lead my eyes to slowly tire
themselves throughout the day.

5. Pause.
Unable to see properly, I could not do much but close my eyes, breathe in, and go along with my
day, watching the world as it passed by, a mix of distorted colours. The blurriness became taxing
on my eyes however, and I was forced to either blink rapidly or just close my eyes and rest them
for a while.

6. The Lens.
The tool I use to see the world. I rely on it heavily; to the point of almost complete dependency. A
day had passed, a day where I went hours just walking around half-blind, unable to process most
of the sights around me, as if my connection to my ability to see; to visualize was severed. And
when I recovered my glasses again, I could not help but feel grateful, as well as ashamed, as I
had never realized before this, how it would feel to not be able to see the world around me.

7. Eyes with Colour.
I could see, I could perceive, I could view the world as it was, and it was beautiful. I represented
the difference from the other pictures, by the variation in colour While the others featured colours
like Blue and White dominantly, this image has Orange, Pink, Red, warm colours to demonstrate
the sudden intake of clarity (of vision) that I had, as well as the warm feeling I received as I finally
put on my glasses again.

8. Closing Story
A bit unusual I'm sure, but I find the meaning of this
personal to me (as a person who relies on glasses).
Recently I had lost my pair, and I had to go an entire
day almost-blind. I felt lost that day, as if I had
misplaced my connection to the world visually.
(This is shown in the second image, of the near-blind
eye, hesitantly opening.)
And when I finally managed to find my glasses the
next day, it was as if that essential connection was
reestablished. I could finally open my eyes fully and
look in awe at what around me, seeing the world for
what it was, instead of distorted blurs.
Glasses, in a way, are like cameras. That might
sound foolish and stupid, but they allow us to see
things clearly, for those who can't do that naturally.
They give us a window, a lens to look into the world.