There's so much poetic romanticism around eyes (i.e. "the eyes are window to the soul"). Thematically, it really seems like humans have some sort of fixation with them.
But in reality, I think we know very little about them.
I've been collecting some macro shots of eyes over the years, and I wanted to share my photography with you all, as well as some cool facts about these little gummy spheres in our skulls. If you like my photography, check out my other macro shots on my blog!
Eyes are the second-most complex organ after the brain. (discoveryeye.org)
The pupil of the human eye expands as much as 45 percent when you look at someone you love. (WSU)
If you're afraid of eyes, you are ommatophobic.
Human eyes blink 17 times every minute on an average.
This sums up to 14,280 blinks each day and 5.2 million blinks every year. (factslegends.org)
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet with each eye lash having a life span of about 5 months. (discoveryeye.org)
Your iris (the colored part of your eye) has 256 unique characteristics; your fingerprint has just 40. (versanthealth.com)
The world’s most common eye color is brown, but brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown pigment. (WSU)
