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Green Eyeby ~ahermin

Photography / Conceptual

"Your green eyes with their soft light
your eyes that promise sweet nights
bring to my soul a longing
of thirst for love's devine
in dreams I seem to hold you
to find you and enfold you
our lips meet and our hearts too
with a thrill so sublime
those cool and limbit green eyes
a pool where in my love lies
so deep that in my searching
for happiness I feel
that they will ever haunt me
all through my life they'll taunt me
but will they ever want me
green eyes
make my dream come true"

Barry Manilow

How does eye color work? Eye color comes from a combination of two black and yellow pigments called melanin in the iris of your eye. If you have no melanin in the front part of your iris, you have blue eyes. An increasing proportion of the yellow melanin, in combination with the black melanin, results in shades of colors between brown and blue, including green and hazel.

What we are taught in high school biology is generally true, brown eye genes are dominant over green eye genes which are both dominant over blue eye genes. However, because many genes are required to make each of the yellow and black pigments, there is a way called genetic compensation to get brown or green eyes from blue-eyed parents.

"Ai inchis marea in ochi...
In ochii mari...
Ai inchis marea in ochii mari
Ti se zbate
Valurile toate
Inspumate ma privesc"

Taxi

~JoeyVirginJr Aug 31, 2007

The opposing colors and shapes do give a lot of perfect focus to this picture like you are looking into someone's eye.

Or it's a sentient jellyfish on Mars.

And I remember those high school biology lessons exactly as you described them. Spot on.