The Native Floridian – Wayne Roth Photography

As a Florida photographer I could not resist posting some vintage footage of some lobster diving trips. I shot these clips with the old Sony DCR TRV20 with a Dolphin Pro housing as my Photography Equipment. We always managed to get our limit of lobster on these dives. Maybe it was because I always paid my dues lugging all of the camera gear in and out of the water on every dive. While I typically do not shoot any video footage for my clients now I will shoot some short clips with my Canon 5D Mark II. I do animate the still photography pictures and put them to music for my clients and they seem to really enjoy the share the picture videos. More and more of my time is going towards promoting Dog Photography and horse photography events.   But for now enjoy some diving trip on the “Afternoon Delight” with “The Native Floridian” and don’t forget to bring along your camera so you too can “Preserve Your Adventure”.  Or you can bring me along, the ultimate Florida Photographer.

This is where I shamelessly plug all of the Photography Equipment that I love and use.

• Canon EOS 5D Mark II – This has a huge 21 mega pixel full frame CMOS sensor.  The RAW image file sizes range anywhere from 25-30 mb per image!
• Canon 24-70 mm /f2.8 L lens. Great lens for tight situations like a boat.
• Canon 100-400 mm /f4.5-5.6 L IS.  Great for wildlife photography.
• Canon Speedlite 550EX Flash
• Wolverine FlashPac 7160 – 160GB External Portable Hard Drive
• Lexar Professional UDMA 8 GB Compact Flash 300x Speed

My eye floaters appeared to have gotten worse over the last couple of days.  This is not uncommon for me as I have been changing my diet and lifestyle over the last couple of months and have seen this happen before.  It just hasn’t been for the better.

In the previous post I was giving some suggestion on what changes I am going to start implementing in my life:

So here is what we are starting with now that the statistics have been set, including my Photography Equipment for the eyes, GHP Sport and Bazi.

• I am going to continue to take GHP Sport every night before bed and three times a week prior to exercise.

• I am also going to keep taking Bazi 1.5 oz twice a day.  (Once in the morning and another time later in the day.)
• 30 minutes of cardio exercise 6 times a week.  (I am easily doing this 3 times a week already.)
• Eat one salad per day.
• Eat One orange/grapefruit in the morning.
• Start off with a 50% cooked and 50% raw food intake.
• Attempt to get 30 minutes of sunshine each day with as much skin exposed as possible.

One important thing I failed to include in this list was “DO NOT OVEREAT!”.  Do not overeat.  Do not Over Eat.  Do Not Over Eat.  DO NOT OVEREAT!
That should cover it.  I have read numerous articles about overeating.  Even if you eat perfectly, when you overeat, the body is unable to process the food correctly.  If we just eat smaller portions more frequently our body will thank us.

• Do not overeat.

Back to Eye Floaters or Eye Floaties.  I noticed that floaters were more prevalent just recently.  The following are a couple of things that might have contributed to this:

• I overate a heavy meal of steak and potatoes.  (It was delicious.  I got pulled in.)
• Cold Front with the coldest weather of the year. (Not sure what this has to do with Floaters, coincidence?)
• Lots of Salt.  (I caved and ate a whole bucket of salted popcorn at the movies.)
• Detoxification. ( I am detoxifying from two plus months of eating very poorly.)
• Lack of sleep.  (I had not been sleeping very well.)

I will attempt to track the amount of floaters in my eyes and see if I can pinpoint what benefits or hurts this condition the most.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

One last thought.  Before I started using GHP Sport and Bazi, my photography equipment for the eyes, when I ate a steak one or both of my eyes would be completely bloodshot the next day.  This happened almost every time I consumed red meat.  Now I am able to get away with eating red meat and the bloodshot eye rarely happens.  Even when my diet is not the best the combination of the GHP Sport and Bazi keeps my eyes as clear and white as I can remember!   I have even had a reduction in a Pterygium and that rarely bothers me.  Not as I clean up my diet I should really see some great results in 2010.  It’s going to be a great year!

My eyes are the most important piece of Photography Equipment I own.  I have always had floaties or floaters in my eyes.  We are going to find out if you can do something about floaties.  But first some people might want to what an eye floatie is. Eye floaties are clumps of debris that float about in the vitreous cavity of your eye. They cast off a shadow on your retina which shows up as a floatie when you view an unpatterened surface or background such as a blue sky. As your eye moves your eye, the eye floaties appear to move with your line of site. Even though the floaties are normal, they can be quite bothersome. Some learn to live with them, but if they are causing problems for you, some poeple claim you can take steps to improve them and even clear them up all together.  I figure I would be a great test case.

I have had floaties for a long time.  They were barely noticeable back when I was about 6 and lying on the front seat of the boat seasick staring at the sky or the white fiberglass side of the boat.  I would notice a couple of objects that appeared to be floating in my eye.  That was when I first discovered them.

They have not been a problem for me.  However they have become more noticeable over the last 2 or 3 years.  I do notice that they fluctuate getting better and worse throughout the year.  For the last two years my diet and lifestyle has also gotten better and worse.

So being this is the beginning of a new year, why not do a little test and see if I can get some improvements with the amount of eye floaties as well as my vision.  This way as I clean up my diet and lifestyle I will document vision changes.

Let’s start with the basic statistics.  I am 41 year old, 6′-2″, 196 pounds (after two months of holiday gorging) and have noticeable eye floaties when I stare at a blue sky, a white wall, or my computer screen with a blank document.  With my left eye my vision clears up enough to read at 7″ from my face and with my right eye the vision clears up at about 12 or 13″.  So, No reading glasses for me and my arms are plenty long enough.  I can see close to 20-20 with both eyes open.

I have noticed in the past that my vision appeared to get better and colors became more vivid as I cleaned up my diet and ate much more raw fruits and vegetables.

So here is what we are starting with now that the statistics have been set, including my nutritional photography equipment that I take for my eyes, GHP Sport and Bazi.

• I am going to continue to take GHP Sport every night before bed and three times a week prior to exercise.

• I am also going to keep takingBazi1.5 oz twice a day.  (Once in the morning and another time later in the day.)
• 30 minutes of cardio exercise 6 times a week.  (I am easily doing this 3 times a week already.)
• Eat one salad per day.
• Eat One orange/grapefruit in the morning.
• Start off with a 50% cooked and 50% raw food intake.
• Attempt to get 30 minutes of sunshine each day with as much skin exposed as possible.

That should be a good start.