My most shocking, intimate photos By Mark Morford

These are my retinas.

Aren't they spectacular? Aren't they beguiling? Aren't they sort of magical and revelatory, intimate and true?

I don't mind bragging. I don't mind showing you. I don't mind revealing my innermost visual realms because, well, I believe I have nothing to fear from sharing. After all, it's not like I'm giving you my ATM number, home address or admin access to my Facebook page. They're just retinas. I'm oddly proud of them. How much am I giving away by showing you? How much do you think they reveal, really?

A hell of lot, it turns out. My new eye doc recently snapped these pics during a routine exam, in the midst of measuring and zapping, dilating and focusing. She then instantly showed them to me on a high-res monitor Ð all praise to the amazing tech age, baby -- in her office and, upon my enthralled questioning, proceeded to go into all sorts of wondrous detail about what these images contain, all the blood vessels and optic nerves (the bright white area), the various focal regions (the denser reds) and healthy shapes and luminous textures. It was, in a word, entrancing. ...

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