bcla photographic competition: 2008 winning entries
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The BCLA held its annual photographic competition at its Clinical Conference in 2008, and the top three winning entries can beseen below. We hope you will be inspired to submit your entries for the 2009 conference. Further details for submission can befound at http://www.bcla.org.uk/conf_photo.asp
1st place: Dimple veiling captured immediately after lens removal, following the first overnight wear of ortho-K lenses
Photograph by Tsui Tsui Lee
Announcement
BCLA photographic competition: 2008 winning entries
Contact Lens & Anterior Eye 31 (2008) 329–330
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
doi:10.1016/j.clae.2008.10.004
2nd place: This picture shows the tear film evaluation of a 62 year old male patient using the keeler tearscope. This patient isused to wearing bifocal RGP lenses. He was complaining about dryness and blurred vision with the lenses which was caused bylipid deposition on the lens surface
Photograph by Sylvia Wulf
3rd place: Acute corneal hydrops occurs when the cornea stretches to such a degree that a tear develops in Descemet’s mem-brance, allowing inflow of aqueous fluid into the corneal stroma. The corneal stroma can swell to greater than five times its nor-mal thickness
Photograph by Maria Jose Bautista
Sponsors of the BCLA Photographic Competition 2008:
330 Contact Lens & Anterior Eye 31 (2008)