Gwen and Jason Barnes get their eyes Lasiked
E8800, 2008:06:20 12:56:17 -- 1/3 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Here's the surgery room. It was actually pretty dark in there, these are 1/2 second exposures with the glass between me and them used to stabilize the camera.
E8800, 2008:06:20 12:56:42 -- 0.2 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

The machines and the TV screen where I watched the closeups.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:00:41 -- 0.4 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Here's the doctor checking that Gwen's ready to go.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:03:00 -- 0.8 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.2448x3264 Large -- Medium

All laid out.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:03:26 -- 0.3 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Those lights are particularly bright when they're pointed in your eye, I can assure you!
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:03:56 -- 0.6 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

E8800, 2008:06:20 13:04:20 -- 0.3 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Gwen, calm at the center of the storm so far.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:05:38 -- 1.1 sec, f/4.1.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Here's the doctor.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:07:05 -- 0.4 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

They do both eyes in like 10 minutes, and they do tens of people in a day, so they've got the thing down pretty pat by now. Very efficient operation.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:07:12 -- 0.4 sec, f/2.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

E8800, 2008:06:20 13:07:50 -- 1/3 sec, f/3.2.  No Flash, Compulsory.2448x3264 Large -- Medium

Getting down to it here.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:08:16 -- 0.2 sec, f/4.2.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Can't see much more in the big view, so these are photos of the TV screen. Here they're cleaning things.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:08:26 -- 1/3 sec, f/4.2.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

No idea what the little loop step is.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:09:01 -- 0.2 sec, f/4.2.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

This mideval-torture-device looking thing holds your eye open. They keep dropping tears in there so it's not the end of the world, but it's not pleasant, either.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:09:09 -- 0.1 sec, f/4.2.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

This is the lower portion of the blade that slices the front of your eye off. They attach it and then sucker it down so that you can't move your eye around and ruin things.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:09:36 -- 0.2 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Closeup of the doctor with computer monitor behind.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:09:59 -- 0.3 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Using the blade eye-slicer gadget.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:10:35 -- 0.2 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

After that they took the sucker and the bottom part off and now here's Gwen's eye zoomed in with an aiming reticle for the laser.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:10:52 -- 0.3 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

Ugh -- he's folded the flap away, now, and you can see that the insides of Gwen's cornea are not as smooth and shiny as the outsides.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:11:04 -- 0.2 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

You can see the flap really well here. Lasering
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:11:17 -- 0.2 sec, f/3.8.  No Flash, Compulsory.3264x2448 Large -- Medium

More lasering.
Laser Movie movie
The laser lasted awhile -- I suspect that this is because our prescriptions were pretty strong.
Flap Smoothing movie
Smoothing the flap back into place. This has *got* to be done right.
movie
A YouTubed version of an 8-minute video of Gwen getting her eyes lasered. The end is cut a bit short because I had to go get prepped for my run.
Click the "movie" above the youtube bit for a QuickTime version, but be warned that the QT version is 85 megabytes.
E8800, 2008:06:20 13:48:39 -- 10/601 sec, f/2.8.  Flash, Auto, Red-Eye Reduce.3264x2448 RED-EYE. Large -- Medium

A shot that Gwen managed to take with me on the table right after hers was over! All in all, it's taken me quite a bit longer to make this webpage than it took for them to laser the both of us.