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Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses composed together with the national flag of Georgia in one photoreal studio composition — the white field with its large red cross reaching all four edges and four small red bolnur-katskhuri crosses in the corners, filling the background in soft folds and lit from one side, with the sunglasses standing clear in front of it. Nobody wears, holds or uses it, and there are no words, letters, numerals or lettering of any kind anywhere in the frame.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at Poti Cathedral in Georgia — a wide, low, domed Neo-Byzantine cathedral on an open square, unmistakably a scaled copy of Hagia Sophia. Bright hard midday light on the pale walls, deep shadow inside the portal. Eye level, straight on, mid distance. Worshippers are going in and out, a woman is lighting a candle just inside the doorway, an old man on the step is selling candles from a tray, and a group of teenagers crosses the square behind at speed. The sunglasses rest on a stone ledge beside the portal, off to one side, worn by nobody and touched by nobody.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at the Port of Poti in Georgia — a working commercial seaport with gantry cranes over the quays, container stacks and a ship alongside. Night, the whole quay lit hard by orange sodium floodlights, black water beyond, mist in the light beams. An elevated view looking down over the quays, wide, the port dominating the frame. A gantry crane is lifting a container clear of a stack, a stevedore in a hi-vis coat is walking the quay edge with a torch, a line of lorries idles at the gate with headlights on, and two crew lean on a rail high on the ship. The sunglasses are small in frame, resting on a painted steel handrail in the foreground.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at Lake Paliastomi on the south-west edge of Poti, Georgia — a very large, very shallow lagoon with reed beds along the margin and a horizon of almost nothing but water and sky. Dawn, thick low mist lying on the water, the sun a pale disc just clearing the reeds. Close and intimate framing with a shallow depth of field. Two fishermen are pushing a flat-bottomed boat off the mud, one standing to pole it, a third is untangling net on the bank, and a heron lifts off through the mist behind them. The sunglasses sit mid-frame on the weathered wooden gunwale of a second boat drawn up on the bank, worn by no one.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed in Kolkheti National Park around Poti, Georgia — flooded alder and peat-bog wetland crossed by a timber boardwalk, reed channels and standing water among the trees. Golden hour going into dusk, warm low light raking through the trunks and lying on the still water, insects in the beams. Eye-level view along the boardwalk. Two birdwatchers have stopped with binoculars up, a ranger is walking back towards them with a clipboard, a child is leaning over the rail pointing at something in the water, and a flight of ducks comes in low over the reeds. The sunglasses rest on the timber handrail of the boardwalk in the middle distance, untouched.
Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses composed together with the national flag of Georgia in one photoreal studio composition — the white field with its large red cross reaching all four edges and four small red bolnur-katskhuri crosses in the corners, filling the background in soft folds and lit from one side, with the sunglasses standing clear in front of it. Nobody wears, holds or uses it, and there are no words, letters, numerals or lettering of any kind anywhere in the frame.

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses

Poti, Georgia  ·  Sunglasses

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses

<p>This is one continuous shield lens with no frame rim sitting where you look for a lob, which — sorry — really is the difference. It was rather hoping you might walk round Poti with it first, only if you have the time, and it will stop the moment you say the word.</p>

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Poti, Georgia
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Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at Poti Cathedral in Georgia — a wide, low, domed Neo-Byzantine cathedral on an open square, unmistakably a scaled copy of Hagia Sophia. Bright hard midday light on the pale walls, deep shadow inside the portal. Eye level, straight on, mid distance. Worshippers are going in and out, a woman is lighting a candle just inside the doorway, an old man on the step is selling candles from a tray, and a group of teenagers crosses the square behind at speed. The sunglasses rest on a stone ledge beside the portal, off to one side, worn by nobody and touched by nobody.
Stop one

Poti Cathedral

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses: Visible from every approach road — a convenient claim, so let us test it. It holds, and deliberately so: Niko Nikoladze, mayor of Poti from 1894 to 1912, had it placed at the centre of the town precisely so it could be seen from every side, to designs by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld in 1906-07. And the Hagia Sophia comparison is doing real work rather than flattery; look at the width of that dome against the absence of any bell tower. The Soviets closed it and converted it into a theatre in 1923. Returned to the Georgian Orthodox Church and reconsecrated in 2005. Objection withdrawn.

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Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at the Port of Poti in Georgia — a working commercial seaport with gantry cranes over the quays, container stacks and a ship alongside. Night, the whole quay lit hard by orange sodium floodlights, black water beyond, mist in the light beams. An elevated view looking down over the quays, wide, the port dominating the frame. A gantry crane is lifting a container clear of a stack, a stevedore in a hi-vis coat is walking the quay edge with a torch, a line of lorries idles at the gate with headlights on, and two crew lean on a rail high on the ship. The sunglasses are small in frame, resting on a painted steel handrail in the foreground.
Stop two

Poti Lighthouse

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses: When something is called the oldest, I want the receipt. Here it is, cast into the ironwork at the base: Easton, Amos & Sons, London, 1862. Not a legend — a maker's mark you can put your hand on. Cast there, shipped to Georgia in sections by steamer, bolted together on this spot, first lit in 1864 and in service ever since, which does make it the oldest surviving lighthouse in Georgia and one of the oldest on the Black Sea. I came prepared to argue and instead I am delighted. Bolted evidence. My favourite kind.

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Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed at Lake Paliastomi on the south-west edge of Poti, Georgia — a very large, very shallow lagoon with reed beds along the margin and a horizon of almost nothing but water and sky. Dawn, thick low mist lying on the water, the sun a pale disc just clearing the reeds. Close and intimate framing with a shallow depth of field. Two fishermen are pushing a flat-bottomed boat off the mud, one standing to pole it, a third is untangling net on the bank, and a heron lifts off through the mist behind them. The sunglasses sit mid-frame on the weathered wooden gunwale of a second boat drawn up on the bank, worn by no one.
Stop three

The central circular square and radial street plan of Poti

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses: A radial street plan in a Georgian town sounds like tour-guide embellishment until you stand in the ring and count the avenues opening at even intervals instead of meeting at right angles. It was drawn up in 1901 on the initiative of Niko Nikoladze, the same mayor, who engaged the architect Edmund Fryk to lay out the centre and design many of its public and private buildings; that network still determines the shape of the historic city. His administration also gave the town a theatre, two gymnasia, a power station and an oil refinery. One man, that list. I checked twice. It held.

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Beverly Heights cardio tennis classes — the Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses photographed in Kolkheti National Park around Poti, Georgia — flooded alder and peat-bog wetland crossed by a timber boardwalk, reed channels and standing water among the trees. Golden hour going into dusk, warm low light raking through the trunks and lying on the still water, insects in the beams. Eye-level view along the boardwalk. Two birdwatchers have stopped with binoculars up, a ranger is walking back towards them with a clipboard, a child is leaning over the rail pointing at something in the water, and a flight of ducks comes in low over the reeds. The sunglasses rest on the timber handrail of the boardwalk in the middle distance, untouched.
Stop four

Lake Paliastomi and the Kolkheti National Park shore

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses: Third-largest lake in Georgia — a ranking claim, and it stands. Paliastomi lies within Kolkheti National Park, which protects the Colchic wetlands at the mouth of the Rioni, and those wetlands sit on Georgia's tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage as the Colchic forests and wetlands of the eastern Black Sea coast. Tentative, note, not inscribed; the distinction matters and guides drop it constantly. And here is the fact that explains the entire city: this marshy delta is why Poti sits barely two metres above sea level, and why drainage and embankment works were central to Nikoladze's rebuilding. Geography first. Then architecture.

The Poti, Georgia track

Oakley Radar EV Path Shield Sunglasses

Written for this world alone.

<p>A single shield lens in the Path shape on the Radar EV frame — Oakley model OO9208, this pair in Polished White with a Prizm Road lens. One continuous piece across both eyes is the whole argument for a shield on a tennis court: there is no frame rim sitting in your upper field of view, which is exactly where a lob lives.

Prizm is Oakley's lens tint engineering rather than a coating, tuned to lift the contrast between colours that otherwise sit on top of each other.</p>
<p>The other thing worth knowing is what the earsocks and nose pieces are made of.

Oakley began as a company making motorcycle grips, and that same rubber compound is still what its earsocks and many of its nose pieces are made from — which is why a pair of these stays put in the third set instead of walking down your nose.

The company holds more than six hundred patents on eyewear, materials and performance gear, and a frame like this is where a good many of them ended up.</p>
<p>Poti is a serious argument for owning them.

It sits on the Black Sea at the edge of the Kolkheti wetlands, and the light here arrives twice — once out of a very wide sky and again off flat water and flat marsh, with nothing in between to stop it.

It is also a town that has never done anything by halves: its cathedral, built in 1906–07, is a deliberate imitation of Hagia Sophia, thrown up in reinforced concrete by a port city that wanted to look like an idea.

You will wear these everywhere from a hard court up the coast in Batumi to a morning session with the lagoon behind the fence — and by the way, keep them on afterwards if you go out into Kolkheti National Park, because out there there is genuinely nothing to stand between you and the glare.</p>
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