[stylist] Blindness and photography

[BDM]

Since you asked about opinions Robert :). In response to someones 
recent post. I too am not a nay sayer, optimistically an optimist :), 
and also an encourager and not complainer by nature. So  the 
following comment is meant to be taken in that light. I don't quite 
understand the point of it being a mockery as a blind photographer, 
professional or just someone clicking pics for a visual journal of 
their own or loved one's lives. I agree with the breaking news of 
fried potatoes thing, that's just folks exposing a lack of mature 
insight, or being able to actually think things passed the shallow 
threshold of being amazed we breathe on our own. But I'm not getting 
the mockery thing or how could taking pics as a blind person really 
make us happy or be enjoyable. I think it is a matter of the 
perspective of the reasons "why" we do what we do. If I can take a 
picture and regardless if I'm blind or not, it makes one say, "What a 
cool shot that is, I've been to that place?" Or "That is just a cool 
sunset shot", and they enjoy it,  isn't  that what it is about? I 
write  songs and perform them and yes I do like the process, I enjoy 
it for what it is, but what makes me write is to  try to evoke some 
emotion in a listener, take them on a mini-emotional trip. I know 
there are people who sing better, play better, write 
better,  entertain better, just like they might center an object 
in  a pic or what not better but that's OK with me. My drive as a 
writer is to let others enjoy or feel. They show their appreciation 
and I enjoy that in return. It isn't about my playing, writing or 
singing, its what it evokes from others that matters to me and drives 
me to continue.  My wife is no photographer she basically puts 
whatever she's taking a picture of  in the center of the screen and, 
bam, clicks it and its done. Yet she got really good composition 
comments  from a professional photographer on one of her pics. She 
doesn't even know what that is.
And I don't wish to beat this example to the ground as I'm sure we've 
all heard it a thousand times if  even once,  but it is relevant . 
The deaf musician who plays xylophone or whatever it is, in an 
orchestra. She in no way has the same enjoyment perspective as we do, 
but she enjoys it in her own way that matters to her and she's living 
the dream she wants regardless. Isn't that what it is all about? 
Probably more  applicable are blind web designers, beats me how they 
do it but they are out there, I can't do it, but that isn't my dream 
either. If we  wish to be seen as just people minus a label, we need 
to be secure in ourselves enough to allow us to be who we are  as 
well. There is much more to the picture than  pressing a button, 
there's the  people you get to meet while taking it, there is the 
vacation you are on, the triple story house of cards that is about to 
blow over if a flea jumps on it before you can snap its proof of 
existence... whatever. People want to do things because of the 
feeling it gives them, how are we to question the  origin of that 
feeling in whatever they decide to use as a vehicle. *smile*.

Brad