[stylist] Blindness and photography

[Donna Hill]

Brad, well put and many excellent points.
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On 8/9/2010 12:55 PM, BDM wrote:
> 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
>
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