[stylist] Blindness and photography

[BDM]

Yep I agree. :) I am fortunate  that pre-blindness and post, I've 
always been concerned with my own thoughts and provings rather than others.

Brad

At 01:53 PM 8/9/2010, you wrote:
>Brad, well written! what you wrote, was in general what I was meaning of
>personal choice, doing it for me and not really caring how someone else
>thought about it. and as I say, I'm mature enough, comfortable in my
>blindness, that I don't need to prove anything to anyone.
>
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>Robert Leslie Newman
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>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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