Adventure 
It may be of interest how and why a legally blind person with "less than twenty degrees of vision in the better eye [the legal definition of my disability]" would take photographs. Following my vision loss, it took some time to discover that I was still able to use a camera. My frustration following sight loss is that I do not see the whole of anything. I cannot appreciate the overall composition of a painting; likewise, I cannot find the action in a film if I happen to be looking at the "wrong" part of the screen at the precise moment something happens elsewhere in the frame. When I picked up a camera, I discovered that I could use the pin hole [or tunnel] vision remaining in my left eye to "aim" the camera in the direction other people "look." The real advantage to photography for someone with vision like mine, however, is in the developed prints. I can take my time slowly scanning the entire flat image and actually see better, in the photograph, where I was than when I was standing there, taking the picture, the reverse of what things are like for someone with "normal" vision. This happens because flat photographs are stable; the image doesn't move and shift as it does in "real life." This is how I traveled alone to South East Asia in 1998. I lived to tell about it with a portfolio of photographs.
In 2001, I bought my first digital camera, and I upgraded in 2005. I can't see what I'm shooting, but my art training takes over when I crop with Adobe Photoshop. One can take the eyesight from an artist, but not the predominantly visual way in which one thinks. May you enjoy the result.


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  California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and New Mexico



   Hawai'i



  Asia  

  Europe