Last weekend, the Chapel Hill News sent me to shoot a local family event. Carrboro Parks & Rec organizes an annual parent-child basketball skills contest. This year’s event took place last Saturday at a local middle school. The gum was a bit dark, but I brought some flashes and took...
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My local paper, theChapel Hill News, ran a very nicely done story, Through a lens darkly, about me a few weeks ago. The reported had done the interview a while ago, so I did not know when to expect it. The day it ran, I brought the paper in only to toss it...
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As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Championship, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slide show. The game was a doubleheader, so there was some decent light for the...
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Wired.com interviewed me for an article running now:  Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision.  The story features three of us from Blind Photographers, with interview material and photoss. From the article: “Dejong is part of an online community called Blind Photographers, where similarly handicapped shutterbugs share their work and photography tips....
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As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Playoffs, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slideshow.  The game was late, so there was too little light for my lens. I still...
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I had a nice selection of four shots in last week’s paper,  cCLIFF’S CARVES OUT A CHAMPIONSHIP. I had had a tough time shooting the previous week’s playoff game (see Summer Softball Playoffs) as the game started late. This time around, they played a double header and I had good tlight for the first...
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Is the iPad the ultimate accessible electronic accessory? Of course not, but it has some serious potential. Right away,...
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My new favorite app for writing emails and other documents on my Touch is WriteRoom. It it both...
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I have blogged before about how much I enjoyed Joe Abercrombie’s books and about my quest to have them...
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Blind Photographers has written already about iPhone photography ins Shooting the iPhone 3GS. What will the iPad bring to...
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Apple’s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for...
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Spotted on CNET, Ray Kurzweil tries to build a better e-reader. His latest project, Blio, is an effort...
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Despite Apple’s leading efforts in accessibility technology, I have always found iTunes extremely hard to use. Apple’s major...
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