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		<title>Tim on Huffington Post!</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How Blind Photographers Like Chris Holmes Are Overcoming The Odds To Produce Stunning Image&#8221; came out on Tuesday. The article quotes me: &#8220;Some blind people have absolutely no sight, but many are able to perceive some visual information. I use my limited sight to build a mental image before I use the camera, a process I call stitching. Pretty neat! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Me</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me, a photo by Oberazzi on Flickr. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Slashdot, Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind: The Tacit, a wrist-mounted sonar device with haptic feedback, is like strapping a bat to your wrist to help you see. It makes use of two sonar ping sensors to measure the distance to the nearest obstacle. The relative distance to an object is then fed back to the user using two servos which apply pressure to the back of the wrist.&#8221; &#160; If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot First, Focus Later</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new company may have solved one of my biggest challenges as a visually-impaired photographer. Manual focus is out of the question for me. Automatic focus is a gamble as it often picks the wrong subject to focus on. I have too many shots that have the background in sharp focus while the subject is just a blur. &#160; Lytro’s Camera Lets You Shoot First and Focus Later (www.nytimes.com): The company’s technology allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it is taken. Since I do so much of my process on the computer already, with the big monitor and indirect lighting, adding focusing to the post-processing makes sense to me. I can fund a good shot, estimate reasonable composition and lighting and take some pictures with the camera with this set up, knowing I can sort out correct focal points later.  Hmmm&#8230; If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Ready, Set, Roll</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ready, Set, Roll, a photo by Oberazzi on Flickr. A couple months back, I went to see some roller derby. Fun! I have finally updated and sorted out Lightroom and have begun editing the photos. Here&#8217;s a taste! &#160; If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Janela Da Alma: Blind Photography Documentary</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/03/a-janela-da-alma-blind-photography-documentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a 2001 Brazilian movie, A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul), about blind photographers. The New York Times has a review of the movie. From the NY Times: &#8220;Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage &#8220;the eyes are the windows to the soul&#8221; as they explore vision and perception in their 2002 documentary A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul). Beginning with an interview with Brazilian jazz musician Hermeto Pascoal, Carvalho and Jardim attempt to make sense of how the musician perceives his world with a pair of impaired eyes that appear to simultaneously look in different directions. From there, the Brazilian co-directors interview a number of famous subjects with varying degrees of ocular health, ranging from the non-vision impaired director Wim Wenders to blind photographer Evgen Bavcar, while both the filmmakers and the interview subjects ponder how their lives and existences would be different had their abilities or inabilities to see the world around them been different. Released in Brazil in the summer of 2002 to mixed reviews, A Janela Da Alma was screened at a number of film festivals around the world in late 2002 into early 2003. ~ Ryan [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Moblie Web Zoom</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/03/call-for-moblie-web-zoom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not understand something about the mobile web. The &#8216;mobile web&#8217; entails all the sites made for smart phones and other mobile devices. Despite being designed for small screens, most mobile site disable the best feature on mobile browsers, the pinch zoom. This makes no sense to me. How could this benefit mobile web users in any way? Taking away features is not a great idea to begin with, so removing the capacity to zoom in on small screen is simply foolish. Instead of disabling zoom, mobile web sites (and mobile browsers) ought to be looking into text zoom. The iPhone&#8217;s default zoom, like that in most browsers, is a full zoom, acting like a magnifying glass. While useful, full zoom usually means a lot of panning left and right to read the text. Firefox (as well as Adobe Reader and mist eBook reader) offer a much better alternative, text zoom. Text zoom is not really a zoom. What happens when thus feature is used is that the text size is increases while keeping the page structure intact. In plain English, the page width and all images stay the same size. The end result is that a reader does [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad &amp; the Ultimate Low Vision Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/03/ipad-low-vision-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the iPad the ultimate accessible electronic accessory? Of course not, but it has some serious potential. Right away, iPad 1.0 already wins the accessible tech toy race hands down. With a few small changes, next year&#8217;s iPad 2.0 could begin to render many low vision aids obsolete. Out of the gate, the iPad is sleek, light and simple with a large, color screen. Apple appears to have left all the accessibility features of the iPhone in the iPad operating system, as has been documented elsewhere (see Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions and Hey Apple, What About iPad’s Accessibility?). So the iPad starts out with full zoom, high-contrast mode and VoiceOver. But what more could it offer visually-impaired users? With its large LCD, Apple could raise the maximum zoom and font sizes. The iPhone has limits on how far it&#8217;s pinch zoom will go. The &#8216;Giant&#8217; font size on the iPhone does not live up to it&#8217;s name. Readers have commented on earlier posts with similar concerns on iPhone app font sizes. Apple has a chance to improve readability here with no cost to users or to themselves. iBooks looks beautiful, so the iPad will be a big player [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>WriteRoom: Accessible Writing App</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/03/writeroom-accessible-writing-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite app for writing emails and other documents on my Touch is WriteRoom. It it both accessible and versatile, though it is not free. Despite the rather hefty price tag at $4.99, it is well worth it. For me, accessibility is key and WriteRoom wins hands down here. Not only does it offer a widescreen mode, but a reverse pinch (the zoom gesture) takes the app to full screen mode, adding viable scree real estate. WriteRoom offers an inverse color scheme (shown in the screen shot below) with scalable fonts. My only gripe here is that the maximum font size ought to be larger. On top of accessibility, the app has both simplicity and versatility on it&#8217;s side. The interface is clean and intuitive. Documents can be backed up and accesses online ( and by a program on Mac computers). Files can also be sent to directly to the Mail app (a fairly standard feature). My only gripe here is that the name of the app is inserted into the subject line automatically. My gripes are quite minor in the face of WriteRoom simplicity, accessibility and versatility. If you write many emails or other documents on your iPhone [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the Blind</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/insights-nytimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired&#8217;s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. &#8220;‘Insights’ Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists&#8221; gives an nice overview of the exhibit and it artists. Now in its 20th year, “Insights” is the country’s pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally blind artists. What began as an event focused on works of purely tactile interest — just 13 the first year — has evolved into a show of some 120 pieces where the emphasis is on the visual, and on an interpretation of it more in line with the one Ms. Kitazawa had in mind. Featuring all genres of art, Insights puts serious though into what the exhibit really means, for art and for the blind. “The exhibition is framed to be about limits and what can be done within them,” said Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum, who was a juror for “Insights” this year. That thematic framing, he added, locates the show’s blind artists very much in the tradition of artists in general. “We all have limits of perception, and all artists work within that envelope.” Accompanying the article, &#8221; ‘Insights’ Showcases [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Abercrombie on the First Law Audiobooks</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/abercrombie-on-the-first-law-audiobooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged before about how much I enjoyed Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s books and about my quest to have them released as audio books (See Best Served Cold (&#38; Audible), The First Law Series Going Audible and Best Served Audible). Abercrombie reports today on his blog in &#8220;First Law Audiobooks&#8221; that his debut series is being recorded. So they&#8217;re currently recording the audiobooks of the First Law, due out in June as downloads, and I dropped into the studio on Monday to see how it was going. They&#8217;re unabridged, so it&#38;apos;s taking them sixteen full days of recording, and when I got there they were just starting on Before They Are Hanged. Abercrombie goes on to talk about how he felt about his visit to the studio during the recordings. Apparently, studios and narrators do not consult with the author over pronunciation and character voices. I am very surprised.  Authors are regularly consulted over film adaptations, so why not for audio editions? Either way, Abercrombie was pleased with the progress. I look forward to listening to them! Read more in First Law Audiobooks. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>An iPad Camera?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind Photographers has written already about iPhone photography ins Shooting the iPhone 3GS. What will the iPad bring to the table? Nothing yet, as the tablet, like its older sibling, the iPod Touch, lacks a camera.  However, hope is not lost. PCWorld reports that they are  Sleuthing for an iPad Camera. &#8220;General consensus is that there will be a camera in the iPad, but not in the first generation—a camera would be a great feature to roll out in version two, giving more people a reason to buy after all the early-adopters get theirs. Though that’s still just speculation, the iPad appears to be fully camera-ready even now, and there might even be time left for another announcement from The Steve.&#8221; Assuming that these rumors pan out, what will this mean for blind and visually impaired photographers? Simply put, the iPad will offer the single largest LCD for composing and reviewing shots available in digital photography. I struggle with my Nikon&#8217;s LCD to review and can barely see through the tiny viewfinder to compose shots. Until I upload images into Lightroom, much of my photography is little more than educated guesswork. An iPad-mounted camera opens up a world of opportunity [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>iPad &amp; the Advent of Accessible Photography Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible photography books (and magazines). I rarely read books about photography. The font is universally too small, the books too heavy and there are no audio editions. The iPad has the possibility of changing this. Blio is supposedly designed to enrich the e-reading experience with audio, video and web content. On a device like the iPad, with its large, high-resolution color screen, we could see the release of more photography-related media. With text-to-speech, we could even see the advent of accessible photography books and magazines.I can imagine looking at full-screen images while listening to the accompanying text. Not only would this a be a great format for re-releasing books by the masters, but this would also be a great format for every photographer with a story to tell. Scott Bourne has already expounded about the iPad’s potential as a digital portolio. On his Photofocus blog post, What [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>2010 InSights Art Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Printing House for the Blind has announced their Nineteenth Annual Juried Art Competition and Exhibition for Artists Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind. The exhibition, APH InSights 2010: Visions From the Mind, requires entries be submitted by April 1, 2010, for preschool through high school and April 15, 2010, for adults. Make Your Dreams Come True! Enter APH InSights 2010! The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) invites visually impaired and blind artists of all ages to submit artwork to APH InSights 2010! This art competition and exhibition is exclusively for blind artists and draws entries from across the U.S. and around the world. See APH Museum: Enter the InSights Art Competition for rules and forms. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Talk about Dark Light: Discussing Blind Phtography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I posted about A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. Well, that conversation has taken place. The Annenberg Space for Photography&#8217;s blog reports about how &#8220;Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography!&#8220;. The subject of the evening was a short film directed by our own Neil Leifer, co-produced by Neil and Corinne, and featuring Bruce Hall along with two other blind photographers (Pete Eckert and Henry Butler) called "Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers." The blog has a great series of photos from the event. There are tons of good links as well. Bruce Hall is one of the photographers feature in Dark Light. Connie, who is also visually impaired, is a writer and producer for television. You can learn more about the documentary on its Facebook page: Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. &#8220;The Annenberg Space for Photography is an entirely new cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography in an intimate environment.&#8221; Bruce Hall is a well known blind photographer. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2012/07/tim-on-huffington-post/"     class="crp_title">Tim on Huffington Post!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/06/shoot-first-focus-later/"     class="crp_title">Shoot First, Focus Later</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/on-slashdot-hand-mounted-sonar-for-the-blind/"     class="crp_title">On Slashdot: Hand-Mounted Sonar For the Blind</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/05/ready-set-roll/"     class="crp_title">Ready, Set, Roll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2011/08/me/"     class="crp_title">Me</a></li></ul></div>]]></description>
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