LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s Insights exhibit was featured recently in the New York Times. “‘Insights’ Showcases Blind and Visually Impaired Artists” 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...
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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. “General consensus is...
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About three and a half years ago, I started the Blind Photographers group on Flickr. I was curious to see if I was the only blind (or visually impaired) photographer around. I certainly was not alone. I asked “Is anyone out there?“. Within a short time, I had my answers.  Since then, membership in...
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Britain’s Victoria and Albert Museum ran a photography course for some of its visually impaired patrons. The museum has put together the results in a nice website: Photographs by Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. This is a collection of photographs taken by blind and partially sighted visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum during a...
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A year ago, a photo editor at the Chapel Hill News suggested I check out the Strobist blog. I want home that day and have been hooked since. David Hobby, the longtime newspaper photographer, has caused quite a stir in photographic circles with his guide to and thoughts on lighting. From What is Strobist?: This...
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I have been remiss in not blogging earlier about a great resource for blind photography, Vince’s Parallax. As Vince puts it: The pages referred to here are about blind photographers and their work, techniques that anyone could use to take photos, and ways of representing the finished images. Vince has done an amazing job of bringing...
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The Blind Photographers group on Flickr has its own blog, Best of Blind Photographers, now. The blog highlights a few of the best photos each week from our community of over one hundred blind and visually-impaired photographers. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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Following up on my Strobist-for-the-visually-impaired posts, Didacylos’ Strobe and the first update, I have received some great suggestions. The first suggestion is about using a portable DVD player as a tethered LCD. David Tejada discusses Proofing with portable DVD on his blog. This neatly finds the middle ground between the camera’s tiny screen and...
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A few days ago, I ran across sometihng called the Shorty Awards on Twitter. The seem to be a light-hearted way to leverage the TwitterVerse for a little fun. The Shorty Awards honor the world’s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st. How...
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Spotted on Slashdot: Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data. Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data from the shutter-to-think dept. conner_bw writes “In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Japan has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. Here’s the Japanese press release for...
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The Shared Visions International Art Exhibit shows the work of blind and visually impaired artists in Fullerton, California, each year. Sponsored by Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) and Foundation Fighting Blindness, this year’s exhibit features fellow blind photographer, Drew Bedo. The 4th annual Shared Visions ’08-’09 International Art Exhibit is open to the public in the...
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For some time now, I have been following the Strobist blog. David Hobby, the longtime newspaper photographer, has caused quite a stir in photographic circles with his guide to and thoughts on lighting. From What is Strobist?: This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your...
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Over the years, I have devoted considerable thought to how I see. Sometimes I spot things that no one around me does. Sometimes I can make out things further away than usual. At others, I mistake my wife for a hat. No, not exactly. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And...
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insightdiscover, from flickr, has brought together several videos into a playlist, worldwide photographers who have visual impairments, on YouTube. There are currently five videos. Since they come from everywhere, only two are in English. The other three are in Spanish, Chinese and what I think might be German. Here is a short video from...
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As part of Project BlindSighted on Blind Photographers, I have posted my enty on my photographic process. Hopefully this will prompt a discussion that will help me develop and improve how I shoot. I am re-posting it here: Project BlindSighted: tim o’brien I am no where near as organized or experienced as Lodro or Drew, but...
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