The Blind Photographers web site is now official! Visit Blind Photographers at its new home:blindphotographers.org. From there you can visit the two halves of the new BP site. The Blind Photographers Blog Our Photography At The Blind Photographers Blog, you will find musings, news and articles about blind photography. You can also see our ongoing projects. Currently,...
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A couple of Sundays ago, I had a spread in the Real Estate section of the local Chapel Hill News. As usual I had two days notice. The forecast was for rain, rain and more rain. I have never done any real estate photos before, so was not even sure how to light the...
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As I mentioned earlier, I had some Sportsplex Photos in the News. For the assignment, I submitted four more photos that did not make the cut. I liked this first shot a olt. It is a bit too artsy and dark, I think, for the paper. I had my light on a stand to camera...
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Being an avid news junkie and a fan of the New York Times, it was inevitable that I find the NYTimes iPhone app. I found the app a while ago and have been drafting a review.  From an accessibility point of view the app had little going for it. Since it was slow to...
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“Feed My Inbox is a very simple service that attempts to bridge the gap between feeds (RSS, XML, Atom) and email.” Once you tell Feed My Inbox to keep you up to date on a particular web site or blog, Feed My Inbox will email you each day if there is new content on...
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Spotted on Slashdot | Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight: “A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye. Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London’s Moorfield’s eye hospital. He says he can now follow white...
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The wrestling marathon that I blogged about last night in Wrestling Outtakes paid off. The best image from the last match I shot made it into this morning’s paper in black and white. The original color version is below. In this shot, Corey Mock, headed for a fourth straight state championship, dominates the championship...
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As I mentioned at the end of last week, I spent much of Saturday Pinning Down Some Wrestiling Images. After spending eight hours navigating brackets, changing batteries, squatting at mat edges and dealing with a hot, crowded gym, I came home with well over two hundred photos. Three were submitted to the photo editors...
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The brouhaha over the new Kindle’s text-to-speech function possibly violating copyright has really caught fire. The issue hit the papers as well as the blogosphere. The Wall Street Journal carried the sotry with New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir. Several fellow accessibility blogs have picked up the issue. The Talking Books Librarian...
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The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon’s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal...
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This morning, the Chapel Hill News published another of my photos. This shot is part of the story, Wildcats make the grade, from the basketball game shoot that I have previously mentioned. Here Wildcat Hannah Elledge (#12) goes up for a layup in the first half of the game. I had the flash, my...
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I am off to shoot hoops tomorrow. The Chapel Hill News has asked me to photograph the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High. I shot an ECH men’s b-ball game for the News just before Thanksgiving. Let’s see if I can learn from that experience to get some better shots....
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Check out the Game Faces Slideshow on the N&O Sports page! I spent the morning shooting all the pre-game festivities before today’s football game between UNC and NC State. Boy was it cold this morning! My chaffeur had the day off so I took at bus shortly after eight this morning. I has a quick...
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I just returned from shooting the pre-game festivities for the UNC-State game in Chapel Hill this morning. In a few hours, they should be up on the N&O’s website as a Game Faces slidshow on the Sports page. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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I am transition my website to a new host so I can integrate a WordPress blog. Bear with me while I figure this all out. I am also combining my Large Print Ideas and Oberazzi blogs here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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