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		<title>iPhone as Accessible Pocket Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more, I am finding myself using my iPod Touch as a pocket watch. For those times my watch is not handy, but my iPod is (which is surprisingly often), I find that I turn to it to check to the time. The font is just large enough that I do not need to read it with glasses. At night, I used to have to lift my alarm clock up to my face to read the time. Yes, I should get a large print clock, but they do not have great alarm or radio settings. My iPod Touch, though, is usually recharging right next to the clock. It is smaller, unencumbered by wires and I can also check my email if I am unlikely to fall back asleep quickly. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. PS My iPod wallpaper is a photo I took of our dog, Hero, sitting on a large rock in a local dog park. She does not usually drool! If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing iPhone Time: The Digital Clock AppWeather Access on the iPhoneGiant Fonts for iPhone MailAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneAccessing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIME Magazine Photo Essay &#8211; Photos by Blind Photographers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME magazine is highlighting a new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside with a photo essay, Photos by Blind Photographers. TIME describes the exhibit: &#8220;A spectacular new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside raises extraordinary questions about the nature of sight.&#8221; Photographers include Bruce Hall, who is a fellow member of the Blind Photographers Flickr group. Another exhibited photographer is Gerardo Nigenda, a Mexican photographer whom I hope to interview for Bthe Blind Photographers web site. You can learn more about the exhibit, Sight Unseen, at its web site. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Blind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyBraving the Sight Unseen: Interviewed by Black Star RisingFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesSensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowFlickr: Blind Photographers]]></description>
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		<title>The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon&#8217;s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography, from May 15 to Sept. 6. From his earliest, sun-splashed pictures in 1944 to portraits in 2000 that convey his fashion fatigue, the I.C.P. exhibition is the largest survey of Avedon’s fashion work since the Metropolitan Museum show in 1978. The slidewhow offers full screen images with a pair of informative audio essays by the exhibit curators. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Audio Books &#8211; New York TimesLighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindSensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowTank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens BlogModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.com]]></description>
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		<title>tim on line — State of Things Picture of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my photos was named Listener Submitted Picture of the Week by a program on our local public radio station: The State of Things on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC. This makes a fifth pick for me by the State of Things. In case this image looks familiar, it ran in the Chapel Hill News a few weeks ago as I mentioned in tim in print &#124; Tap, Tap, Tap Dance. Other than this, I have no photo related news. I did not get an assignment last weekend. I left the camera in the bag, giving my trigger finger some rest. I hope that this will release some creative juices for my next photo opps. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:WUNC&#8217;s State of Things &#8211; Pic of the Week (again)tim in print &#124; Tap, Tap, ReduxWUNC&#8217;s State of Things &#8211; Pic&#8217;ed a Second TimeThe State of Things: Burning Hottim in print &#124; Tap, Tap, Tap Dance]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Things: Burning Hot</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/burning-hot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WUNC&#8217;s State of Things chose this photo, Burning Hot, as the  Listener Submitted Picture of the Week for the week of 3/16 &#8211; 3/21. I think that this might be my fourth go around. Thanks, SoT! PS You can catch the Stato of Things at lunchtime on WUNC in North Carolina or via their web site&#8217;s streaming audio. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:WUNC&#8217;s State of Things &#8211; Pic of the Week (again)tim on line — State of Things Picture of the WeekWUNC&#8217;s State of Things &#8211; Pic&#8217;ed a Second TimeHillsborough Handmade Parade: Blue HeronTogether]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Fonts for iPhone Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone Mail app offers an adjustable minimum font size. It is not obvious how to access this setting. Apple buried this feature in the Settings app and can not be accessed from the Mail app itself. From the home screen, tap on the Settings app. Then tap on the Mail, Contacts &#38; Calendars tab. From there you can selcet the font size. The options run from small to giant, though I do thot think that Apple uses the same dictionary that I do. Regardless, the size variation makes a significant difference in the readability of email messages. The settings also controls minimum font sizes in the Calendar and Contacts apps.  Multitouch zoom functions in Mail, so you can zoom in when the Giant font is not large enough. For, I also need to zoom in. Unfortunately, Calendar and Contacts do not allow zoom. None of these apps allow landscape mode either, which could also increase readability. As you can see with these two screen shots,small is much smaller than giant. You can also see that giant is already pretty small. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slideshow &#124; up in flames</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is s slideshow from my firefighter training shoot. Seven more images will be added over the next week. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:tim in print: Fighting Fireslideshow &#124; Summer Softball PlayoffsFighting Fire with Photographyslideshow &#124; my personal favoritesslideshow: Youth Triathlon]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Maps: Accessibility of the iPhone Maps App</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on a computer and on an iPhone. On a PC, the proper balance of Full page and text zoom can help, but there is no similar solution on the iPhone. As you can see here, no matter how much I zoom into Chapel Hill in the iPhone&#8217;s Maps app, the text size stays tiny. The screen stays uncluttered, but I am still lost. How could this be fixed? One option is to to allow for adjustable font sizes. If a cluttered map with overlapping text a serious issue, how about some kind of pop-up box when a street is tapped? There must be a creative solution out there. Google just needs to find and implement it. Until then, iPhone maps are just some pretty pictures for me. Hmmm&#8230; That last sentence gave me an idea for a workaround. Screenshots, where you take a picture of what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me. Moody.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in an odd humor this afternoon. I took my camera out, which I have not done in a while, to try and capture the mood, so to speak. As usual, it did not work out as planned. My tripod and light stand were in the parking lot at my wife&#8217;s work in the trunk of our car. The camera remote trigger is missing. But I persevered. I got one decent image before I surrendered. I used Lightroom&#8217;s Clarity control to generate these three versions. Which works for you. I had my Vivitar on a chair in front of me bouncing off a biege board. I used an optical trigger with an on-camer diffused sb400 at low power. Not a perfect setting, but wht can you do? The glasses are my thick low vision reading glasses and the wires are my headphones. I never go much of anywhere without either of them. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Mebane OuttakesSportsplex OuttakesCombine Line Jumptim&#8217;s portfolioMore Wildcat Outtakes]]></description>
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		<title>Insights 2009 Call For Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. &#8220;The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.&#8221; Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery&#8217;s &#8216;Art in City Hall&#8217; program. Artwork for consideration can include, but is not limited to: paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and mixed media pieces. Distinguished jurors will select work from all two and three-dimensional media except video. Touchable art is encouraged. Works will be selected on the basis of original concept, expressive use of media and artistic excellence. Learn more and find the artist application at the Insights 2009 exhibition page. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindEnter the APH InSights Art Competition2010 InSights Art CompetitionFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesCreative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception]]></description>
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		<title>Model-morphosis @ NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times blog,]]></description>
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		<title>No Access to the NPR iPhone App</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two best men at my wedding. Their tandem toast revolved around my relationship to BPR. Addiction may be the word they used. So, as I was browsing the iPhone app store on my iPod Touch, I could not resist testing out NPR Mobile when I ran across it. NPR Mobile is an unofficial app, put together by a volunteer and released gratis. From the web site: NPR Mobile 1.0 is an easy-to-use application that will help you find your favorite NPR programs and segments. I’ve found that with it, I am able to expose myself to additional NPR programming that my local station doesn’t carry. Often times, when I wake up in the morning, I half-hear a story on Morning Edition, and want to come back to it later in the day. With NPR Mobile, I’ve been able to do this, and hear the full story on my time. It does exactly what it is supposed to do and it does it with a simple elegance. But how does it look from a low vision perspective? Since I was curious about the accessibility of the app, I look a look at their sotry, Some Technology Leaves The Blind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestling in the Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 match in his weight class. Mock pinned down Sanderson&#8217;s Justin McElreath to win the 135 pound weight class. The image is still too dark for me, despite some work in LightRoom. You can see Corey&#8217;s face, despite the angling away, so it was a keeper. I submitted two other photos for consideration. This one features Chapel Hill High&#8217;s Joshua Craig wrestling Leesville Road&#8217;s Trevor Kamens in the championship match of his weight class. Craig took second place. The wrestlers are overexposed relative to the background and it is a bit grainy, but otherwise not too bad. In this last image, Devin Solow of Chapel Hill wrestles into third place in the 112 pound weight class. Solow beat Patrick Waivers of JH Rose in a 3-0 decision in the final match of the consolation bracket. The idea behind this was to capture the intensity of the moment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestling Outtakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 and one should come out tomorrow in the Chapel Hill News. The assignment was to shoot the Chapel Hill wrestlers at the Mideast Regionals. In particular, I was supposed to get a shot of Corey Mock, one of the team&#8217;s stars. But I have never been to a wrestling match, never mind a regional competition. What I know of wrestling comes from the occassional Olympic match and whatever high school wrestling has made it to the screen, big or small. Oops. Let&#8217;s skip over the problems of a legally blind guy getting around town on a weekend without his normal chauffeur. [Just thank George and Martha for me.] The lighting conditions were unpleasant with minimal fluorescents in a dark gym. Two of the referee tables had ghastly glowing panels in front. There were three mats laid side-by-side, so there were three matches going on at any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildcats v. Falcons: Cheering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While shooting the women&#8217;s basketball game last week (see Wildcats v. Falcons in the Paper), I took of few pictures of the cheerleading squads. Despite not having thrown enough light their way, several shots came out reasonably well. This one above is the best of the cheerleader series. It is popular on Flickr as well, though possibly not for the same reasons. I wish I had more separation in the top half, but the light works for the bottom havlf of the imae. Ther is good color contrast and vertical and horizontal lines that catch the eye. The dark uniforms do not stand out well in this shot against the dark panel on the wall. The cluttered backgroud does not help here either. I kept swiveling the light stand in the second half, hoping to get this shot right. It proved to difficult to adjust the lighting for the cheering squad in the stands and still have it back when the ball returned to the near half  of the court. I will return to this puzzle in a later post. This final image is my second favorite cheer photo. There is something about the Faclon squad&#8217;s unifrom that created some [...]]]></description>
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