d The Featured Photograph is a regular series on Blind Photographers. Members of the community are invited to write or record personal context for one of their images. Today’s image comes from Jim Adamson. This was literally the first ripe cherry tomato from a plant I grew in my front room (I don’t have...
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d The Featured Photograph is a regular series on Blind Photographers. Members of the community are invited to write or record personal context for one of their images. Today’s image comes from nightshooter09. This gentleman is a Junior Firefighter, in other words he is a firefighter in training. When I saw him close up...
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“I know I am new, but I feel like the whole world has opened up to me through this group and photography.” This came to BP’s inbox today form one of our members.  The photographer, bbrasley, has chronicled her transition into photography on her blog, Losing Vision Gaining Insight, in her post, Blind Photography....
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d The Featured Photograph is a regular series on Blind Photographers. Members of the community are invited to write or record personal context for one of their images. Today’s image comes from Mary Beth Griffo Rigby. My first attempt at digital photography was an assortment of family and puppy shots. What a strange hobby...
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d The Featured Photograph is a regular series on Blind Photographers. Members of the community are invited to write or record personal context for one of their images. Today’s image comes from Alex de Jong. phototalk: crossroads from lodro rigdzin on Vimeo. Share on Facebook
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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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Apple’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...
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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: “Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage “the eyes are the windows to the soul” as they explore vision...
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Scott Wyden Imagery has a nice post about “Being a color blind photographer“. It has its moments. I am not going lie and say I just get by because I don’t. I need help like other color blind photographers out there. In fact, when I was in college and taking the color course I...
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The BBC., via its BBC – Pods and Blogs, is again featuring the work of a blind photographer. The February 9, 2010, edition of this podcast talks with British photographer, Vince Thacker. Though accessibility should be incorporated into all websites, as usual on Pods and Blogs, it’s the things you do that are really...
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