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Check out the interview in BEHIND THE LENS, YOUR LENS

Craig Royal is an award winning visually impaired fine art photographer / digital artist from the Tampa Bay area. One of his photos was awarded the “Best in Show” at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Members’ Show recently. We talked with him about his work and his experiences.

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I was about to delete some apparently uninteresting video clips of my wanderings around the city, when I realised that they were full of people’s faces that were anything but uninteresting.

This has a special poignancy for me as someone with macular degeneration who cannot ordinarily recognise faces easily. Some of the pictures are appropriately out-of -focus and others have the effects of glare, which I deliberately haven’t altered. That’s pretty much how I’d see them, if I’d seen them.

These people most likely didn’t know I was filming them, and I didn’t realise it either until afterwards!

Once again, the camera lets me see things I wouldn’t otherwise see.

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Albany ARC holds summer transition program – WALB.com News – visually impaired students with ambitions. One aims to run her own photographic business. Trust me, somehwhere on this messy page, there is a video (Flash) and a text article.

Arts Victoria Funding – Blinkie Photography – tight arts funding jeopardises Andrew Follows’ exhibition.

Aurora: Local photographer sees through a different lens – Jim Braun Marfan’s Syndrome, which affects his eyes and many other things. Photography, however, gives him several benefits.

Authors@Google: Tony Deifell | Business Strategies 101 – Tony Deifell taught blind children photography, and learned what it means to see.

Blind Photographers on Facebook

Bllind Photography @ Losing Vision Gaining Insight – a feature on blindphotographers.org.

Capturing moments – a photography workshop in the Philippines included blind participants.

Field Test: Apple iPhone 4 Camera « The Phoblographer – some very strong features, but the iPhone 4 would not be everybody’s choice of primary camera.

Flickr: Help: Getty Images – your chance to have your images valued commercially.

Grants for Nonprofit Photography | eHow.com – USA sources of finance.

High Desert Sketches: Even Dust Devils Wear Prada In The Last Frontier – by George Covington, who is a photographer with about 10% normal vision. This is George in the day job, writing on this occasion about fashions.

In Blind Test iPhone 4 Camera Quality Bests All | AppCart – the 5 megapixel camera does well against several other phones and point-and-shoot cameras.

My world in Photography: By legally blind photographer Andrew Follows – My Nikon Life

New Book on Photography for the Web – SitePoint’s “Photography for the Web” looks really like a useful basic guide to the nuts and bolts of photography.

New photo of Eamon and myself – Blinkie Photography – Andrew Follows considers tha dvantages of manual camera settings.

New SeeAbility initiative encourages creativity (From Basingstoke Gazette) – project that encourages blind people to be creative inclues photography and other arts.
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One Day On Earth – The World’s Story is Yours to Tell – take part in a world-wide documentary project on 10/10/10

Photographers “Banned for Life” for Taking Photos in Public Parking Lot » Photography Bay – another confrontation between photographers and officers of the law, this time in Miami Florida. This is a situation, this article says, that is unfair to both parties. For an alternative view of photography in public places, visit
Here’s looking at you. ‘Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera’ at Tate Modern until 3 Oct – “There’s a moral blind spot at the heart of photography, writes Kerry William Purcell. It is a blind spot that was manifest in the recent outpouring of protestations and demonstrations concerning the possible criminalisation of street photography in London… ”

Some IPhone 4 Cameras Have Yellowing Problem – the iPhone 3 doesn’t have this. Maybe a white balance issue?

Top 10 iPhone photo apps | ZDNet – well, there are plenty of lists like this of iPhone apps, but this one was compiled on evidence of what apps photographers used when entering a competition.

Watch: Visually Impaired Photography Students at Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind | jacksonville.com – down-to-earth account of the way students were introduced to photography.

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Creative Work: Blind Photographers – Feminists With Disabilities -S. E. Smith appreciates the Blind Photographers site, not only for the images but also for the way members write about their work.

Ghana: Visually Impaired Benefits From Photography Training – allAfrica.com – visually impaired woman was one of the students on a recent course provided by Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP). The FFP is an art and media organization that seeks to empower the vulnerable in society.

Images Without Sight – this blog follows totally blind photographer Susan Gjolmesli as she participates in a photographic project organised by Tess McMillan.

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montgomery sideways – a blind stay-at-home Dad who has a lot to say about the state of the roads in his area and takes a still and a video camera with him at all times to record his findings.

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My story – nickbirchak’s Photos- powered by SmugMug – Nick is legally blind, and a course in black and white photography at college set him off on the royal road to photography.

Quiet Light Photography – Drew Bedo is an artist who works in large photographic formats. He is legally blind, having severely degraded vision in one eye only. Also visit
Legal blindness doesn’t stop photographer | Ultimate Fort Bend

Seeing Blind – Cyndy Otty has achromatopsia. She tries to explain how she sees, and illustrates this with her own photographs.

see(more) photography blog – several posts about guide dogs and how the author, Laura Landry, sees her world through the lens. One of her photos has been chosen to be part of the American Printing House exhibition later this year.
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It’s my pleasure to launch Blind With Camera School of Photography
(
www.blindwithcameraschool.org< a
virtual school with step-by-step tutorials for the visually impaired to get
started with photography and provide guidance to sighted photographer for
starting photographic workshops with local visually impaired people. This
website is in compliance with accessibility standard for the visually impaired.

This alternative approach along with physical workshops & training sessions
conducted by Blind With Camera will widen and deepen the creative and social
deliverable, enriching the blind and the sighted community, and inspire social
change.

In 2010, Blind With Camera project is going strong. To know about our recent
Pinhole workshops and coming exhibitions click on links below -
http://blindwithcamera.org/events-news/

To view new works click below
http://blindwithcamera.org/category/photo-gallery/

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Blind Insight LLC – a photography company funded in Seattle by William Madison, who is legally blind. He knows all about the possible physical and emotional effort involved in being a blind photographer. He will be exhibiting at theMaison Michel (1928 43rd Avenue E., Washington) this month. See
Madison Park Blogger: August Happenings for more details.

Blind photography, are you game? » Sumter Camera Club – at this event, participants will go off with a non-digital (yes, film!) disposable camera, and will see what they get without all their digital sophistications. Not sure this qualifies as blind photography, guys, unless I’m missing something.

Blinkie Photography – Andrew Follows’ new web site.

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Camera Plus Pro for iPhone Price Drops, Adds More Features « The Phoblographer – now 99 cents.

Fun With Photography « Losing Vision Gaining Insight – getting enjoyment from photography.

Photo Competition. | Blinkie Photography – post your reflective photo entry.

[Virtual School of Photography – Partho Bhowmick – announcement of the
Blind With Camera Photography School

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First Crop

This was literally the first ripe cherry tomato from a plant I grew in my front room (I don’t have a greenhouse so had to do it indoors). I love the smell of these – reminds me of walking into my uncle’s greenhouse when I was a little kid.

Around the same time as this was growing I was working through the basic tutorials on strobist.com, so this gave me a perfect opportunity to practice with flashes, & gels. The green gel on the flash in the background is an attempt to really bring out the red of the fruit, working on the theory of complimentary colours learnt in art classes at night school – I didn’t try any other colours but I’m fairly confident they wouldn’t have been an improvement.

Composition-wise if I took this again I’d like to drop the far edge of the tile it’s sitting on just a touch, but other than that I’m happy with it, and I’m pretty pleased I’ve got a permanent reminder of a successful effort at being green fingered (especially as not everything I’ve grown has actually lived long enough to produce food…)

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Hats off to firefighters

This gentleman is a Junior Firefighter, in other words he is a firefighter in training. When I saw him close up and how young he actually is – selling flowers to raise funds for MY local fire department – I was totally humbled that a young man like this might risk his life one day to save someone such as myself.

So there you have it: Hats off to firefighters (from my on-going “Hats Off Series”/set.)

By the way, our son works with the firefighters and police as an EMT through Southwest EMS. For the service they provide each of us – often taken for granted, my hat’s off to them ALL.

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soft light crocus

“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. bbrasley write about how this community helped her find a new way to see the world:

With the inspiration of the blindphotographers website, I began to create a digital world where I can see the beauty that I can no longer see in the “real” natural world.

bbrasley goes on to show an example of how she uses Photoshop to find the real image buried in her pictures. The photo about, soft light crocus, was lost in the glare and noise  when she snapped the original digital negative.  Bringing that file into Photoshop and onto her large screen monitor, bbrasley was able to find this wonderful nugget.

Thanks for sharing your story, bbrasley! Please go on to read about Blind Photography at Losing Vision Gaining Insight.

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