Just covering so many different angles of life that people are always going to be interested.
So I would continue taking them because there is interest and memories as well.
Taking a photo is a different expression.
I go to one spot and I take a picture and then I'm about to move and I'm like, I know I want this one.
I want this, I want this there. It's kind of like you're on a journey and it's quite an exciting one.
I find it really interesting when people talk about composition because I just do a lot of things naturally.
So I'm not always like, this must be here, this must be there. I just do stuff with the idea in my mind's eye that it will be fine. It will look good.
The ones that make sense make a mark. I just don't want to go around just snapping photos. I want them to mean something.
I don't want to go around just snapping photos. I don't want to go around just snapping photos. I want to go around just snapping photos.
Why do I do it? Because it's possible, you know?
It was more for a challenge because I did not think it was possible for blind people to actually take photos.
Beautiful view in it.
One of my tools when I started the training and it's still out today is my cane and also the fact that I have a dance background, so alignment to be aligned with the space.
I've taken a photo. I'm mostly concentrating on whether the camera is straight, you know, things like that.
You've just got that feel about the stuff that are around you. So the more you go around taking photos, you know, the more you can judge where things are.
I think I can pick up those kids. I can hear them.
I think I caught them.
Are they still good?
They're still down.
If I can vary from place to place, so if it's a light place, then things tend to be more bolder.
I'm not looking to see what's out there behind my camera, but I'm moving my body into the position that I want the picture to be in.
The tree is there and the lake is here.
So I want to capture a bit of the tree and some of the lake.
I want to capture a bit up.
The more steady this camera is, you get some fantastic photos when it's steady.
Even sometimes you could probably take a photo of a plate of food just by smelling it or even feeling the heat coming from it.
There's so many different ways you can take photos just by using the other senses.
I've got new energy, new battery. Look at this, so nice. Really good.
A lot of light there.
I get a buzz taking the photo because I know, even though I can't see it, someone else could describe the photo to me, so I still got the rest of my imagination to feel good about it.
I'd like to see these when I get back in.
They're all linked together, me, the music, and now the photography because I've only started learning photography a couple of years now, but it seemed like it was there all the time.
Music is a soothing thing. Music is universal. Music has no boundaries. It's right up there.
When music hits you, you feel no pain.
Music and photos are joined together. You can actually look at a photo and match a song to it. Every photo taken, there's some song somewhere in this world that can match that photo.
When I dance, my mind just goes into that moment, into the space I'm in and the music that's around me.
I go into my mind's eye, so I'm aware of the sounds, the energy, and then I am free to express myself fully.
The movement is engaging with people. I love it.
I like the concrete poetry and the things I write in words, whether it's a particular idea or just an email because I care about every word I write.
I've never been able to see any of this. I mean, I've never been able to see, so it's really, really strangely ironic that I do it.
It's because I know I can do it. That's the powerful thing about it for me.
I appreciate visual things even though I can't see them.
Music
Just so that people feel that they're a part of something, I think photography can be quite there.
You might not have sight for as long as you think you might be having it for, so it's good to help those around you because you might learn something.
Creativity is more powerful than we might even realize. It's a part of us. It's learning about us.
To be blind or to have gone blind is not the end. It could be possibly only the beginning for many people, especially with art because there's so much we can do as blind people.
With blindness, you first of all got to accept it, otherwise you can't move on. You probably end up trying harder than, or you could not try harder, you know?
But there's no special skills that come with it.
Photography is more than visual because every photo you look at is a story behind it.
But there's a reason. But there's a feeling behind a photo. So it's actually more than looking at it.
It's not just visual photos, it's more than that. Several things more than visual.
Yes.
