Being Blind
Crossing the Street
Crossing the street is serious business. I have a rigor a discipline that keeps me safe and keeps me alive. Sighted people are so carefree so careless, jaywalking, cutting corners, crossing against the signal. I don’t have that luxury, my envelope of certainty isn’t that big. My rule of thumb is never trust a […]
Coke Bottle Bottoms
WARNING, this content may be misconstrued by some readers. The implication being I can see more than I can actually see. The ability to compose a picture has no relationship to how much of the content of the picture can be seen. Photography is an important technical accommodation used to give […]
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do It Better :-)
I regularly receive the comment, “I didn’t know you were blind!” I am what they call “high functioning”, which has always pissed me off. High functioning is a fancy way of saying I’m not blind, or I’m not blind enough. Lets stick purely with the facts, I am blind; yes I still have some […]
