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Seeing Beyond Sight Photo Challenge by Tobias Sinclair
December 13th, 2007 9:38 PM
Wow. This was pretty awesome. I did this at night, so I was more than a bit frightened. I walked around my property and surprisingly did not injure myself. The pic is of the bag I put over my head. >:3
Walking around in the snow not knowing where I'm at is actually surprisingly fun. I kind of had an idea of what the area was like, but I dug the idea of using the camera as my eyes, but only seeing what I saw at a later time. I did get some cool shots, and I'll post them soon, I'm just not really sure where or how, coz I'm a bit of a n00b.
I'm probably going to try this task a few more times in a more public setting, preferably with a pair of sunglasses with pieces of paper taped into the lenses so I can't see through them. Even if I don't move around that much, I like relying on every other sense other than sight. You hear stories of blind people relying on their other senses, and it causes these other senses to become magnified to compensate for the loss of another. This is something I would like to experience to a degree.
Walking around in the snow not knowing where I'm at is actually surprisingly fun. I kind of had an idea of what the area was like, but I dug the idea of using the camera as my eyes, but only seeing what I saw at a later time. I did get some cool shots, and I'll post them soon, I'm just not really sure where or how, coz I'm a bit of a n00b.
I'm probably going to try this task a few more times in a more public setting, preferably with a pair of sunglasses with pieces of paper taped into the lenses so I can't see through them. Even if I don't move around that much, I like relying on every other sense other than sight. You hear stories of blind people relying on their other senses, and it causes these other senses to become magnified to compensate for the loss of another. This is something I would like to experience to a degree.
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posted by adam. on December 14th, 2007 7:19 AM
yeah, i'd like to know what happened.
kudos on actually doing this though!
posted by Tobias Sinclair on December 14th, 2007 8:42 AM
Will do, where can I post some pics?
posted by Tobias Sinclair on December 14th, 2007 8:42 AM
Haha, if you can't tell, I'm pretty new.
posted by adam. on December 14th, 2007 9:13 AM
just edit the task, and at the bottom theres a little thing to upload pictures. just careful you don't move them to media folder!
welcome to the game, i'm new too :)
posted by susy derkins on December 14th, 2007 11:21 AM
A chipotle bag as a mask must have its own interesting story :)
I´ll wait for the pictures to vote.
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