[Journalists] Digital cameras?

[Cheryl Wade]

		Lori,

Thanks for your camera-related suggestions.

A few years ago, my photo editor (no longer with our company) gave me 
a camera when I went on vacation to Taiwan to visit a friend. He 
wanted me to capture photos as best I could, with the idea that here 
are the perceptions of a person who is blind. My friend couldn't 
abide all this, and railed about how terrible it was to make fun of 
me like that. I thought the whole thing was great fun, but I once 
tried to take a photo of a bunch of people performing some dance or 
song or something, and the photo was not useful. Which is not to say 
I didn't have some great laughs, but i stopped taking pictures 
because I wondered if maybe nothing would turn out. It's worse than 
the old days of typewriters, you know?

Now, I wish somebody would give me some informal training, just for 
fun, and i could see what happened. (Our photo department would 
never, never allow me to take a picture! LOL)

Keep in mind, this is all just fun stuff .

Cheryl Wade