[Journalists] Real journalists

[Cheryl Wade]

			Well, Annemarie ...

My photo editor wanted me to take pictures of my vacation for a piece 
titled something like " A blind woman's (distorted) view of Taiwan." 
But you have to understand -- I, as a congenitally blind person, 
never ever used a camera in my life. I had to remember about 
advancing the film every time I took a picture - that was hard. And I 
had received no training about how to coordinate my hand movements 
using the camera with the resulting image. (When you don't see at 
all, it's all about physics and fulcrums, in my opinion.)

Anyway, my friend, who is an American and who was working in Taiwan 
for a summer, thought what we were doing was disparaging and 
distasteful. So she was always telling me, like, "don't do that," and 
then she kept on saying that my picture wouldn't have anything  in it 
because of the way I positioned my camera. So, I gave up.

One other reason I gave up was that I wanted to just do sightseeing 
and not have to worry about the photos, since I wasn't getting any 
help from anybody, anyway.

At any rate, that's the whole sordid story! Guess I'd better change 
my (clear the tthroat) focus.

Cheryl