Award winner for the Top 10 Vision Impaird Blogger for 2010

This award highlights the very best blogs about being vision impaired on the internet as determined by the internet community. With the growing prominence of the internet in today’s society, allowing for more people to have more access to information, the medical field is a very important niche. More and more people are trying to diagnose themselves, and although this tendency cannot be helped, the information they are using can definitely be ensured to be top notch. And so Medical Assistant Schools has provided the Top Blog Awards, not only to recognize those bloggers who are blogging with great content, but because we want to provide any information seeker with the best resources possible.

Awards candidates are selected using one main method:
- Audience nominations

After a list of candidates is compiled they are each scored by our panel of 5 judges. Each judge rates each blog across 20 different attributes providing it with a ‘subjective’ score. These ratings are combined into an aggregate, and the aggregates of the 5 judges are averaged to give the blog its final rating.

The ratings are then compared, and awards are given out to blogs in the 99% percentile (meaning the top 1% of blogs receive awards).

Very surprised and honoured to be selected a winner for 2010.

Well after a few months of havving my new Nikon Macro 85 lens, I feel I am up to the stage now of showing of what I have captured. I have 2 Orchids, one yellow and one Pink. To my eyes they look small but wonderful. With my Macros lens, they now have a wow factor which is amazing for me to see. Looking at it’s beautifull colours and the lines and textures of the flowers is magic. The Nikon Macro 85 bring in to me a world that I never saw before as  embrase and take as much as I can .

Nikon Macro 85 Photo of a Pink Australian Orchid

Nikon Macro 85 Australian Yellow Orchid

Nikon Macro 85 Australian Pink Orchid

What a magic 2 days down the beautiful coastline of western Victoria. A 3 hour drive west of Melbouren, Andrew and a fellow photographer capture some wonders and beuti of the coast. With it’s rough seas and sandstone cliffs they captured some magical photographs as the sun sets west over the ocean.

The first day they traveled to Point Cambell, where along the coast there are many places to stop and admire the coastline and it’s rough shores. Stopping at Gibsons Steps, and Bay of Islands where they got there in the nick of time to capture the sun setting over the ocean. The 2nd day was very cold and wet but they ventured out to Hopkins falls, where for the first time in many months the water was gushing over, giving the visitors a great spacktacual on the power of water and what it can provide. As the day wore on, it was decided to pack it in and head back to Melbourne as the rain was not letting up.

They are hoping to head back down the coast in spring time, as the weather will be more settled.

Gibson Steps

Bay of Islands

Hopkins falls at its best in months

As the sun sets in Little River, the cows are having there last bite before knight fall.

Always keep an eye on your Camera Bag.

I was travlling down to the west coast of Victoria this week for a 2 day photo shoot of the coastline with some friends. We stoped in Colac, when I got a phone call from the Diamond Creek Police.

My camera bag was some how left out of the car in a service station in Greensborough. Work men had found my camera bag and handed it into the police. We were 2 hours out of Melbourne and I called my photographer student, who is working with me, if he could pick up my gear from the police as he was coming down later on. He was very kind and picked up my bag and brought it down the coast for me. It is great to know that there is still wonderful honest people in this world.

It put a dampner on things for awhile but ended up all good and very releaved and proud of the workmen who handed my gear into the police.;)

The police I must say were sensational at Diamond Creek and at Camper Down Stations as they were a little miffed on a blind photography, as many sighted people are.

Two the workmen who handed it my gear I deeply thank you so much for your great honesty.

A quote I discovered while researching on photography for vision impaird photographers.

“When we think of sight, we think of light and when we think of a blind, we think of darkness. The partition between light and darkness is natural as the polarity between people with sight and people with blindness is deeply rooted in our historical, psychological and sociological influences. Our cultural emphasis on eye centeredness for interpretation of knowledge, truth and reality make it difficult for us to imagine living without sight.”

“Photography by the visually impaired is in the remotest of our imagination and most of us are unaware that they can take pictures and also they can be trained in photography like the sighted people.”

This week (August 5th) Andrew gave a presentation in Hepburn Springs to 80 Arts teachers and Managers from Gordon TAFE Colleges Centre for Creative Vision from around Victoria. The talk was about his photography, what it means to him, where he is heading with his photography and over comeing his vision impairment in this area of the arts. Andrew spoke for 45 minutes on what he has achieved in such a short space of time. Andrew hopes he gave something to the conference so they can take back to their students to share that their are no boundaries when it comes to photography and to the visual arts. Well done.

It was a cold and wet day in the district. Taking photos and documenting, is one of Andrew’s passion in photography. Although not the best weather for this, on this day, Andrew ended up capturing some amazing images. Visiting Daylesford, Andrew went to the old  Convent which is now an Art Gallery centre. Standing outside he was showen reflectiveness coming from the  windows of the old Convent.