I’ve had pretty bad vision since childhood. Left uncorrected and I cannot see the world. I took these shots hoping to catch something cool but they didn’t come out so great according to the rules. Yet as I looked at them, tbh, this is kind what the world looks like without uncorrected vision, and there’s still a story behind told.
It’s a world I know very well and one that I’ve still have had to find beauty in, and if anything, listen and feel deeper to find the meaning within the story.
soul enjoy the view as do I and take a little trip here…
I took this photo bc I loved seeing “100% Hawaiian” on the truck and the line was epic. You can barely tell, but the guy in the camo is yawning, the woman behind him looks hangry, and the hand on the chin of the woman in the next place of the line behind the hangry one depicts studying a menu quite intently.
This image is a sharp contrast of the previous in that for this vegan foodtruck, there was no line, just a single soul placing an order. Technically, it was two because I had just ordered but I want to call out the lights here. Without any type of corrected vision device, lights are super blurry, liney, streaky, larger than life, all over, any kine, just like this.
This isn’t as blurry but I share it because this is what it’s like trying to look at a face that’s further than half a foot away.
That’s right, I can’t see shit.
Detail, you say?
What is that, I ask.
I’m so used to walking and wandering in blurred darkness, just seeing the outline of shapes as a guide, I don’t think twice about it. I can’t imagine what it’s like for those who are completely blind and all the props to them.
And those folks out there who complain about their 20/40 - 20/100 vision, for context, I’m at 20/2400 in one eye and slightly better at 20/2200 in the other.
soul respectfully, you can just shut the f*ck up about your terrible vision. Go ham on something else. Just not that.
This is not blurry, at least at first glance. But look closer and you’ll find that it’s also not the sharpest image. Because it wasn’t super crisp and sharp, I felt bad even though the story told here was moving as it featured:
The colors of the sunset in the sky above the ocean
A young couple watching said colors in the sky
A gentleman wearing the word ‘ohana across his back. And if you look close, you’ll see Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, a movie where many outside of Hawai‘i learned about the meaning behind such a powerful word.
And last but not least, the sign detailing all that’s prohibited
soul methinks that by sharing these images, I’m going against the grain of what could be considered prohibited in photography by embracing the grain (within the shots) and accepting my limited vision and scope of the Universe as it is. Perhaps in so doing, that expands the view.
Art should be liberated. If it’s not, that’s limiting.
And in a Universe that’s full of abundance, doesn’t that break a rule of natural law? I don’t things like that ever work out, not for very long at least.
With that, thanks for being out there soul adventurers. Until the next blurry trip…
Have a good one!