It was a beautiful day when Lyle and I
drove to Lake Louise with my sister, Jill. The view of the lake with the
mountains in the background is quite spectacular. Of course, these days my
vision of the lake is restricted to memories of days when I could see, but even
this didn’t detract from our enjoyment of the afternoon.
I have been having a little trouble with my
knee so for some of the time I sat on a bench while Lyle and Jill walked the
lakeside trail. It was so relaxing sitting in the sunshine and listening to the
cacophony of voices as tourists from nearly every part of the globe passed by
my spot on the bench. It was hard to imagine that there were so many, many
different languages being spoken. It seemed to me that English was almost in
the minority.
When Lyle and Jill came back from their
walk, Jill wanted me to take her picture.
Lyle offered to do this, but Jill was fairly insistent that I be the one
to take the shot. She said, “It’s always more exciting when you take the
pictures, Sue. I never know what you are going to get in the frame! “
So,
I laid my white cane on the bench and held the phone as Jill instructed. “It’s easy ,“
she said. “You just press on this
part of the screen and keep your fingers away from the top edge where the
camera is.” Then you can point the phone
towards my voice.”
I did as she directed, but I guess I had a
bit of a heavy hand. With my first attempt I took one hundred pictures. Jill
was quite surprised, but patiently went through the instructions again. This time I managed an almost perfect shot. I
have added it to this post. The picture
shows Lyle and Jill standing side by side with the lake and mountain in the
background. Apparently the picture is almost perfectly framed.
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| Sue's photo of Jill and Lyle |
Jill said, “That’s amazing! You take pictures equally as well as someone
who can see! Well, perhaps not all the time, but sometimes even better.”
I
must admit that I enjoyed this photography experience. I also wondered what the
passers by were thinking as I put my white cane to the side and moved forward
to hold and aim the little camera. The experience reminded me of the photography
display, Sight Unseen, at the Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. It was
fun to do something different even if I couldn’t see the results.
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