When I was learning how to take pictures, they taught us how to recognize what you are shooting. When people are sitting down, you point the camera down because they are seated and if they are standing up, you hold it up, not too close to their face, but close enough to get their whole picture.  That's how I fell in love with the camera. Photography changed my life in a big way. Until then, I didn't know that blind people could take pictures.

Pictures help me express how I think of things. Most things are are different for me. I don't look at someone and think, "Oh, they're fat, or they're overweight." I don't judge people by the color of their skin, I just talk to them.

Once I was on a city bus and this man sat down next to me. He was talking to me and telling me about the time his face was disfigured in a burn accident. I was looking at his face and I couldn't see the burns other people could. Some people sitting across from us began laughing. He got mad because they were laughing at us and I thought, "Why does that matter ? So what if he's different from everybody else? He's special just like God made everybody else."

I don't put makeup on to make myself beautiful. I'm just beautiful the way God made me. I don't need to be all dressed up just to make myself stand out. I make sure that my clothes are pretty and well presented, but not over-presented. I'm just me. I have no understanding of why you have to be overly fancy or wear all these dress-up clothes just for somebody to notice you.  People notice me enough because I'm legally blind. I can go out, cross the street, catch a bus and take the bus to work. People notice me because they are basically trying to figure out how I can do all that.

I think that there is a  time when you dress up for special occasions and there is a time that you can just be yourself. Your prom, your graduation, when you get married, that's special and you should dress up, but every other day, you're special just the way you are.