“Blind to Windward”

“Blind to Windward” is a new photographic project that merges my love for sailing with the opportunity to promote the achievements of persons who are blind. 

SailBlind is an innovative program that provides blind and visually impaired persons with an opportunity to learn the art and science of sailing.  Blind adults and children can learn to sail through the adaptive methods developed by the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts (http://www.carroll.org/recreation/sailblind) and through the abilities of sighted sailors who volunteer as sailing guides.  Sailing sessions are conducted weekly for both recreation and racing sailors out of the facilities of the Courageous Sailing Center, Charlestown, sailing in Boston Harbor.  The Carroll Center Team took the Bonze Medal at the Blind Sailing World Championships last year in New Zealand. 

A manuscript is in preparation for submission to numerous periodicals.   I will be seeking gallery representation for the work.  Check back here for details.  For the complete series of images see my website, www.danielpowersphoto.com, portfolio “People and Faces”.

I am grateful to Arthur O’Neill, Vice-President and Director and founder of BlindSail, for his endorsement and active support of the project.

 

BLIND Sailors

I will be on the water in Boston Harbor photographing blind sailors from the Carroll Center for the Blind (http://www.carroll.org/recreation/sailblind).  Experienced sailors compete in a racing program in J/22 sailboats out of the facilities of the Courageous Sailing Center in Charlestown.  Photos to follow!

Special KIDS, Special PETS

 

So this is my latest endeavor, emergence onto the “Socially Aware Photography” scene.  I have started a project called, “Special KIDS, Special PETS”, that explores the…ummm…well, special relationship between children and animals with special needs.   For starters, I have developed a collaboration with WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION, INC (http://www.windrushfarm.org/)  ”… a non-profit, working horse farm that has been successfully helping children and adults with physical, emotional, and learning disabilities since 1964.”  You can see some intial photos on my website at http://www.danielpowersphoto.com.

GIVING UP MEDICINE for photography?

I am a PHYSICIAN, an internist.  This is who I am.  What I do.  But for the first time I find myself wondering what would [will] I do when medicine becomes too socialized here for me to stay in it any longer. 

So here is this DENTIST who is living his dream.  TALK ABOUT “SOCIALLY AWARE PHOTOGRAPHY”?   He lives in the Pacific Northwest and has travelled the world taking breath-taking images of people…of life.  Check out his website, see WOMEN EMPOWERED.  http://www.philborges.com/collections.html

?New Gallery Representation

Dorian Color Gallery (http://dorianlab.com/gallery.html).   We will be meeting at their kind request to explore exhibiting my photography in their gallery at 24 Mill Street, in Arlington Center, MA.  Dorian Color is a premier, professional lab and printing service.  Dorian Color is the preferred provider of photographic fulfillment services for The Boston Globe Store producing fine photographic prints from the Boston Globe staff photo archives.  Dorian Color has partnered with The Sports Museum in providing fine photographic prints from the Museum’s extensive archive of rare and historic sports images of Boston sports icons.

Morning Stroll

This serene morning scene was shot in Maryland. Great American Art sold a 20×30 edition. More images can be seen at http://danielpowersphoto.com/.

Hospice House Purchases Fine Art Photograph

Merrimack Valley Hospice purchases 15×30 edition of “6:35″ for their Hospice House in Haverhill, Massachusetts. http://www.merrimackvalleyhospice.org/mvhh/index.htm

Great American Art

Great American Art represents my photography and recently sold these two images, Serpentine(2009) and Pythagoras (2008) in 20×30.

These are works from the series, Skies in Motion. The images are captured in camera and are not digital art. Serpentine was photographed at the Biosphere in Oracle, Arizona. Pythagoras is the Stata Center at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts. You can see more of the series at http://danielpowersphoto.com/.

New Blogsite!

I have created a new site where I will be posting News and Happenings about my photography, http://danielpowersphoto.blogspot.com/.

Check it out!

New Client: Great American Art

Great American Art (http://greatamericanart.com/) has become a distributor of my photography.  Great American Art is an internet retail and corporate art design consulting firm producing art proposals for domestic and international clients.  Their recent proposal to the SEC for its Operations Center in Alexandria, Virginia, includes several pages of my work.