I live in Leicester, currently single but attached to a guide dog!

I have macular degeneration, and infantile nystagmus and cataract, if someone as old and gnarled as I am can have anything infantile. I am registered as blind, but see a bit like a video recorder that's gone slightly off channel.

It was the onset of the MD that precipitated me into photography. I figured that the camera could help me see, record my world as it is now and give me a creative outlet.

MD messes up your central, detailed vision, so it makes it hard to read print, recognise faces and keep any kind of sensible track of colours, so is not at all the photographer's best asset. But when I have taken my shots, I can see them on a large monitor, where the colours are a lot better than they are in real life, and my street shots make the faces of people pretty clear.

Themes that emerge are life on and around the river and the canal, which is a few hundred yards from where I live, trees, flowers, skies, street scenes, historic buildings and statues (Leicester goes back at least 3,000 years that I know of, so there is plenty of scope there), and things that are problematic for people with disabilities, such as clutter and street signs that are impossible normally for someone like me to read.

I don't currently have any special equipment to help with my photography. I started off experimenting with disposable film cameras, and still use those quite a lot, and I also have a pocket camcorder, which is surprisingly versatile. None of these devices has a viewfinder that's usable for me, so I don't worry about the viewfinder. Educated guesswork is a wonderful thing!

his is not enough gear for what I want to do any longer, so even a cheap smartphone or a basic digital camera is going to be an advance at this point. Watch this space for some more adventurous photography, I hope.

Meanwhile I have some slide shows on Youtube.

www.youtube.com/visigoth999/videos

And, what possessed me I don't know, but I decided to compile one of those 365 projects for the year 2014. The blog where this is in progress is here:-

sensoryphotography.blogspot.co.uk