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As a blind photographer, Gary Williamson is used to hearing the obvious questions. "People always laugh, you know, 'Oh Gary's blind' [...] people can't fathom that," he says.

One of my obvious questions was: 'How do you know when you've taken a good photo?' Cheerfully explaining the technicalities of his editing process, which includes using magnification and zooming in on his iPad , he then gave me what was, in essence, the real answer.

"Every photographer will tell you, there's a certain feeling that you felt everything was right at that moment. When you took that shot and just go, 'I think this might be right'," he says.

A youth worker and a registered blind photographer , Gary's chosen paths offer a hint of his optimism and ability to make good from a bad situati

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