I ran across this site and found it to be fantastically entertaining...(though it doesn't take much to entertain me). I began to wonder, if I was blind, might I want someone to make sound recordings instead of photos to record my wedding day? I would probably have both. Sound for me and pictures for the sighted ones in my life.

I worked at a blind camp a couple of years ago and noticed that one person had a little voice recorder that he carried everywhere he went and he called it his camera. I thought it was cute and quite brilliant all at the same time. After all, how else does a blind person record memories?

Looking back to my childhood, we couldn't afford any sort of video or home movie cameras but my mother would frequently take the tape recorder and hide it while my sister and I played. My mom would have conversations with us kids and record us without us knowing. I still have some of those recordings on a little white cassette tape and I can say that I cherish those bits of audio just as much as any photograph. I need to make it into an MP3 since that cassette isn't likely to last forever...nor the machine to play it.

If you've got a pair of stereo headphones, take a listen at some of the audio clips on the site above. It will vividly transport you to another place. It makes me wonder if there might be some use or market for capturing memories in the form of 3d audio recordings. With the new wave of ipods, podcasts etc., might this be a valid additional form for capturing the memories of your day? I have photographed many weddings where I knew the photograph couldn't quite capture what I was experiencing and I wished I had a way of recording what I was hearing. Food for thought.

It makes me think of people you see out recording sounds and noises to use in movies. It would be kinda cool to have someone just walking around at a wedding gathering not random noises, but bits and pieces here and there of the day and the reception.

Not sure how someone would do it and what it would look like in practice, but it is a very thought provoking post!

I might be an oddity among photographers ... I rarely, if ever, carry a camera with me for capturing memories. I have very few photographs of events in my life or places I've been. I have no personal collections or photo albums. I simply enjoy "capturing" my experiences in my mind, and replaying it all in my own head. I love the sights, sounds, smells and visuals of all that I do and experience, but I also like to keep it unrecorded.

So I can only "imagine" that, if I were blind, I would prefer it the same way. Only the visual aspect would be missing.

Makes me wonder if and how a blind person dreams.

Very interesting Davidwhonevershowsupforlunch (like your new name?). I have cassette tapes of my grandmother talking to me that she mailed to Germany when I was living there as a small child - some of my sister & I singing, lots of neat stuff. Definitely food for thought.

I wonder if there's a place that will put those on CD for me - they're so fragile at this point. Know of anywhere local?

Ha! Ha! I like that. That is me. I get so mad at myself cause I never put it on my calender cause I think I can just remember...and then I always forget! I really do enjoy seeing everyone when I manage to make it. Ok...I'll be there at the next lunch...and you had better be proud of me.

Oh, what a pile of crap! I send out reminder emails a day or so before ;P

Yes, you'd better be at the next one. I will be proud of you, I might even buy you a cookie or something We miss ya!