Quad Photography - New Mobility

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There’s something about beautiful photographs that can make you stop and appreciate the world in a way that’s difficult to do in real time. They can transport you, tell you about other places and people in a way that words simply cannot. But there is certainly a difference between a picture and a quality photograph. A quality photo focuses your gaze on a bead of sweat on an athletes’ chin as she musters all of her body’s coiling energy to return a tennis shot. A picture shows cousin Andy with half his arm cut off standing in front of the world’s largest ball of twine.

Nowadays technology has advanced to the point where you can take quality photographs on even the most common devices. For those with limited function, there has never been a more accessible time to get into photography: all you need is a willingness to try, to practice, and an eye for the world.

If you’ve ever wanted to take better photos, and who hasn’t, you’ll be glad we talked with four photographers with quadriplegia — Loren Worthington, a sports photographer; Robert Andy Coombs, a portrait photographer; Kirk Williams, a drone photographer; and Kary Wright, a nature/landscape photographer — about how they do what they do.

How to Get Started

If you’re just getting started with photography, the specific gear and type of camera you use doesn’t matter a whole lot. Given the price of high-level camera equipment, it’s best to start simple and make sure that photography is more than a passing interest before you invest in thousands of dollars’ worth of gear.

“The art of photography is two parts. One is the technical side of how you set up your camera, but the other part is the composition: where are you going to be, what are you going to put in the foreground, the background itself, and all of that,” says Worthington. “It doesn’t matter if you have a $400 camera phone or $4,000 equipment.”