Our next destination!

A plane flies over a blind man with a white cane standing in front of the mountains in Arches National Park

Back in May, my wife Carrie and I took our first trip with the amazing folks at Flight For Sight #FlightForSight. We traveled to California and photographed San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey and Huntington Beach in four days. We got some amazing photos and were able to turn them into tactile images that have ignited a fire in the accessible art industry. Shoutout to the folks in the 3d printing world, who have been so welcoming, and helpful in our journey to not only learn 3d printing but to develop a process that would extract the luminance value and texture from a photo to create a 3d printable touchable result. Words cannot express our gratitude for companies like HueForge, West3D, and Polymaker, who have supported and sponsored our project from day one.

This Sunday, it is time to head off to Moab, Utah where we will photograph the iconic Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park. I’m really looking forward to this trip, we stopped by Arches one time a few years ago while returning to Colorado from Las Vegas. We arrived in the park just as the sun was starting to set, I only had time to take a couple images and one of them was my first award winning photo. I can’t wait to go back and take the time to properly photograph this amazing park.  So, get ready to have your feed filled with photos of me taking photos lol.

Once we get home from Moab, it will be time to schedule our final photo journey with Flight For Sight. I have received a ton of suggestions for locations like New Orleans, Sedona, Arizona, The Florida Everglades, The Smokey Mountains, and Savanah Georgia. What do you think?  Feel free to drop me a message here on my contact page and let me know where you think we should go, and what you would like to feel a photo of. 

Safe Travels, Fellow Wanderers! 

“Traveling, without sight, is an extraordinary journey of exploration. In the quiet footsteps and whispered winds, you discover a world painted in sensations—the warmth of sun-kissed stones, the rhythm of bustling streets, and the symphony of unfamiliar voices. Each tactile map, each shared laughter, becomes a constellation of memories etched upon your soul. In the vastness of the unknown, you find not darkness, but a canvas waiting for your touch—a masterpiece woven from courage, resilience, and the sheer wonder of exploration.” – Ted Tahquechi

About the author

Ted Tahquechi is a blind photographer, travel influencer, disability advocate and photo educator based in Denver, Colorado. You can see more of Ted’s work at www.tahquechi.com

Ted operates Blind Travels, a travel blog designed specifically to empower blind and visually impaired travelers. https://www.blindtravels.com/

Ted’s body-positive Landscapes of the Body project has been shown all over the world, learn more about this intriguing collection of photographic work at: https://www.bodyscapes.photography/

 Questions or comments? Feel free to email Ted at: nedskee@tahquechi.com 

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