{"id":657595,"date":"2025-12-27T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:57:12","slug":"my-visual-impairment-has-spurred-me-on-to-a-photography-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657595\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My visual impairment has spurred me on to a photography career&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hickie said his passion for photography started when he was 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not too sure what actually sparked the interest,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been creative and I&#8217;ve always loved the outdoors, so I think when I picked up the camera, it just kind of put them both together and something happened. I enjoyed it, and that was it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hickie was diagnosed with a lazy eye when he was a child and was given eye patches to try and correct his vision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I had to use patches over my strong eye, but because I couldn&#8217;t see where I was going, I just used to rip them off all the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We tried eye drops to fix it, then we tried glasses, but I took them off all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hickie added because his eyesight was not &#8220;fixed&#8221; as a child, his brain has started to &#8220;ignore&#8221; his left eye completely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It [my eyesight] transitioned to something called amblyopia, which is a neurodevelopmental issue, where your brain just starts to ignore your eye, which means I&#8217;m pretty much only seeing out of my right eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hickie said his passion for photography started when he was 14. &#8220;I&#8217;m not too sure what actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115790940927024076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}