Color-Blind Lawyer's Retirement Dream: Work as a Sports Photographer for a Fla. Newspaper
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf in the latter part of his life, when he composed his famous Ninth Symphony. So attorney Daniel Eidsmoe doesn’t see being color-blind as a significant barrier to his own retirement dream of working as a sports photographer for a Florida newspaper.
Now 47, the Illinois lawyer by day is a senior attorney in charge of insurance fraud litigation at Country Financial, which is based in Bloomington. But he also does a significant amount of work behind the lens, serving as the Association of Volleyball Professionals official photographer and taking nature pictures which are the subject of a current exhibition and a book, reports the Pantagraph.
“I don’t want to be a lawyer all my life,” he tells the Bloomington newspaper. “My passion has been to be a photographer. When I lay down at night, I’m thinking about photography.”
Not being able to see a number of colors as others do, he focuses his efforts on the composition of his photographs and leaves it to others to do the color editing. Some of his pictures also are in black and white, such as a mountain road shot he took while on a trip to the West. Riffing on a famous nature photographer who is particularly known for his work in the national parks, Eidsmoe describes the image as his “Dan-sel Adams” look.
