Mayor of London Opens Photo London – Most Important New Art Fair in London for a Decade
Over 70 galleries from all parts of the world will participate in the first Photo London opening to the public at Somerset House on Thursday 21 May 2015. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will officially open Photo London at an evening reception attended by some of the world’s leading international photographers and galleries on Wednesday 20 May. “At a time when so many of us are using our smartphones to capture images of the people and sights around us, we shouldn’t forget photography’s significance as an important and longstanding art form. Photo London is an exciting addition to the capital’s art and design festivals that draw visitors from across…
First Major Christina Broom Exhibition – The Unsung Female Pioneer of UK Press Photography
So wonderful to be contacted by the Museum of London this afternoon regarding this totally fascinating photography exhibition celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Christina Broom. Widely considered to be the UK’s first female press photographer, Broom began her photographic career in 1903 at the age of 40. Soldiers and Suffragettes: The Photography of Christina Broom will include a cross section of her work, including Suffragette processions, First World War soldiers, official photographs of the Household Division and key London events, from the Lord Mayor’s Parade and royal coronations and funerals to historical pageants. These photographs will be joined by original glass plate negatives, and objects which build a…
Exclusive and Intimate Interview with Thomas Hurst – Photojournalist and Creator of COVR Photo Lens
Thomas Hurst is an admirable man and one that I am very pleased to know and call a friend. Originally, he was introduced to me by one of our Columnists and also good friend, Kevin Kuster – former Senior Photo Editor for Playboy Magazine. Hurst created the COVR lens case and launched a hugely successful campaign via Kickstarter last year for the iPhone 5 raising over $85,000, today he has launched a new campaign for the iPhone 6, you can read more about that here. I have been intrigued by Hurst for sometime, and wanted to learn more. Within this conversation, mostly in his own words, Hurst takes us through…
Kickstarter – COVR Photo Lens Case for iPhone 6 – Now Live
We are very excited to report that the brand new Kickstarter campaign for the iPhone 6 COVR lens case has just launched. Thomas Hurst is the creative genius behind this fantastic product. An award-winning photojournalist for almost 20 years, Thomas captured photographs in some of the most dangerous places in the world. Thomas’ work has appeared in such publications as Time magazine, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. Among his many nominations and awards, Thomas has earned three World Press Photo awards, “Photograph of the Year” from Editor and Publisher magazine and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography while at the Seattle…
iOS Photography Effects App – Circular+ – Free Today
Circular+ by BrainFeverMedia LLC allows you to post process your images with circular effects. It includes additional effects, including lens flares, sky objects and centres. It also includes filters and lens textures. It’s a popular app and usually retails for $1.99/£1.49, today it’s free – click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Enlight – On Sale Today
Enlight is one of the most popular mobile photography apps in the world, it’s about to get even more popular. Usually retailing for $5.99/£4.99 it is on sale today for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (104) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day one hundred and four of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. Today, we congratulate @claybenskin1 – Clay Benskin with this image. Please also check out his Instagram feed, there are many gorgeous images.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Smoke Green’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day ‘Smoke Green’ (15-6315) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Intelligent, Emotional…
New Prizes Announced For Our Streets Ahead Mobile Photography Street Challenge
A few days ago, we announced wonderful prizes for our brand new mobile street photography group, StreetWise, if you missed that, please go here. Today, we are also rolling out these prizes to cover our fabulous women’s only mobile street photography group, Streets Ahead. We recently published a new Challenge to Streets Ahead – Patterns on the Street – asking artists to submit images with this theme to our Flickr Challenge Group – to find out more about this challenge, please go here. Now there’s even more reason to submit your images to this challenge group because for this Challenge we are delighted to be working closer with Thomas Hurst,…
Apple Introduces 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch Trackpad & New $1,999/£1,599 iMac with Retina 5K Display
Apple today updated the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage, longer battery life and faster discrete graphics, delivering even more performance and capabilities to the MacBook Pro line. Apple also today introduced a new $1,999/£1,599 configuration of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display featuring a breathtaking 14.7 million pixel display, quad-core processors and AMD graphics, and lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K display to $1,999/£1,849. “The response to the new MacBook and updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display has been amazing, and today we are thrilled to bring the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash…
