Grand Prize Winners Announced at 2015 Sony World Photography awards,
The Honorary Jury of the world’s largest photography competition today names American photographer John Moore as the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards’ L’Iris d’Or/ Professional Photographer of the Year, amongst other awardees. Chosen from the winners of the awards’ thirteen professional categories, the winning work “Ebola Crisis Overwhelms Liberian Capital” is a hard-hitting series of images that cut to the heart of this human tragedy. Moore, a Senior Staff Photographer and Special Correspondent for Getty Images, and the winning photographs have been universally credited for the early exposure of the scale of the Ebola epidemic in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia and the epicentre of the deadly disease. He collects…
Simon Norfolk – Wins at 2015 Sony World Photography Awards for Landscape
The Honorary Jury of the world’s largest photography competition today names Simon Norfolk as the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards’ Landscape Photographer of the Year. “Norfolk is an incredible photographer and my husband Kevin, has previously interviewed him and featured his work in The Times”. Norfolk, a landscape photographer who lives and works in Brighton and is represented by INSTITUTE, was selected from over 87,000 entries to the Professional competition for a series called “When I Am Laid In Earth”. In the series the photographer maps with a pyrograph the melting away of the Lewis Glacier on Mt. Kenya. Norfolk had previously been awarded 1st place in the Professional People…
Jaime Glasser Joins TheAppWhisperer as a New Columnist
We are delighted to welcome Jaime Glasser as a new Columnist to TheAppWhisperer. Glasser has recently returned to the art world after a career as a Veterinarian and a Research Scientist. She attended the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas. She was a watercolor artist before devoting her career to animals and writing on Animal Hospice. Glasser has joined TheAppWhisperer to host a collaboratory mobile photography group and associated Column called Artistic Anarchy: Mobile Collusions. Artistic Anarchy: Mobile Collusions will be written by Jaime Glasser and edited by Joanne Carter to accompany the Artistic Anarchy: Mobile Collusions Facebook Group – see here. We…
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iOS Photography App – Shift – Huge Update and Giveaway!
We’re very excited to announce Shift 2 by succuessful app developers Pixite. Acknowledging the feedback and support they received from the mobile photography and art community, Pixite explain “we have basically built Shift 2.0 from the ground up based on that feedback during the past four months”. Shift 2 includes additional original texture, colour gradients and most importantly, allowing for user full control. Requiring iOS 7 or later, this version is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Optimised for iPhone 6, 6 and 6+. If you would like to be in with a chance to win a promotional code for Shift, we would like you to like us on…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Lavender Herb’ – 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’ is Lavender Herb (16-3310) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Gifted,…
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (84) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day eighty 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. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @claude photo with this wonderful image “The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” ~Thomas Bulfinch~ Please also check out his Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
The Guardian Publishes iPhone Travel Photographer Julian Calverley’s Landscapes
It’s wonderful to see national newspapers embracing and acknowledging mobile photography more and more. Today, The Guardian has published beautiful atmospheric landscape images by Julian Calverley, all featured in his new book #iPhoneOnly and exhibited at Hebden Bridge’s Snug Gallery. To view all the images and story, go here. Hebden Bridge’s Snug Gallery, link
iOS App Giveaway – Provoke Camera – TheAppWhisperer
“Provoke Camera was inspired by Japanese photographers of the late 1960’s like Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira and Yutaka Takanashi… Simple, elegant and easy to use, Provoke Camera does just one thing, produce black and white images with that gritty, grainy, blurry look reminiscent of the “Provoke” era of photography, and in two great formats; square format 126 and 35mm format 135“. It has recently been updated and we have been given some codes to share with our loyal readers. If you would like to be in with a chance to win a promotional code for Provoke Camera, we would like you to like us on Facebook (here), follow us on…
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (83) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day eighty three 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. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @Shelserkin – Sheldon Serkin with this wonderful image “Climb every mountain”. Please also check out his Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Dark Purple’ – 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’ is Dark Purple (19-2524) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Commanding,…
