Mobile Photography Awards – Pocket Vistas – Call For Entries
The MPA and the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts are pleased to announce an open call for entries for POCKET VISTAS: A Mobile Photography Exhibition for Landscapes, Nature & Wildlife images. The entry period runs July 10-24, 2014. Images created with all mobile phones and tablets are eligible. Submissions are open to photographers and artists worldwide. A field of flowers with eye-popping color. A tiny figure at the edge of a canyon. Horses in motion, a sun drenched forest, a misty morning oceanfront…Mobile photographers create some of the world’s most compelling photographs of the natural world. The best work engages the aesthetics, craft, and tradition of landscape photography while embracing the advantages of…
Mobile Photo Essays – New Column On TheAppWhisperer!
We are delighted to announce a brand new Column on theappwhisperer.com entitled ‘Mobile Photo Essays’. This Column will be edited by multi talented and highly qualified Gina Costa (a museum curator and lecturer on 20th century art and photography) and will include full coverage of mobile photo essays, along with interviews with photographers and additional articles. We are so delighted that Gina has agreed to join us and we can’t wait to view your fabulous essays. Please can you forward your essays to Gina directly here – gcosta9@gmail.com and to myself here – Joanne@theappwhisperer.com. You can choose to create your photo essays using an app, or separately, we really do not mind,…
Instagram – Chicago South Side – Stories from Jon Lowenstein
Jon Lowenstein (@jonlowenstein) is a photographer that I much admire. Fifteen years ago he started an assignment based around Chicago’s South Side. As a new resident, he started photographing the community with an SX-70 and 4×5 cameras, leaving Polaroid images with his neighbours, he became known as the ‘Photoman’. He transformed vacant apartments within his housing complex into community exhibition spaces called “The Island”, and taught photography classes at a local elementary school. “When I started the project on the South Side, analog was the only way to go. Nowadays so many people in the ‘hood use Instagram that it is a real way to communicate on a local level,…
iOS Photography App – Image Blender – Updated
Image Blender is a hugely popular app for creative mobile photography editing, it allows the user to combine images with masks and various blend approaches. Image Blender has just been updated with Color Filters. Image Blender will also save images taken in app to your camera roll. This is a free update, if you have already purchased Image Blender, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $2.99/£1.99/download/update
Eloise Capet – ‘Bridge of Light’ with Joanne Carter – Mobile Photographer Interview
‘Would you believe me if I told you I was living a second honeymoon right now?’ Eloise Capet talks with Joanne Carter at TheAppWhisperer.com about her love affair with mobile photography and her future plans. We are delighted to publish this interview with Eloise Capet, a wonderful French Photographer based in Paris near the Sacré Coeur of Montmartre. Capet is an academic with a specialization in Semiotics, from the University of Sorbonne where she now works within the Communications Department. An expert in social media, Capet works with large companies, designing training programs as well as advising communication teams in digital development. Photography became part of her life whilst…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – July 6, 2014
Well, it is another totally stunning week of incredibly high level work uploaded to our Flickr Group. This showcase is literally oozing with incredible and beautiful mobile photography and art. It is such a joy to curate each week, thank you to all who uploaded their images and many congratulations to all the artists featured. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Anne Highfield, Shinnya Umetsu,…
Tickle Your Fancy #43
Welcome back to our forty third post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. This week we look incredible firework photographs…
Bob Weil iPhoneography Course – Final Day For 50% Discount
This is a complete online course on creating fantastic layered photo art compositions, where you learn not only how to take great photos and edit them into a striking artistic images, but also how to combine multiple images (as well as textures and graphic elements and typography) to create rich, intricate works of art — works you could immediately print to canvas and display. Acclaimed award-winning photographer and artist Bob Weil (and co-author of the sensational book The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone) will take you on a journey unlike any other. You won’t simply learn to run some apps on an image…
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award Laureate and Exhibition Opening in Arles
Next week the Photography Festival in Aries will commence. I am incredibly lucky to have received a VIP invitation to the event, unfortunately I cannot attend this time but I wanted to ensure our readers knew of this fabulous festival. I have also included a wonderful interview explaining more as well as images by the Award Winners. The official announcement of the 5th Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award laureate for 2014 takes place on 10th July. The event will also act as the exhibition opening of Spasibo, a show of work by the previous year’s Award winner, noted Italian photojournalist Davide Monteleone. Established in 2009 with the aim of supporting and promoting the…
Hipstamatic – Brand New ‘The District’ HipstaPak
Not only is it the 4th July but it’s also the First Friday of the Month and at Hipstamatic, that means only one thing – the release of a new HipstaPak. This months HipstaPak is based on a President Roosevelt theme and features the Lincoln Lens – ‘this lens shines like a lucky penny, illuminating your subject with a focussing glow’. There’s also the T. Roosevelt 26 Film – ‘put some fight in your photos with this feisty monotone film, inspired by the 26th president’. This pak retails for $0.99/£0.69 and is waiting patiently for you to download it in your Hipstamatic shopping basket.
