Competition – CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year
Free to enter, the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to change our perceptions of day to day life in the urban environment through their brief: ‘Cities at Work’. The winner will receive a luxury photo-safari trip from a choice of destinations around the globe. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day. Whilst the photograph does not necessarily have to be taken at that specific time of day, it does need to look as though it was.…
iOS App – Phonto – Text on Image – Updated
Phonto is a very popular app for watermarking or just adding text to your images. It has just been updated with the addition of two new fonts (Quirky Nots and A Dripping Marker). There’s also a new Gaussian Blur filter and Plain Image and Image Theme templates too. This is a free update to a free app, click here to download/update.
iOS Photography App – ProCamera 7 – Updated
ProCamera 7 is a very popular image capture and editing app for iOS photography and videography. It has just been updated with as the developers describe ‘one of our most feature packed updates to date’. The updates include new TIFF file saving, Open-in functionality, high res Instagram support and Shadows and Highlights correction tools. You can read more about the updates below. This is a free update if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $4.99/£2.99. New Updates With the new TIFF file format you can now save and edit maximum quality, truly lossless photographs in ProCamera. There are two…
Portrait of an Artist – Photos of Children and Their Toys – Part 2
Wonderful series of portraiture of children with their toys, from all around the world. Stunning series. See the complete article here
Streets Ahead – Tired of Ads? Artist Acts Out!
Just posting this again as the link with attachment did not appear to work when I shared it directly with our Facebook group Streets Ahead. Not street photography per se but representative of street – fabulous idea! One that most definitely appeals to me and I’m sure it would to our readers here – imagine how beautiful the streets would be, graced with your wonderful artwork… See the complete article here
Portrait of an Artist – Photos of Childrens Bedrooms and What They Represent
Just posting this again as the link with attachment did not appear to work when I shared it directly with our Facebook group Portrait of an Artist. These images are incredibly powerful and quite hard hitting. See the complete article here.
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 30, 2014
We are delighted to publish this weeks Flickr Group Showcase it’s another outstanding one full of mobile photography and art from around the world this week. There are some truly fabulous street photography images, I think they’re still coming through from the 24hourProject that over 600 photographers were involved with last week – really stupendous. There are also some exceptionally sublime portraiture and still life and gorgeous conceptual images – I am sure you will love this. 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…
Streets Ahead – 30 Under 30: Women Photographers
Fabulous images and article from LensCulture highlighting Paris-based Photo Boite – now in its fifth year. “Photo Boite has featured 30 women photographers each year who are making work today that deserves worldwide attention. What is it like, then, to be a female photographer, to be a woman who has seized hold of an instrument of which she traditionally remains in front, and to use her eye to view the world, rather than use it to throw back a soft, muted glance into the receiving end of a male gaze? It may sound primitive to talk of the female photographer in such a way, but as the photographers of Photo…
ArtRage for iPad – Temporary Price Drop
Earlier today, we mentioned that the iPhone version of this app is free today (see here), we have just discovered that the iPad version has dropped in price too, it’s not free but instead of $4.99/£2.99 you can pick it up for $2.99/£1.99 today. Click here to download
Streets Ahead – Challenge: Layering – Deadline Today
Just a reminder that today is the deadline to enter our Streets Ahead Challenge on Layering. This is basically the use of reflections – in a building’s glass, a puddle or another shiny object in relation to street photography. We’ve had some great entries as you can see below, these are from left to right – Connie Gardener Rosenthal, Cecily Batey Caceu and Anne-Martine Parent. There’s still time to get your entries in, here’s a recap of the rules: 1. ONE entry only – please do not upload any other images to this group as it has been created specifically for the challenge only. The admins will delete images that…




























