Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – February 16, 2014
This weeks Flickr Group Showcase is totally absorbing, full of outstanding images, many focusing on the climatic conditions of the week around the world, from heavy snow in the US to the floods in the UK. Many of you have sought refugue indoors and have captured the most beautiful portraiture, still life’s and macro images, all completely mesmerising set to the most seductive French vocals and music by Andrea Wittgens. 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…
Tickle Your Fancy – #26 – NSFW
Welcome back to our twenty sixth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of 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. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Pulitzer Prize…
Getty Images – Creative Grants Offered With Additional Award of $20k for Work that Focuses on Empowering Women and Girls
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their mobile photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We’re starting today with an outstanding opportunity from Getty Images. They offer two grants of $20,000 to non profit organisations each year but this year inspired by their partnership with Lean In, they have made available an additional $20,000 to be shared by the photographer and creative agency whose joint proposal is to…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition with Mobile Category – Deadline Approaching
As avid followers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for more years than we care to remember we were delighted to learn last year that the organisers have added a mobile category for smartphone photographers aged 17 and under, called WILD-I, hopefully this will be rolled out within the adult category too at a later stage, we mentioned it here. Since then, the organisers of the competition reached out to Nettie Edwards and Dan Burkholder to provide inspiration to new smartphone photographers and you can read the interview here. The Competition is now in its 50th year but there are only 12 more days to get your entries…
Nokia Introduces the Nokia Lumia 1320 ‘Phablet’ to the UK
Nokia introduces its larger than life Lumia 1320 to the UK market, bringing many of the high-end Lumia innovations to a 6-inch screen smartphone at a significantly lower price point. The latest imaging features, like Nokia Camera and Nokia Storyteller, the most loved Lumia experiences such as global mapping and location services from HERE, together with unlimited streaming of ad-free music with Nokia MixRadio, all come packaged together to offer consumers a compelling choice in a larger-screen smartphone. Nokia Lumia 1320 goes on sale in the UK from February 24th and will be available from EE, Virgin Mobile and Carphone Warehouse as well as online retailers and independent distribution channels.…
iOS Photography App – Romantic Photo – Temporarily Free
Romantic Photo by Jixipix is temporarily free today, for both the iPhone and iPad/HD. Romantic Photo is said to add a romantic mood and ambiance to your images’. So, if you need that little bit extra today, why not download this app, we’d love to see what you create. Both links are below: iPhone – usually retails for $1.99/£1.49/download iPad/HD – usually retails for $2.99/£1.99/download
Happy Valentines Day from The App Whisperer
Wishing you a very Happy Valentines Day, all our readers. columnists, contributors and supporters are very much loved and thank you also for all the personal and beautiful messages I have received today. xxx
Mobile Photography Interview With Luis Perez – A Partially Sighted, Apple Distinguished Educator and Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 105th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Luis Perez, Luis is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in 2013 and is the author of Mobile Learning…
ShutterSnitch – iOS Tool App Giveaway – Worth $17.99/£12.99
We have some more codes of this fantastic iOS Photo tool app to giveaway. ShutterSnitch allows the user to wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card or similar (held within your camera). When a Jpeg arrives, ShutterSnitch analyses the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal length and light levels and warns you of anything different from the rules that you have set up. If you would please join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com.
‘Impossible’ Viewfinder: Lili Plasticienne’s Collages
As you know we’re working closer and closer with the team at the Impossible Project as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. Today we are publishing the second of a series of articles and interviews related to the Impossible Project but ones that we feel could and are being adapted into mobile photography. This article features artist Lili Plasticienne who shares her instant photo project based on collage. I think many of our…
