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PictureBook – Telling Lies – By Benamon Tame
‘He could feel it building up inside him, a quiet tickle, a subtle shift at first. Too many years of experience let him know it was coming, and as every time before he tried to fight it, tried to find the shape of it as it grew, feel the edges of it so he could find somewhere to push against. The words started to rise up, he felt the weight of them pushing outwards, and despite them he did not have the words to name how it felt. The tickle became shake and a sickly burn as he fought the compulsion that bubbled within him. He barely noticed the twitch…
Joanne Carter Celebrates With David Bailey, Heather Kerzner, Graham Norton and More…
Many of you may of seen a few of my images on Facebook last night of the event I attended at The Bulgari Hotel, Knightsbridge, London but I also know many of you are wondering what it was about, so I thought I tell you more, as it’s splashed in the nationals now too. The event was organized by Samsung to celebrate the launch of their hot new Smart Camera the NX300. Bailey hosted a charity auction in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care organization and a number of his great works were auctioned off for thousands of pounds. Also, the organizers had found around twenty other people named…
Streets Ahead – Second Edition – With Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines
We’re delighted to publish the Second Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that both Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines run. This is an incredibly exciting Column and if you would like to learn more about it, go here. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here – over to you Maddy and JQ (foreward by Joanne Carter). “We would like to thank everyone for participating in the Streets Ahead Flickr group. There were many fantastic submissions and we were extremely impressed with the quality of the images. For this weeks Streets Ahead Showcase we each picked our 5 favorite images…
Gray’s Anatomy – ‘And the winner is…’ – By Richard Gray
Sound of a drum roll. And I am delighted to annouce that Vivi Hansen is the winner in our Advanced competition, held jointly by The App Whisperer and Gray’s Anatomy (aka Richard Gray aka @rugfoot)! Vivi wins a place on my Advanced iPhoneography Group class, a course of five weekly evening sessions held in central London. The course is now sold out but stay tuned via the various traditional media for news of future courses. If you’re interested in seeing some of the cracking work produced by students on the first series of workshops, head over to our Flickr group here. Vivi won the competition with her wonderful image of…
Backspaces Features JQ Gaines’ Latest ‘Streets Ahead’ Visual Diary Post – ‘Vaisakhi’
We’re delighted that the developers of Backspaces have featured JQ Gaines’ ‘Streets Ahead‘ Visual Diary post ‘Vaisakhi’. We mentioned it here yesterday, as part of Maddy McCoy’s and JQ’s Streets Ahead Column with us. JQ’s post is currently displaying on the front page of Backspaces as you can see in the screen shot below and is marked with a Star in recognition of being a featured post.
Streets Ahead – Visual Diary Article – ‘Vaisakhi’ – By JQ Gaines
We’re delighted to publish in full a Visual Diary article by JQ Gaines’ via our specialist dedicated Backspaces section, see here that compliments JQ’s and Maddy McCoy’s Streets Ahead Column with us. The concept of Streets Ahead is best expressed in their own words – “This column will provide a platform for discussion on the techniques, aesthetics, and goals that we, as women, bring to this art form. In addition to the weekly showcase, we have set up a dedicated Flickr group –see here. We also plan on featuring bimonthly interviews as well as sharing our own experiences and learning curves in mobile street photography. We will do this through a Visual Diary…
PictureBook – The End of Dreams – By Benamon Tame
“There was silence in the library. A wing of the Toy room was filled with books, lining heavy shelves and piled high as if in the memory of trees. Faded children’s books lay between scarlet encyclopedia and almanacs filled with the treasures of the Empire. Manuals of Manners and stranger books brought by the last Governess. The memory of light and those that flew burned into her mind and overlaid all she saw, looped in ascension over the jagged landscape that lay beneath her feet. The tip of one feather caught in a breeze and she shifted back from the edge of the tower, her limb a crude and constant…
Streets Ahead – First Edition – With Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines
We’re delighted to publish the First Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that both Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines run. This is an incredibly exciting Column and if you would like to learn more about it, go here. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here – over to you Maddy and JQ (foreward by Joanne Carter). “We would like to thank everyone for participating in the Streets Ahead Flickr group. There were many fantastic submissions and we were extremely impressed with the quality of the images. For our inaugural Streets Ahead Showcase we each picked our 5 favorite…
Technical Tutorial – ProCam – Another Look!
When I first looked at ProCam I was still working with an iPhone4….and it was several versions back. Since then, I’ve picked up an iPhone 5…and ProCam has just come out with its latest update. Time to take another look at this great camera app! ProCam retails for $0.99/£0.69. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can pick it up here. I won’t be covering everything this app is capable of doing in this tutorial…just enough to give you a get-started taste. Future tutorials will dig deeper. I promise!! Let’s start with a quick tour of ProCam’s interface. Beginning at the right hand of the screen…and going…
The App Nerds Workshop – By Lola Mitchell With Sara Tune
We’re delighted to published the latest article to Lola Mitchell’s App Nerds Workshop Column. In this article, Lola colloborates with her friend and also very well known mobile photographer Sara Tune, don’t miss this…(foreward by Joanne Carter). “Sara Tune is the person that made me discover iphone photography and its potential. I consider her an extremely talented photographer and artist and she is also a friend. Two weeks ago she came over to my house and we tried taking photos of each other to change from our self portraits. I thought it was extremely challenging and I learned a lot from it. Today she agreed to share her steps…


























