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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – September 2016
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” Henri Cartier-Bresson It is incredibly inspiring to view all of the photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group from around the world – from stunning night scenes, to dramatic black and whites, to captures filled with color, to photos that touch the heart. Thank you so much for participating and inspiring us…
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Mobile Photography StreetWise Sixth Challenge ‘Reflection in the Street’
Hello Everyone! We are in the process of curating our September Showcase and wanted to thank you for submitting such wonderful images we look forward to sharing it with you soon! The theme of our next challenge is “Reflection in the Street’ Deadline: September 31, 2016 “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for all eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” — Bridget Bardot. While walking in the streets there are reflections everywhere, in windows, mirrors, on rainy days, in puddles, on metallic and shiny surfaces, that capture our attention — sometimes we even see our own reflection when capturing a photo. This challenge is…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 74 – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to our seventy fourth showcase in our Mobile Movies Column, curated and edited by Giulia Baita. All of the entries were either shot or created on mobile devices. Many congratulations for being highlighted and featured to: Karen Axelrad, Oskinga, Edith Meier, Tom and Em Kachouro Please join our growing mobile movies community. We are a very enthusiastic and supportive group of artists. • Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions) • Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions) – TheAppWhisperer Mobile Movies Column
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Fifth Challenge Results – ‘Accessories on the Street’
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” Anonymous Welcome to our Fifth StreetWise Challenge Showcase ‘Accessories on the Street’. We are thrilled to share it with you. Thank you so much for participating and sharing your beautiful photographs of people you have seen wearing or utilising accessories on the streets where you live. We thought this would be a fun theme for our group and the photographs certainly illustrate that. It’s also nice to continue to see new faces, adding ever more dimension to this wonderful, creative group. As always, Lee and I hope you enjoy this showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it…
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead Interview – Paula Betlem – Mobile Street Photography
This is a really insightful and absorbing interview between our hugely talented co-editor of StreetsAhead, Cara Gallardo Weil and the inspirational, fresh and very exciting mobile street photographer, Paula Betlem. Thank you both for this, our readers are going to love it! (foreword by Joanne Carter). “This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (StreetsAhead) is pleased and honoured to feature Paula Betlam in our interview segment. I first noticed Paula’s work when she posted some photos on the Hipstamatic Street Photography page on Facebook. Although relatively new to street photography, she is a keen observer and has a good eye for composition. I highly recommend a visit to Paula’s…
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Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – “Alter Ego” Summer Challenge Results
Welcome to our Portrait of an Artist ‘Alter Ego’ Summer Challenge results. We are delighted to share this with you. Different versions of yourselves is what we asked for and different, amazing versions of yourselves is what we have got. Thank you very much for all of your submissions to our Portrait Of An Artist “Alter Ego” Summer Challenge! I am delighted and surprised at the sight of so many incredible interpretations of the self. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this showcase including: Bonny Breddels/Beezzz_, Eliza Badoiu, Lorenka Campos, Meri Walker, Roger Guetta. Patricia Januszkiewicz, Salwa Afef, Liliana Schwitter, Karen Axelrad, Marguerite Khoury, Kathryn Johnson,…
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Apple Reinvents the Wireless Headphone with AirPods
Not so good for stealth mobile street photography… what are your thoughts? Yesterday, Apple introduced AirPods, innovative new wireless headphones that use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music, make phone calls, enjoy TV shows and movies, play games and interact with Siri, providing a wireless audio experience not possible before. AirPods eliminate the hassles of wireless headphones, by just flipping open the lid of its innovative charging case and with one tap, they are instantly set up and ready to work with your iPhone and Apple Watch. Advanced sensors know when you are listening and automatically play and pause your music. Using Siri, AirPods allow you to access your favourite personal assistant with just…
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Fiftieth Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective
Welcome to our fiftieth edition of “StreetsAhead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter.If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if you are a…
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Mobile Movies – ‘Making the Ordinary, Extraordinary’ – Summer Challenge Results
Welcome to our ‘Making the Ordinary, Extraordinary’ Summer Challenge Results. Thank you all so much for participating and sharing your images to our Mobile Movies Flickr Group. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this Challenge: April Lynn, Jo Sullivan, Suku Mehmet Omur, Dani Salvadori, Tessfa and Clarisse Debout.
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – August 2016
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Such a joy to view all of the photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group from around the world! Thank you so much for participating and inspiring us with your images and welcome, also, to those newer to our street photography community. Once again, it was difficult for us to choose only a relatively few images from all those that were submitted – we were blown away by the quality of the photos. As a reminder, we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is…