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Mobile Movies – ‘Making The Ordinary, Extraordinary’ – Summer Challenge
Welcome to our first Mobile Movies Challenge. The theme of this challenge is ‘Making the Ordinary, Extraordinary’. The main objective being to demonstrate our ‘ordinary’ moments of daily life in an ‘extraordinary’ way. Please take a look at some example movies below. Dates for submission are from 20th July 2016 – 15th August 2016 All submissions must be posted to our Mobile Movies Group with this hashtag #MakingtheOrdinaryExtraordinary – so we can identify your movies more easily – please follow this link Dates for submission are from 11th July 2016 – 15 August 2016
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Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – Summer Challenge
Welcome to our first Portrait of an Artist Challenge. The theme of this challenge is ‘Alter Ego’. The main objective being to develop and of course photograph a different persona. I think of this challenge as ‘a great opportunity to look inwards and make great discoveries about yourself’. To recap, we would like to ask participants to think of Alter Ego as: 1) The part of someone’s personality that is not usually seen by other people. 2) A second self. 3) The opposite side or counterpart of a personality. Dates for submission are from 20th July 2016 – 15th August 2016 All submissions must be posted ONLY to our specific…
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Mobile Art – Appstracts – App for Carolyn Hall Young
Recently, the mobile art Facebook group, Appstracts, administrated by Roger Guetta and Grant Basma Horsnell asked of the group to create a mobile art image for dear Carolyn Hall Young, who is currently very unwell. I have gathered all the images together to make one video showcase to share with you all. (Please do note, that I have gone through the group several times, searching for all the images for this particular showcase and I believe I have included everyone, if not, please just let me know and I will add you). Many congratulations to the following artists and thank you all so much for creating these images for Carolyn:…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Third Challenge Results – Minimalism
Welcome to our Third StreetWise Challenge Showcase – ‘Minimalism’. We are thrilled to share it with you! “Anyone can make the simple complicated; creativity makes the complicated simple” Charles Mingus. We were thrilled by your photographs submitted for our StreetWise Minimalism Challenge. This theme was indeed challenging, and Lee and I were so happy to see the wonderful displays of ‘creativity’ utilised by our group to come up with an eclectic array of images. Thank you so much for participating and rising to the occasion to inspire us once again with your photographs. We hope you enjoy the showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Many congratulations to…
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Streets Ahead – Women’s Mobile Street Photography – New Challenge – ‘Panning’
We are proud to announce a new Challenge to our Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective – Streets Ahead. The details are below and the selected images will be portrayed in a showcase later in the month, for an example of that, please see here. CHALLENGE 13: Panning Deadline 20 July 2016 Time for a new challenge. Panning on the street with your mobile phone. Panning is not about movement, it is movement, and that’s what makes it challenging: it’s the following of a moving subject along its plane of motion. Most often it’s a horizontal plane with the subject a runner, a rider and so on. Essentially, you should be…
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Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – Nineteenth Video Showcase – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to our nineteenth Portrait of an Artist Showcase! This Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Ile Mont. Every two weeks Mont will review and curate work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, we will create a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we will also highlight a few images that have 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)…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 72 – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome the seventy second 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: Jo Sullivan, Natali Prosvetova, Clarisse Debout, Roger Guetta and Armineh Hovanesian. 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 Essays – Show Us Yours!
We have a dedicated column at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Meri Walker and Gina Costa to mobile photography essays/stories. We would love to see yours! There are various ways you can contribute to this section and we have detailed those in our post here. One way, that you may find particularly simple is by using the app Steller, free to download and use. We can then directly input your stories into our posts, such as the one we have featured below by Stef LePape – Sanikdote. When you create your story in Steller, please add this hashtag #theappwhisperer – then we will be able to locate it with ease. For more…
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Mobile Photo Essay – Gina Costa Wins First Prize Award
I am very proud of our co-editor Gina Costa (along with Meri Walker) for taking the first prize of the Latin American Mobile Photography Exhibition Award for her photo essay on the theme of memory, decay and beauty. The Latin American Mobile Photo Festival and Awards Exhibits are on display now until 24 July 2016. To find out more about this incredible event, please go here. Please note that we are accepting your mobile photo essays for features on TheAppWhisperer.com. Please go here to visit our FB forum and here, to visit our website Column for this section.
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – June 2016
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” Robert Frank We were thrilled and particularly moved by your photos submitted to our StreetWise Flickr group and chose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is important to focus on the key aspects of street photography composition, timing, juxtaposition, catching the decisive moment rather than relying on too much aping. We therefore feel that aping should be kept to a minimum cropping, tweaking exposure, colour, adding a grain or texture is ok but we would like to see you steer away from overly app’ed images…
