COLUMNS
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 26 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-sixth article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
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Streets Ahead – Challenge 4 – Architecture Deadline April 30, 2014
We’re delighted to publish news of a new challenge to our Streets Ahead Women’s Mobile Photography group. For this challenge we would like you to capture an image that also includes architecture as well as people within the shot. A recap of the rules and procedure for entry: 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 are not relevant. 2. Upload your image to the group on flickr that has been created specifically for the challenge entries. http://www.flickr.com/groups/2298376@N24/ 3. Please label your image ‘Challenge 4: Architecture. You…
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Streets Ahead – Flo Fox – 10 Minute Video Documentary Full of Inspiration, Life and Love!
Please take a few minutes to watch this 10 minute documentary on acclaimed street photographer Flo Fox. Brooklyn based filmmaker Riley Hooper created this film entitled ‘Flo: Portrait of a Street Photographer’. This is the film’s description – ‘This 10-minute documentary explores the life and work of photographer Flo Fox, who, despite blindness, multiple sclerosis, and lung cancer, continues to shoot the streets of New York City. No longer able to hold a camera, she instructs her aides to take photos for her. She’s an incredible woman with a feisty spirit, sharp wit, and dirty sense of humor’. FLO from Riley Hooper on Vimeo.
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PictureBook – ‘The Clown in Yellow’ by Benamon Tame
Benamon has done it again! It’s just a week since we published his previous column article ‘The Ballad of Leopold and Adolphu’ see here. This week Benamon has created another wonderful piece for to his PictureBook Column, once again bursting with creativity and imagery both in words and pictures – thank you Benamon. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… …
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Streets Ahead – Thirty Fourth Edition – Mobile Street Photography
Welcome to the thirty fourth edition of “Streets Ahead,” 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…
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‘APPart’ – Column with Mel Harrison Updated and Revamped!
We are delighted to announce that our wonderful APPart Column edited by Mel Harrison has today been revamped and updated. We are planning to generate lots more content relating to digital art and collages, this will include interviews with digital artists, tutorials, reviews, showcases, commentaries and news. To help facilitate this update we have created a brand new Facebook Group specifically for this Column. It is called APPart and you can find it and join it here. In addition we have also set up a brand new Flickr Group for this column. We would like to see all your digital art and collages added to this specialised group, we will…
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Streets Ahead – Challenge 3 – Showcase
Welcome to the showcase for our third challenge, ‘Layering’ (the use of reflections – in a building’s glass, a puddle or another shiny object.). The objective of these challenges is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We would like Streets Ahead to be an interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community. With many congratulations to Anne-Martine Parent, Annie Helmsworth, Armineh Hovanisan, Cecily Batey Caceu, Connie Rosenthal, Dani Salvadori, Donna Donato, Em Kachouro, Gina Costa, Jamie Glasser,…
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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
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PictureBook – ‘The Ballad of Leopold and Adolphu’ – By Benamon Tame
We are absolutely delighted to publish Benamon Tame’s latest article (his 31st!) to his PictureBook Column with us. PictureBook is full of creativity and imagery in words and in pictures. It is a complete joy to read, view and publish – thank you Benamon. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… ‘Leopold and Adolphus’ – ©Benamon Tame The sound of wood…
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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




























