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Mobile Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #59
Welcome back to our fifty ninth post in our Tickle Your Fancy section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between seven to eight links to articles from around TheAppWhisperer over the past few weeks, that you may by chance have missed. 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. Enjoy!
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (933) via Instagram
Here’s day nine hundred and thirty three of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @lilaschwitter – Liliana Schwitter with this image, entitled ‘Black Friday Sale’. To view more of her work, please go here
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘When Giving Is All We Have’ by Alberto Rios
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘When Giving Is All We Have’ by Alberto Rios, 1952 and I felt it perfect for the upcoming Thanksgiving period. Ríos was born on September 18, 1952, in Nogales, Arizona. He received a BA degree in 1974 and an MFA in creative writing in 1979, both from the University of Arizona. “Alberto Ríos is a poet of reverie and magical perception,” wrote the judges of the 2002 National Book Awards, “and of the threshold between this world and the world just beyond.” He holds numerous awards, including six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award…
Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes Of Jo Sullivan
We are delighted to bring to you the tenth in our brand new series of interviews within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled “Seeing through the eyes…”. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to enable us to view the artists style…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (932) via Instagram
Here’s day nine hundred and thirty two of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @realityfragments with this image, untitled. To view more of their work, please go here
Google adds Night Sight option to Pixel smartphones’ Camera app
Google’s Pixel smartphone Camera app is being updated with new functionality to allow the capture of clean images in light levels so low you can barely see, according to a post on the company’s AI Blog. The app is used in all of Google’s Pixel smartphones from the original model to the latest Pixel 3, so anyone with one can download the update and benefit from the new functionality. Night Sight leverages computational photography and machine learning techniques that were originally developed for the HDR+ feature and added to the app in October 2014. HDR+ uses a burst of multiple shots with short exposure times aligning each and averaging the…
Lume Cube announces new AIR variant for mobile creators
A development of the original Lume Cube, the super-portable external LED light source for smartphone users, the Lume Cube Air is smaller lighter, version aimed at vloggers and other mobile creatives. The new Air features a single LED light source with a custom designed lens in front of parabolic-shaped light modifier. Not only does this arrangement provide a highly directional light with a 60-degree coverage typical of telephoto lenses with a x2 magnification, as well as wider lensed cameras found on smartphones, it is claimed to have a smooth ‘fall-off’ that’s favored by portraitists. The LED is also daylight-balanced at 5600K, and is powerful for its size emitting 400 LUX…
Mobile Photography Training – ‘The Traveler’s Guide to iPhone Photography’
I am delighted to promote this brand new course by our friend and regular contributor, Austin Mann. We have featured Mann’s work extensively throughout TheAppWhisperer over the years. He’s a highly accomplished mobile photographer and I can confidently vouch for this new course. It’s designed to ‘unleash your creativity’ and anything that does that, is a huge bonus, in our books. To find out more or to take this course, please follow this link
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (931) via Instagram
Here’s day nine hundred and thirty one of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @imagomimago – Mimi Svanberg with this image, entitled ‘Different road, same destination…’. To view more of her work, please go here
Mobile Photography & Art – The Quilt Project at The Kemp Center for the Arts in Texas, United States
Yesterday, our community mobile photography and art travelling quilt was fixed for display, for the first time, at The Kemp Center for the Arts in Texas, United States. In this photograph (below) you can see mobile artist, Lorenka Campos standing next to this hand sewn gorgeous project. Each square represents artwork from one artist and there are 234 squares. I am particularly proud of ‘my’ square, as I share it with our dear friend and huge supporter of mobile art, Carolyn Hall Young. Sadly, she had already passed when this project got underway, but as she meant so much to all of us, I felt if I submitted one (of…
