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Photo Competition – The Women’s Committee Of The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
THE WOMEN’S COMMITTEE OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART is pleased to announce its third biennial Photography Competition. The Competition is open to all photographers age 18 and over. A jury of nationally recognized experts will select 6 photographs by 6 different artists. Each winning photograph will enter the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will be exhibited by the Museum as part a special celebratory event to take place in June 2014. Additionally, the winning photographs will be sold individually in editions of 15. Each winning artist will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and will be paid a 5% commission on sales of their prints…
Paper – Temporarily Free
Paper is a beautiful app for your iOS device designed to aid anything from quick sketches to note taking to inspiration. It comes with a good selection of paper textures and high res retina painting, a large selection of sketching tool and more. Usually this universal (for iPhone and iPad) retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
iColorama S – Updated
iColorama S is the iPhone version of this very popular app for iPhone photography. It’s just been updated with new flow, text with shadow and new edges. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here, it retails for $1.99/£1.49. We’ve publsihed several tutorials with this app by our wonderful tutorial edtior, Jerry Jobe, if you’ve missed those, please go here.
New Poetry/iPhone Photography Book – ‘Area 51’ – By Jay Desind And Giveaway!
We’re delighted to mention that Jay Desind’s latest book – Area 51 – is now availble for download in the iBookstore. This is Jay’s third Poetry/photography book and it fully utilises the iBook functionality with each book, all the poems can also be listened to by touching the title, and each photo can also be touched to view a drop down menu that goes on to describe Jay’s experience when taking that specific photograph and the thoughts behind the poem. All the poems are about the concept of love and relationships. Each image has been captured and/or edited with Jay’s iPhone. Area 51 retails for £7.99 in the iBookstore and…
Paris Mobile Photography Award Is Open!
Many thanks to Cedric Blanchon for bringing this fabulous Award to our attention. Organized by Tribegram, the second edition of The Mobile Photography Fair in Paris is held from Nov. 29th until Dec. 1st 2013. To celebrate this event, an international challenge is organized from Nov.7th until Nov. 21st to award the best Mobile Photographer in five categories : B&W, Portrait, Landscape, Abstraction, and Street Photography. The tribegram awards are a special nod given to emergent mobile photographers coming from all over the world. Held in France, they are designed to help Mobile Photography to become a recognized art form within the photography world, and the art world in general.…
PictureBook – ‘Compass Ways’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon’s 27th article to his PictureBook column with us and once again, it is outstanding, gushing with creativity and imagery both in pictures and words, don’t miss this. 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)… ‘Compass Ways -The Myrme’ – ©Benamon Tame The music played faintly behind them, ever fainter as they moved through the empty hall.…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – November 10, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 40th of the year and once again, it is outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: kCe7, Clint Cline, Tracey Renehan, Shel Serkin, Cedric Blanchon, Albion Harrison-Niash, Stephanie Roberts, Federica Corbelli, Lee Thatcher, Sarah Jarrett,…
CameraBag 2/HD – On Sale This Weekend
CameraBag 2 HD (for iPad) and Camera Bag 2 (for iPhone) are quality photo apps for iOS photography and editing and it’s currently available for less today at only $0.99/£0.69 instead of $3.99/£2.49. Click here to download for iPad Click here to download for iPhone
Tickle Your Fancy – #14 – NSFW
Welcome back to our fourteenth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. 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. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Image – ©Penelope…
Virgin Media Shorts 2013 Awards – The Winners
Our roving reporter Nick Spence hit the town last night, well actually the Virgin Media Shorts 2013 Awards Ceremony representing theappwhisperer.com and from all accounts had an amazing experience. Many familiar faces were in attendance including actors, Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Catherine Steadman (Fresh Meat), Olivia Halinan (Sugar Rush), Shelley Conn (By Any Means, Marchlands) and Sienna Guillory (Luther, Love Actually) and more. We’ll leave it to Nick to tell you the rest (over to you Nick) – foreword by Joanne Carter The iconic BFI IMAX cinema in London’s Waterloo played host to the Virgin Media Shorts 2013 red carpet awards ceremony last night, a celebration of new…
