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iPhone Photography Effect Workflow – Freelensing – By Paul Brown
We’re delighted to republish this fabulous iPhone photography freelensing workflow by Paul Brown. We’ve also just published a Day In The Life Interview with him and he is commonly featured within our weekly Flickr Group Showcase which represents outstanding mobile photography from around the world, weekly. He’s a wonderful mobile photographer and one that loves to share the craft that we all so love. You’ll really love this – many thanks to Paul and over to you (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘In addition to iPhoneography I occasionally take out my digital Fujifilm or my analog Olympus OM10. Using traditional cameras with detachable prime lenses I came across a technique…
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A Day in the Life of Paul Brown – An Incredibly Talented Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our ninety second installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Paul Brown (known as Skip to most), is an exhibited and prize winning iPhone photography from Lincoln, England. He is a member of the global ‘AMPt Community’, a managing member of Lincolnshire based regional mobile photography Group ‘InstaChimps’ and a…
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Unique Interview with Artistic Collaborators – Dutch Photographer Michèle Polak and British Painter Paul Allender
As a visual artist, would you give someone else the freedom to change your original project, giving it more depth by introducing their ideas? Not many people would, I guess. The Dutch photographer Michèle Polak did this very thing. With the English painter Paul Allender. The results of this fascinating collaboration were shown at Xavier Gras Gallery 72, Rue Amelot, Paris @xgras @lebonheurestdanslinstant in the Instant ÉPHÉMERE show at the end of October 2021. And here now on theappwhisperer.com! Polak also exhibited at the VENICE PHOTO LAB gallery in the REBIRTH show in October 2021. The curator was Fabio Cavessago @fabiocavessago Allender has exhibited his paintings at numerous galleries in…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Poem’ – Paul Carroll
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Poem’ by Paul Carroll. ‘Poet and editor Paul Carroll was a vital force on the Chicago poetry scene. He was briefly an editor of the Chicago Review (1957-1958), but when he and coeditors were pressured by the university chancellor to remove controversial pieces from an upcoming issue from William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, he pulled the entire issue and resigned in protest. Carroll founded the little magazine Big Table, where he published the suppressed material; the United States Post Office then seized 400 copies of the first issue and refused to deliver them, declaring the magazine “obscene,” but their decision was…
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‘Brought to Light’ – Mobile Photography / Art Interview with Lisa Mitchell from England, UK
Our ‘Brought to Light‘ interview section explores the mobile photographers and mobile artists behind their art. Each question has been carefully crafted and is designed to allow us to get to know them a little more intimately. To view others that we have published in this series, please go here. Today, we are featuring Lisa Mitchell, from England, United Kingdom. Mitchell has experience as a photographer, dating back to childhood when she first picked up a camera as a creative and visionary ten year old. This series of images, particularly the self portraiture elude meaning and atmosphere in an intimate and personal way. Meticulously edited, these portraits evoke Michell’s soul,…
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Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2016 From Around The World
New Year Resolutions have a long history, the Babylonians pledged to return borrowed objects and repay their debts at the start of each year, while the Romans kicked off January by making a vow to the god Janus (from whom the month takes its name). As we have been repeating and updating this featured article now for several years, many artists have looked back and lamented at their broken promises but also as you read, you will see that many rejoice at the acomplishments that they have achieved. In assessing my goals for the New Year, I don’t list tasks, I analyze the optimal approaches in reaching those goals, breaking…
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Streets Ahead Interview: Armineh Hovanesian – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Armineh Hovanesian in our interview segment. Born in Paris and raised in Tehran and Boston, Hovanesian is now based in Los Angeles. She has had no professional training and photography is currently a hobby for her. Her work been featured in numerous blogs; TheAppWhisperer.com, NEM, Mobiography, Art of Mob, iPhone Photography School, Los Angeles Times, 43mm, F-Stop Photography Magazine, Platform 58, Artist Portfolio Magazine, Environment to be blog, EyeEm, iDownload Blog, iPhone Life Magazine, Grryo, Tarnished and True. She has received Honorable Mentions in Mobile Photography Awards in 2013 and 2014 in the Landscape and Portrait categories…
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Grand Flickr Group Showcase of 2014 – TheAppWhisperer – Mobile Photography
We have just completed this epic showcase of The Best Mobile Photography and Art images of 2014. All of these images were in our favourites section of our Mobile Photography & Imagery Flickr Group. We have painstakingly worked our way through over 8,000 favourited images, from an original of over 115,000. No mean feat but by viewing this showcase you are assured of viewing the immense talent within the mobile photography and mobile art community. It is incredibly impressive. Please do note that we have not been able to include everyones favourited images, there’s just too many, we have had to be very selective to condense it. Please be assured…
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Mobile Photography – New Year Resolutions 2015 From Around The World – Part 2 – TheAppWhisperer
At the beginning of the year it’s traditional to make a promise to oneself to improve in some way, this could be to improve finances, improve education, improve mental health, improve physical health and so on. We decided to speak with mobile photographers to find out what their New Year Resolutions for 2015 are. We have communicated with over 100 people for this article, we would love to include everyone, but we simply can’t, we’d never finish. So please don’t be upset if you’re not in this article, you have not been forgotten, we’re very aware of who you are and will be making a huge effort to include you…
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Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – 10 August 2014
Wow, we have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and once again it’s filled with incredible mobile photography and art images from around the globe. It is a huge joy to curate and view your images and to present them in this format for us all to appreciate even more. Each and every image that is uploaded to our flickr group is very carefully viewed and considered and of course, highly respected. Thank you all for contributing each week for our viewing pleasure, we value you all. Thank you also for all the kind messages I have received following my major surgery. Today is day 19, which I find…