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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 14 August 2016
Creative arts and rejection go hand in hand, the latter is almost part of the process. It’s not just within the creative arts that we hanker to be accepted, to suceed, to realise our dreams. We all need each other to thrive, it’s the nature of humanity, human beings need one another. A young child experiencing unconditional love will live, will thrive, will prosper, will flourish, grow and bloom. Love is essential to early development but other than early childhood, rejection is hardly physically life-threatning. But it hurts, rejection in any form hurts, because our feelings are deeply intimate. When we are judged unfairly through untruths, the more upset we…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 17 July 2016
Art and health are in-explicitly linked, we know the obvious health benefits and therapeutic advantages of creating physical art with paintings and photography but also it’s linked with literature and medicine. Many will notice ‘the ‘language barrier’ when visiting a doctor. Sometimes your doctor may not understand your condition because you cannot describe it lucidly enough and in turn, your doctor cannot describe the proposed treatment because he cannot explain it squarely to you. Language is integral to medicine, as an art, this means language is integral to our health. Chekhov famously quipped: “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend…
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Mobile Photography & Art – The Courage to be Afraid – Showcase for Carolyn Hall Young
Recently, I set up a Facebook group entitled – The Courage to be Afraid – A Tender Tribute to Human Valiance with Carolyn Hall Young. Hall Young is our dear friend and hugely talented artist and many of you are aware that she is currently experiencing particularly challenging health issues. This group was made with love and is full of love from all the artists who have joined this group to create and share their images for her. I have complied each image into a film showcase, so that she can view all of them in one sitting (hopefully). When she is feeling more well, I am sure she will…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 10 July 2016
I need to tell you this, “your mobile photography and art is a gift, you are all highly intelligent story tellers. Your art posses the charm to embed itself into all who view it, into their psyche“. This is what originally motiviated and attracted me and it continues to do so, your imagery. “We also have a beautiful community, this is hugely motivating and rewarding to all. This weeks showcase of your art, is a symphony of passion, insatiable longing with unquenchable desire to to learn more. A burst of brilliance explosive, sparkling touch, the climax is like no other. Enjoy!“ If you would like your work to be considered for…
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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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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 26 June 2016
“Never say you know the last word about any human heart”, a quotation by Henry James from the rich tapestry of a book I am currently reading, Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Art links all around us and we need to be able to tie it altogether, to make it whole. Human expression within this weeks mobile photography and art Flickr Group Showcase, speaks to us. Worldly wise, yet perilously frail, many of these images demonstrate the agony and ecstasy of love and life lived. This weeks showcase is a wholly humane romance and a worthy treat for all of us. Enjoy! If you would like your work to…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 19 June 2016
This weeks Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase is a vivid chronicle of our era. This is not only prevalent in the choice of technology used but also in the way it encompasses our emotional worlds in startling detail. Each image demonstrates acute visual descriptive prowess with piercing intelligence. Enjoy! If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. If you would like to view our previous Flickr Group Showcases (please go here). Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Jun Yamaguchi, Candice (CLAY3) Railton, Marco…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 12 June 2016
Here is a powerful showcase of artists’ work whose passion for mobile photography and art almost rages through their entire being. So determined are they to fulfil their talent, that as you watch and you listen, you feel the euphoria of a performance before a rapturous audience. This immensely gripping body of work, skillfully oscillating between perspectives will leave you astonished. Not only have these artists given mobile photography and art a well-deserved boost, they’re done the rest of us a real service. Enjoy! If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated…
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Forty Ninth Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective
Welcome to the forty ninth 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 you…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 5 June 2016
“However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life’s sweet caress” and so continues the wistful prose of William Boyd’s 16th novel, Sweet Caress, that I have deeply indulged this week. Boyd is a brilliant novelist and I highly recommend our readers enjoy this tale of a fictional female photographer, in this brilliant story of a life well lived. It engrosses with a level of detail that I often hanker for. This weeks’ mobile photography and art flickr group showcase overwhelms with a narrative all of its own. With a resolute, all encompassing, technically…