Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 12 June 2022
Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to our dedicated group,here. Alternatively if youre an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and well pick you up. Damian De Souza, Jill Lian, Jun Yamaguchi, Fleur Schim, Clint Cline, ilovekongfu, Ian Clarke, Rita Colantonio, Karen Axelrad, Erik Viggh, Gianluca Ricoveri, Hanni K, Deborah McMillion, @vitolx, @filizakart, @eliza,tsitsimeaua, @vickieiphoto52, @jormain, @honor_life, @herwigclaeys, @dbgrayphoto, @f_flyte, @sandralbmartins, @lorenka, @rosaliehellerphotography, @seelooksky, @vickieiphoto52, @deborahmorbetoart, @adrianmcgarry, @lyne.nagele, @lorelie2010, @biju_ramankutty, @amandathomsonscotland, @alice1280, @pieterhagen54, @clarisse_debout, @cat.cel_edits, @silke_metz_artivist, @pause.and.breathe,…
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase 10 April 2022
“I told you I was ill‘, my favourite black comedy quote, by Spike Milligan, engraved into his gravestone. For many, health anxiety is a compartment of life – a dark cell – usually totally separate from their day-to-day self. Of course, there’s a lot to be anxious about in the world today and this phenomena shows no sigh of shrinking. Psychoanalyst Michael Currie notes that we rarely deal with the causes of anxiety – job insecurity for example, or social isolation – when trying to treat it. Writing in The Monthly, he says: “Anxiety-as-disease is treated much like an infection, as if the symptoms were a bacterium that should be eradicated.” The…
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 29 August 2021
It is interesting when you think about ‘selfies’, the word of the year adopted by the Oxford Dictionary in 2013. From the early days of photography, photographers have taken photographs of themselves. Hippolytee Bayard, created photography’s first self portrait in 1840. He actually portrayed himself as a drowned man. It is said he created this image in response to what he interpreted as a waste of his extensive research when the French government overlooked his efforts in preference of Daguerre’s process. Bayard’s selfie is interesting because it is a deliberate attempt at creative expression. Of course, since then many photographers have created selfies as an artistic expression. We’re going to…
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 6 October 2019
One of the treatments I have commenced at hospital this week, is to take part in a six week course of Chi Kung and I’ve been practising it at home ever since, much to the amusement of those who I share my life with. Chi is considered to be the flow of energy through the universe. It is said to flow through channels in the human body and if blocked can lead to poor health. Chi kung involves performing movements that stimulate the flow of chi through the body. As such, it is often referred to as “meditation in motion”. You don’t need to be fit or athletic to do…
