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Meet the Samsung S21 FE: A Flagship Smartphone Designed for Fans of All Kinds
The newest member of the Galaxy S21 family delivers fan-favourite S21 features – like powerful performance, a pro-grade camera, and seamless ecosystem connectivity – all in a refined, iconic design
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 12 December 2021
This is a magnificent showcase, pulsatingly alive and beautifully displayed, it reinforces my opinion that there are few artists out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the mobile artists displayed here. 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 you’re an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and we’ll pick you up. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Susan Detroy, Rita Colantonio, Don Ferber, Susan Maxwell Schmidt, anandamoy chatterji, Jun Yamaguchi, Clint Cline, Fille.de.Lumière, Vadim Demyanov, Gianluca Ricoveri, Alexander…
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Staycations are Back – Where Will You Go?
The Spring Bank Holiday weekend is near and no doubt front of mind for many UK residents in search of somewhere new to explore. The UK is a nation that has been changed forever following over a year of restrictions, with 61% agreeing that they will no longer take leaving their local area for granted. It’s no surprise that with restrictions gradually easing in the UK that staycations are on the horizon, over half (57%) of Brits are gearing up to leave their hometown and visit their favourite UK spots this summer. With the next bank holiday weekend only weeks away, Samsung has revealed 21 epic UK destinations that the…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs…
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Mobile Photography/Art #tawselfie Challenge
You may recall our recent Sunday Showcase post where we discussed Rembrandt’s first self portrait compared with another, thirty years apart. We also touched on ‘selfies’ today. If you did not read it, please go here. Today, we are launching our new mobile photography and art challenge. We would like you to post one selfie to Instagram with this hashtag #tawselfie but within the caption, please state how many you took before deciding to post the one that you have done, this is imperative to be included within this challenge. Please take a look at Catherine Caddigan’s image below with caption ‘after eight selfies’. We’ll publish a showcase of these…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 20 December 2020
This weeks mobile photography and art showcase is a narrative on life and for many of us, life right now does not offer the freedom it once did… Freedom seems like a luxury, one we all took for granted. What connects people in this showcase and our community of artists is the ability to express ourselves in the ways we most discern, through our art and we keep at it. The sheer ingenuity that you will view today is elegant and strong, engaging and questioning each piece created by independent minds producing compelling artistry. Enjoy. Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If…
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iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review
We’re very excited to publish Austin Mann’s Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera review, don’t miss this! We couldn’t rate his work higher, if we tried. hello from zion national park, ut! “We’ve been adventuring through canyons, rivers, mountains, and more with the iPhone 12 Pro Max and have learned a lot along the way. In case you missed it, I posted my iPhone 12 Pro review from Glacier National Park a few weeks ago and we found significant camera improvements, driven mainly by major software upgrades. Be sure to check it out as most of my focus today will be on the major hardware upgrades of the iPhone 12 Pro Max,…
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TrueView Video ‘How Has Covid-19 Affected Your Mobile Art? with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States
I am so proud to publish our eighth new TrueView Video today with highly talented and award winning mobile artist Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, United States. You may recall, our TrueView Video‘s are a unique glimpse into the life and times of mobile artists within our community. With each TrueView Video we pose one singular question and we ask the artist to record their answer to video. This time our question to Lynette Sheppard was “how has Covid-19 affected your mobile art?”. Sheppards’s answer to this thought provking question offers intriuging juxtapositions of art and the present, events at the core of modernism. This is a compelling and honest account, questioning how unconditionally time…
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Mobile Photography & Imagery – Eighth Assignment ‘Belonging’ #tawbelonging
Yesterday we published our ‘Ladylike’ chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’. If you missed that, please go here to view. Today, we’re extending the contribution date for our latest assignment ‘Belonging’, due to the busy Christmas/holiday period. To take part please send your image(s) to my email address – joannetheappwhisperer@protonmail.com and/or to Instagram with this hashtag #tawbelonging. At the end of each month, we will gather the images that have been contributed and select one for this immersive critique. I will personally write this essay with over 1000 words. Each critique will identify the elements, contextual meaning of these elements, interpretation and conclusion. Each critique will then be…
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Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 5
Featuring an Always-On Retina Display, Built-In Compass and International Emergency Calling