TheAppWhisperer – Streets Ahead – Forty Second Edition – Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective
Welcome to the forty second 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…
Mobile Photography – Flickr Group Showcase – 8 March 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
Wow! This is a really strong group of images representing the very best of mobile photography and art from around the world this week. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do. 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 Music this week is ‘Revival’ by Fisher Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Chris Harland, Karen Divine, Angie Johnson, Koos Henning, Juta Jazz, Jormain Cady, Tracey Renehan, Kristie, David Rondeau, Michael Trombley, Michelle Robinson, Bobbi McMurry, Jane Schultz, Meri Walker, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Poetic…
Mobile Photography Book ‘A Small Amount of Courage’ by Karen Divine
Karen Divine is an internationally recognised artist with more than a dozen prestigious awards for her iPhone art. She is also an established member of the mobile photography community and last year published a beautiful book entitled ‘A Small Amount of Courage’. Inside this elegantly bound hardback book are 64 images, loosely based on the 64 Hexagrams of the iChing. If you’re unsure of the understanding of iChing, please read the following: "The I Ching is based on Yin and Yang, the two fundamental ordering principles in Taoist philosophy and cosmology. Typically, one formulates a question for the I Ching and then tosses three coins a total of six times.…
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…
Mobile Photography – A Picture’s Worth with Caroline MacMoran – TheAppWhisperer
‘A Picture’s Worth‘… is where we ask mobile photographers that have created powerful mobile photography/art to explain the processes they took. This includes their initial thoughts as to what they wanted to create, why they wanted to create it, how they created it, including all apps used and what they wanted to convey. We also ask these incredible artists to explain their emotions and how the image projects those feelings. We have published a few A Picture’s Worth articles recently, if you have missed those – please go here. In this A Picture’s Worth today we asked Caroline MacMoran to tell us more about her wonderful image ‘Caught in Between’.…
MIRA Mobile Prize – Overall Winner Announced!
We are delighted to announce the overall winner for the MIRA Mobile Prize is Janine Graf with her rhino image with blue balloons. This photograph was chosen from the shortlist of fifty that myself and other members of the Jury had selected. It reflects high evaluation; consistent work; and was also the preferred image of the curator and the representant of the municipality for the MIRA competition. Many many congratulations Janine. This image along with the shortlisted images will be exhibited in Porto on 6 September at the opening exhibition. Many artists are traveling to this event, if I can, I would like to be there too. This is a…
iPhone Art Book Now Available – ‘A Small Amount of Courage’ by Karen Divine
We’ve known about this upcoming book for sometime and it’s with great pleasure that we can announce the book is now available. It consists of ’64 images loosely based on the 64 Hexagrams of the iChing. Each image is created first, the understanding and insights followed’. Karen Divine explains, ‘As an artist, tapping into your own creative spirit is, first and foremost, a matter of developing awareness. This inner awareness allows you to quiet the senses and allows the unconscious to reveal rich imagery. As Rainer Maria Rilke expressed so beautifully in Letters to a Young Poet, “describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and…
Mobile Masters Second Edition, The PROOF Show will be available May 3rd, 2014
The Mobile Masters Second Edition has already been approved by Apple and will be available in iTunes on Saturday May 3, 2014. It will be free for the first two days, and then revert to its retail price of $4.99/£2.99. We have a teaser video for you to check out in the meantime – here’s the link for that. The Mobile Masters Second Edition will allow you to explore over 50 immersive interactive portfolios with over 300 images from some of the best Mobile Photographers from around the world. Hear them speak about their creative vision and how they created each image in their PROOF Portfolio. Each artist also shares…
Creative iPhone Photography: The Next Step with Karen Divine
Karen Divine has a new course teaching creative mobile photography. Karen has described this course as ‘the next step’ to allow you to push yourselves further to ‘express imagery that is both personal and transformative’, The course is spread over 7 days, 6 nights from November 2 – November 7, 2014 and full details can be found in this link. There’s an early registration discount of $100 to all registrations placed before June 1, 2014.
The Mobile Masters PROOF Event On March 26th!
Now that the Mobile Masters Contest is over come see the winners announced at The Mobile Masters PROOF Event On March 26th! Moscone Center – North Hall, San Francisco, CA Tap Here for Tickets and More Info http://marcolina.com/mobilemasters/mobilemasters_2014.pdf We have a limited amount of Buy One and Get One Half Price tickets please contact Dan Marcolina ASAP if you are interested >> 215.840.3355 or mm@marcolina.com Event Information Mobile Masters 2 at Macworld/iWorld 2014 March 26th is an extreme all-day (10am to 7pm) photography workshop that will lunge you deep into the Processes, Products and Possibilities of the Mobile Photo Movement. Dan Marcolina (iPhone Obsessed, AppAlchemy), Jack Hollingsworth (@photojack),…
