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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Fifty First Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective
Welcome to our fifty first edition of “StreetsAhead,” 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 are…
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‘Keep The Focus’ – Meditation Techniques for Street Photographers – Free eBook
Many of us either try or do use meditation in our daily routines to aid our well being. Bringing brain and body together, in harmony, can help us deal with many things that we face each day. I need to practice it more, I know that many in our mobile photography community are huge advocates of it, not least our dear friend Carolyn Hall Young, who I know has practised it since she was 16 years old and it has helped her cope with so much. So, with that in mind, I was very interested to learn of this new free eBook ‘Keep the Focus’, which is a practical guide…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – November 2016
“Of course it’s all luck.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Thank you all so much for inspiring us with your incredible photos – we were quite blown away by the varying depths of creativity in this group! It makes it very difficult for us to choose such few images for the showcase from all those that were submitted. We hope you will enjoy our November showcase as much as Ilana and I enjoyed putting it together! A special thank you to Joanne. As a reminder, we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is important to focus on the key aspects…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Seventh Challenge – ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street’
Hello Everyone! The theme of our next challenge is ‘Shapes and Geometry in The Street’ Deadline: October 31, 2016 “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place” Elliot Erwitt Shapes and Geometry are popular themes in any genre of photography, and street photography is no different. There are so many wonderful ways to incorporate both elements into your street shots. From the passing of a square or rectangular window, a circular cutout on a construction site wall, large triangular marble slabs on the side of a building there are numerous architectural details of multitude shapes, the repeated pattern of a floor…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Sixth Challenge Showcase ‘Reflection in the Street’
Hello Everyone! Welcome to our Sixth StreetWise Challenge Showcase ‘Reflection in the Street.’ We are thrilled to share it with you. Thank you so much for participating and sharing your beautiful photographs. Lee and I were quite wowed by all the incredible submissions to this challenge. There were so many varying, artistic ways in which reflection was captured that it was difficult for us to chose amongst them. It’s also nice to see our wonderful, creative group continue to grow. As always, Lee and I hope you enjoy this showcase as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured in this showcase,…
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Mobile Photography StreetWise Sixth Challenge ‘Reflection in the Street’
Hello Everyone! We are in the process of curating our September Showcase and wanted to thank you for submitting such wonderful images we look forward to sharing it with you soon! The theme of our next challenge is “Reflection in the Street’ Deadline: September 31, 2016 “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for all eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” — Bridget Bardot. While walking in the streets there are reflections everywhere, in windows, mirrors, on rainy days, in puddles, on metallic and shiny surfaces, that capture our attention — sometimes we even see our own reflection when capturing a photo. This challenge is…
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead Interview – Paula Betlem – Mobile Street Photography
This is a really insightful and absorbing interview between our hugely talented co-editor of StreetsAhead, Cara Gallardo Weil and the inspirational, fresh and very exciting mobile street photographer, Paula Betlem. Thank you both for this, our readers are going to love it! (foreword by Joanne Carter). “This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (StreetsAhead) is pleased and honoured to feature Paula Betlam in our interview segment. I first noticed Paula’s work when she posted some photos on the Hipstamatic Street Photography page on Facebook. Although relatively new to street photography, she is a keen observer and has a good eye for composition. I highly recommend a visit to Paula’s…
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Apple Reinvents the Wireless Headphone with AirPods
Not so good for stealth mobile street photography… what are your thoughts? Yesterday, Apple introduced AirPods, innovative new wireless headphones that use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music, make phone calls, enjoy TV shows and movies, play games and interact with Siri, providing a wireless audio experience not possible before. AirPods eliminate the hassles of wireless headphones, by just flipping open the lid of its innovative charging case and with one tap, they are instantly set up and ready to work with your iPhone and Apple Watch. Advanced sensors know when you are listening and automatically play and pause your music. Using Siri, AirPods allow you to access your favourite personal assistant with just…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (433) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day four hundred and thirty three of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @emencher – Eric Mencher with this image. Please view more of their stunning images here.
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Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (429) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day four hundred and twenty nine of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @shelserkin with this image entitled ‘Luis‘. Please view more of his stunning images here.
