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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Welcome and Second Challenge
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” Greetings everyone! Welcome to our second StreetWise Mobile Photography Showcase Challenge. The theme this time is shadows – to shoot street photographs that have shadows in them in black and white, color, or both. Capturing shadows can add an element of depth and visual interest to an image, they can change the mood, enhance the composition, create interesting patterns and shapes, or highlight a subject. Sometimes, the details that we don’t see by the presence of a shadow are more interesting than seeing the subject matter itself. There are endless possibilities whichever way you choose to include shadows in…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – First Flickr Group Showcase!
Welcome to our First Edition of our “StreetWise” Flickr Group Showcase. StreetWise is a column dedicated to mobile street photography and photographers throughout the world. Vivi Sacerdote Hanson and Sheldon Serkin are the editors of this column and will regularly review and curate work that was submitted to our StreetWise 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…
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Sheldon Serkin Joins TheAppWhisperer as a New Columnist for StreetWise
We are delighted to welcome Sheldon Serkin as a new Columnist to TheAppWhisperer. We have long been admirers of Serkin’s photography and he is regualrly featured in our weekly Flickr Group Showcases. Sheldon is heading up our brand new mobile street photography column entitled StreetWise. As our regular readers will know, we have a very popular women’s mobile street photography group entitled, StreetsAhead. This is uber popular and is edited by Cara Gallardo Weil and Gina Costa. We wanted to launch StreetWise as an open group for all mobile street photographers, whatever their gender. Serkin has been a mobile street photographer in New York City since 2010. In 2014, he…
