Tag: Photography
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Selected for Photo of the Day on AMPt
The AMPt (the Advanced Mobile Photography team) selected my photo, Standing the Tests of Time, for Photo of the Day last week and featured it on their home page. I am honored! Here’s a screenshot of the week’s Photos of the Day as posted on Instagram. So which one is it? It’s in the upper right corner in…
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Photo Essay with Diptic
Photo essays are usually a series of pictures related by a theme or a place or a subject. I’ve experimented with collapsing the series into a collage. There are many tools that you can use for this. Fuzel Pro, Frametastic and Diptic are all great for this. For my purposes, I’ve used Diptic for a…
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Newspace Now 2013 Members’ Salon
The Newspace Now 2013 Member’s Salon opened last weekend featuring the work of 84 member photographers. It was for this show that I took pains to print, matte and frame a photo for the first time in 8 years. All the competitions I had participated in displayed the artwork digitally. It was great to stand next to…
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Experiments in Mobile Photography
My husband and I went to Ridge Vineyards last weekend to celebrate his birthday and enjoy the last days of summer. We found an open picnic table under an umbrella on top of the mountain and from this vantage point we looked over all the San Francisco Bay area. It was a wonderful mini-vacation. A…
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Insights from Mobile Photography on the Run
Lately, the path is not so clear. But the beauty that surrounds me everyday is and I am grateful to see much of that while out running. Running gives me the chance to know my body’s mind and sometimes the pictures I take on a run give me insights later on. In retrospect, this week’s…
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More Ruth Bancroft Gardens
Last weekend I visited the Ruth Bancroft Gardens in Walnut Creek, CA. The last post I shared a few of the photos I took of this amazing place, and there are more to edit. I found myself passing over the meta photos. Though they showed the beauty of the place accurately, I was more excited…
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Shaved Butter Magnolia Blossom
These gently curved iced butter cream curls of a magnolia blossom caught my eyes as I darted to lunch between laser hot shafts of sunlight. The best camera is the one you have with you and as a mobile photographer I had my iPhone with me. Happily, I made the decision to stop and make…
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IgersEastBay, Trey Ratcliff, and Google Glass on a Photowalk in San Francisco
I just returned from a Glass Photowalk in San Francisco organized by IGersEastBay (Instagrammers East Bay) in conjunction with Trey Ratcliff of HDR fame and Thomas Hawk. Wow. What a turnout. Over 1,000 people RSVP’d and hundreds attended. If you showed up and were over 18 and a resident of the US you could register…
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Digital Daguerrotype with Hipstamatic’s D-Type Plate
Hipstamatic‘s D-Type Plate is a daguerrotype-inspired black and white plate film that when combined with the distortion of the Salvador 84 Lens lends a unique texture and patina to photos: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson (@jenniferh2designs) I am in love with this particular photo that I’ve titled “Flowering and…
