Stop Press! Beginner's iphoneography workshop

St Paul's Church in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter


This is the final shout-out for my next iPhoneography Beginner's Workshop, taking place this Sunday 22nd April, at Fotofilia Studio in Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter (that's Birmingham UK, not USA). If you'd like to get creative with your iphone, but don't know where to begin, now's your chance, but you'll have to grab it fast as I deliberately keep the group small.

During the day, I'll guide you through:
* Getting the best from your iPhone/iPod Touch camera
* Choosing the key apps for processing photographs
* Developing your unique, personal style
* Sharing your images online with the international iPhoneography community

And, believe it or not, we'll still have time for a short photo walk through the photogenic Jewellery Quarter!

For more information, please contact Fotofilia director David Rann on 07743551900

Making An Exhibition Of Myself

JANUARY WALKING: OUT OF SIGNAL
shot and processed iPhone 3GS



PILGRIMS OF LIGHT: LAST ASCENT TO THE RED CROSS
shot and processed iPhone 3GS




TOUCH
shot and processed iPhone 3GS


Jo Archer recently asked me if I'd had any of my work exhibited and I'm delighted to report that over the last 12 months, examples of my iPhoneography have featured in five exhibitions in Germany (Berlin); USA (New York and Kansas); Italy (Milan); and here in the UK (Bristol). Three of the photos are posted above.

The first two were selected for the Royal West of England Academy Open Photography 2. Although I can't be absolutely sure whether mine were the only iPhone images on display, they were certainly the only two to be labled as such. Some of you might recall that January Walking: Out Of Signal was shot on New Year's Day, when I was lost, halfway up a Welsh hillside, and my iPhone was well and truly out of signal. The friend who we were with at the time has since assured us that he now knows the hill at the back of his house as well as he knows the back of his hand. The second photograph depicts a journey that we know quite well as we have taken it once for the last eight years. Pilgrims Of Light, Last Ascent To The Red Cross was shot during our last night at the 2010 Lyon Festival des Lumières, as we made our way up the side of the steep cliff that led back to our hotel in the Croix Rousse District.

Last Ascent To The Red Cross is currently also on display, along with Touch, at the Pixels At An Exhibition Show in Kansas. Touch was originally a screenshot of an erotic film clip playing on my Macbook.

Since last year, when my first iPhone collage tutorial was published in Somerset Digital Studio, I've had lots of requests for more. It's long been my intention to build a tutorials website but ill-health has led to it being a very stop-start project. However, I'm just begining to compile new tutorials and hope to roll them out over the next few months, possibly on a seperate blog or site as I'm also getting back to Digi-Scrapping and think there's a need to keep the two activities seperate and so easier to find.

Here's the photograph I'm currently writing a tutorial for





and here's a Hipstamatic shot of the view through my studio window, where I'm sitting now...







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The leaves that are green turn to brown

OCTOBER WALKING 01
shot & processed iphone 3GS


OCTOBER WALKING 02
shot & processed iphone 3GS

OCTOBER WALKING: THE OLD TRACK
shot & processed iphone 3GS

OCTOBER WALKING: THIS FAR, NO FURTHER
shot & processed iphone 3GS

This is my first post in over a month and the first one written from my new studio. It is everything I'd hoped for: there is (pretty much) room for everything and the space is light and airy but at the same time, a warm and snug retreat from where I can watch the seasons change as I work. This afternoon, twilight and raindrops are falling on our pond and clinging to the bare branches of the elder tree. To my right, I should be able to catch a glimpse of the hill, but shrouded in English Autumn weather, it has completely disappeared from view. A few weeks ago, I took a walk up there and shot the photographs that were the beginnings of the images posted above. The apps used were Toy Camera, PhotoFx, Iris and Photo Copier.