While wandering with my iPhone we visited an antique store. A very cool place and it was photographers dream. So many cool and unusual items. Outside I found a basket full of gears and I did some shots. This one of the ones I like the best. Shot with iPhone and hipstamtic app and a bit of enhancement in Snapseed.
So I went away tho weekend and tried for the most part not to shoot with my big boy cameras. I concentrated on iPhone images mainly shot in the Hipstamatic app. Sometimes you just need to break the mold and do something different, try to see things in a different way and just have fun. The next few images are from this weekend and it shows just how much fun you can if you see and look for things. Today’s image was made of a wet tulip. I am not big for flower images as everyone can do one, but if you can do it a bit differently then what the heck. THe hipstamatic, a little work in Snapseed and the rain on the pedals make this image worthy of a blog shot here.
I always marvel at engineering. Like when you think of your iPhone, hoe did they figure out a way to design it so it looks cool and do all it can and make millions of then. Or step inside a nuclear submarine and think about all the wire and pipes and how they figured out where it all went and worked together. Amazing stuff. Look at this picture of hot rod engine. Just beautiful in looks and how it functions too. To think someone drew the idea out on paper originally .
It has been a rainy free days in Seattle. Typical. So, early Saturday morning I am in line to catch a ferry to Bainbridge Island and start my two day trip through ONP. I see the fireboat and ferry coming in with the pink in the clouds, hinting at sin some sun. Bam, got the shot. Color, composition, everything just worked for that one moment. The ONP is going to make a great location for an upcoming PODAS workshop this fall. Hard to take any photos yesterday as it rained the whole time and I mean heavy rain. I am about to head out the door with the Phase One IQ180 and ALPA set up and hopefully today get some decent images. Let’s see what I come back with.
Yesterday I had a number of meetings and afterwards I found myself in Snowqualmie, a small town 30 mini yes outside of Seattle. I usually photograph this magnificent waterfall there, but the government was redoing the damn and power plant there so there was no access. None the less I found a yard fill of old trains. It’s raining and not too pleasant, so I did not shoot with my big boy cameras. I got my iPhone out and started to look for rust and design. I found it. This is one of hundreds I shot. I like the whole iron feel if it. It had rust another favorite subject of mine . I messed with it a little in some apps to give an old kind of feel and thus this is my image of the day.
Ok, let’s get away from landscapes for a day. This is just a simple shot of a really nice chromed out engine in a hot rod type of car. Messed with it a bit on the ipad, but it just kind of works.
This image was shot yesterday. The building is the Carmel (indiana) Perform Arts Center or Palladium as it is known. It’s a big new building that is quite nice and very expensive. None the less I have fun shooting it. On the way back from the store I pulled in and did a quick pano with my iPhone. Assembled it and like magic with PhotoStream it was on my iPad. I then worked the image a bit in a couple of apps to come up with this. Just a fun day and a bit of fun time messing around.
Well I am back from Denmark and editing images and doing a lot of catch up on a lot of different things. I leave again on Thursday so I have lots to do. Because of my recent shoulder surgery I still can’t lift anything heavy so I was restricted to iPhone images on this trip. I shot with the iPhone, then with PhotoStream part of the NEW IOS5 of Apple the images showed up on all my other devices, I then edited the images on my iPad. This is one image from a whole bunch that you will see in coming weeks. This was done at the queens house in Copenhagen.
Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I am in Denmark the land of the little mermaid. It has been a very busy week at Phase One. I have been in non-stop meetings plus helping with Chinese visitors. All in all a very positive week with a plan for the next few years for PODAs and some other great things. I start home on Saturday and look forward to getting back. This will be short lived though as I prepare to leave gain on Thursday for ten days in Death Valley leading PODAS photography workshop there for Chinese photographers. Once I am domestic I’ll try to post on a regular basis. So, I am back. enjoy this shot. Taken on a very foggy morning in Copenhagen on Thursday.
Sometimes I just like to mess around and have fun. It’s not always about the perfect landscape, the chilly dawn shot or the angle. Sometimes it is just about taking an iPhone out because you saw something that looked good and shooting it. This is the headlight of a sports car. It looked good. Symmetry and balance combined with color. It was shot with the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone and then taken a bit further in SnapSeeed an ipad app. Oh, and it just is fun!