The Phone Photography Project // Part 4

And I finally made it to Day 32! I deliberately decided to wait for this last set of pictures to include some of the shots from our trip to Switzerland and then Southern Italy. This project has been awesome. It has been great to capture so many aspects of our summer and to learn to give a bit more thought when using my Iphone. And I loved looking at how other people interpreted the same subject and their way of taking pictures. And lots of phoneography tips have now become a habit for me…so glad my interest in photography is surfacing again.
I’m planning to print both text and pictures and use them in my soon to come ‘Hello Summer’ mini book or maybe a stand-alone booklet. So many ideas are flying into my head right now…hopefully September will help me decide.

Day 25: Summer Shoes


“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.”  
Marilyn Monroe
Day 26: The Great Outdoors

“Study nature; love nature; stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” 
Frank Lloyd Wright
Day 27: Kids At Play

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Day 28: Lazy

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” 
Sam Keen
Day 29: Sky

“To see the Summer Sky – Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee.” 
Emily Dickinson
Day 30: Summer Reading

“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.” 
Henry Ward Beecher
Day 31: Green

“Front yards are boring. Backyards tell stories.” 
James Stevenson
Day 32: Quintessential Summer Shots

“People take pictures of the summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed.” Ray Davies

All the collages have been created using the Iphone app Fuzel.
Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #walktowork posts.

I am also posting my pictures daily in Instagram using the #BPCphonephotographyproject tag (click here to follow).

The Phone Photography Project // Part 3

Made it to the third week of this phoneography project and discovered that it is really worth taking a greater care when taking pictures with your phone. I got used to the idea that phone pictures are on-the-go pictures, the ones you take for quickly snapping some on-the-moment events, without caring about the light, the background noise, the composition. It is all of that for sure, but also a lot more. Phone pictures are not less valuable than those taken with your big camera, and a good shot is always a good one regardless which device you are using. Phone pictures are the ones you are more likely to share with family and friends and the ones that you will look at more often, especially if you, like me, only delete pictures from your phone twice a year. Not in a million year I’m planning to become a professional photographer, although that was one of my dream at some point in my life, but surely it wouldn’t hurt having a good collections of pictures to document our life.

Day 17: Far Away
“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”
Gail Tsukiyama


Day 18: Reflection

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” Ernst Haas

Day 19: Shadows

“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”
Johann von Goethe

Day 20: In Season

“In summer, the song sings itself.” 
William Carlos Williams

Day 21: What’s Cooking
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
Fran Lebowitz


Day 22: Routine

“Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always 
been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James


Day 23: Laughter
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.”
Maya Angelou


Day 24: Bloom and Grow
“The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.”
Hanna Rion

Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #walktowork posts.

I am also posting my pictures daily in Instagram using the #BPCphonephotographyproject tag (click here to follow).

The Phone Photography Project // Part 2

And this is part 2 of the Phone Photography Project at Big Picture Classes. The challenges keep coming in every day; sometimes I manage to shoot the right picture straight away, some other times I wait for a better opportunity. And this week has been a bit of a catch up exercise.

Day 9: Jump

“Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.” Mel Brooks

Day 10: Clouds

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore


Day 11: Change Your Perspective

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” 

Dorothea Lange

Day 12: At Play

“A little nonsense, now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

Roald Dahl

Day 13: Water

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

Loran Eisely

Day 14: On the Street
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”  Elliott Erwitt

Day 15: Summer Selfie

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” 

Euripedes

Day 16: Up Close and Personal

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.” 

Immanuel Kant


The picture for Day 9 was taken with PhotoSequencePro for Android using a Nexus 4. 
All the other pictures are taken with an Iphone 4S, using the phone default camera.
Filters are all Instagram.
Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #BPCphonephotographyproject posts.

I am also posting my pictures daily in Instagram using the #BPCphonephotographyproject tag (click here to follow).

The Phone Photography Project // Part 1

The Phone Photography Project from Big Picture Classes has finally started! For the next 32 days I will be taking a picture a day using my Iphone, to match the daily challenges set by the instructors.
These are the takes for the first 8 days.

Day 1: From Where I Stand
“Stand in the place where you live // Now face North // Think about direction // Wonder why you haven’t before” 
R.E.M.
Day 2: Initials
“Today’s show was brought to you by the letter A.” 
Grover
Day 3: Summer Project
“With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.” 
Kate Beckinsale
Day 4: Summer Food
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”  
J.R.R. Tolkien
Day 5: Family
“I sustain myself with the love of family.” 
Maya Angelou
Day 6: Tourist in Your Own Town
“The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.” 
G.K. Chesterton
Day 7: Morning + Afternoon + Evening Light
“Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down.” 
Jane Kenyon
Day 8: Summer Colors
“I prefer living in color.” 
David Hockney

All the collages have been created using the Iphone app Fuzel. The app is seriously awsome. I have been using the free version, which allows you to add some extra fitures through in-app purchases, but I’m thinking of buying the full version.

I am also posting my pictures daily in Instagram using the #BPCphonephotographyproject tag (click here to follow).