ok ok, i know with my background in photography and photoshop i should not be picking up the latest iPhone and ogling over an app like Hipstamatic - but i am! - my poor Argoflex [see previous post] has not had a look in since.
the old Yarrabah cemetery with its white wooden crosses luminous against the sea of green grass overgrown
I actually find the Hipstamatic in a lovely way to feel a little analogue - in that you have to make your creative decisions prior to taking your photographic image, rather than Photoshopping after the fact from a master image with limitless opportunities. The decisions you make prior to shooting mean that you limit your ability to manipulate your image afterwards. This to me is a more exciting way to work... and then there is the square format - which i have always had a soft spot for - falling in love all over again...
and did i mention that I also find this the dream 'camera' due to the fact that it can be held and operated with one hand [while a certain twelve month old can be juggled with the other]... gold!
a few [of the many] images i have taken over the past month...
mission bay, low tide, when the water slips away and all is mud and salt...
tuning the eye to what lies beneath
the school bus stop
and here is the birthday girl celebrating her special day by taking in The Black Pram Project at Kick Arts, an exhibition which 'considers and probes perspectives on and understandings of childhood and children's lives and place in modern society'. Most apt...
and below, thinking on children in modern society, here is Dante's first photograph, taken on my iphone
and recently we took a little stroll around innisfail - and delighted in this art deco wonderland of the Far North...
