Showing posts with label instagram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instagram. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Instagram: Share Your World

I hate to sound like a spokesperson for instagram but I guess I am. I mean I think it's a genius app for sharing your world in a creative way. And it's free! But I think at this time it may only be available for iPhones.

My phone is with me all the time so as I go about my day doing whatever, there are many things I see each day that catch my eye, not just as a photographer but also as a curious person. I love to be able to just pull out my iPhone, click away and share what I see in real time. I can post it to Facebook, flickr, twitter and a whole list of other networks or I can just share it with my instagram contacts. Sometimes just picking up my phone to see what other people in my network have shared that day, where they've traveled and what interesting way they've chosen to compose and edit their subject  is enough to cheer me up when I really need it or to inspire me and an make me smile as well. I have people in my instagram network who I know, and some whom I've never met or even seen but seeing what they see is almost like seeing another part of them. The pics I've included here are just some of the pictures I've taken in the past couple of weeks, things that caught my eye, that I think are beautiful, light or color or symmetry and reflection that I liked. They are very different than planned photography where I sit and compose carefully or arrange things to appear the way that I like. They are found captures. All I control is the filter and the frame.

Reflection on the Highline


Neighbors

Curtain

Rushing Home