As one of Instagram’s new Android users I’ve been getting to know the service this week. And I’m not surprised it’s just sold to Facebook for $1bn.
As well as being fun and elegant to use, it makes sharing photos social in a way Flickr, for example, hasn’t managed to do.
Knowing you have an audience for your photographs makes you want to take more; it’s also an inspiring pin-board of retro washed-out visuals.
Instagram’s sale prompted Ben Jacobs on Twitter to note: “Kodak goes bankrupt and Instagram is worth a billion dollars. 2012, y’all.”
It’s a salient point to make and let it be yet another warning to all legacy media institutions.
Kodak could so easily have been Instagram. It had the brand, the following of photography enthusiasts and the capital. All it needed to do was realise the future of photography was not in propping up an outdated industry.
But it didn’t. And now it’s dead.
Angles.
A great photograph of my remarkable late Grandpa, Joseph Barbieri, taken in 1957.
It’s another reminder of how Kodak in some way defined the 20th Century, and why it’s such a shame its days are numbered.
Last weekend I was hanging out in Berlin with good friends Jimmy & Ed. Captured a couple of snaps of the sights.
These animated GIFs (or Cinemagraphs) are going to be everywhere soon. Dead clever.
Here’s to Fridays! Hope you have a *sparkling* weekend.
Source: blog.iso50.com
Autumn is here! One of the best things about this season is the colours and the less strong light, which makes photography a bit more purdy. Here are some pictures I took on an afternoon stroll on my favourite stomping ground in south London.
I shot them all on my trusty 550D and got The Gimp involved too.
Got this quick shot of the BT Tower yesterday evening while heading into town for a night out. Made perdy by Retro Camera, Android’s (free) alternative to Hipstomatic.
Although the light in the middle of the image looks like bokeh from the street lamp, it is in fact the moon!
Filmed an interview at the new Olympic Stadium yesterday - my first time on the site.
This is the stadium itself - just to the right is the aqua centre, and just behind, the Velodrome and the village.
Staycation
The recession means more of us are holidaying at home, in the shadow of nuclear power stations and the like. I spent a few days in Ramsgate in Kent with the family. It involved some standing on cliff-tops…
…messing around in boats…
…more boats…
…and looking at the nuclear power station.
30 days of creativity #5
Throughout June I’m taking part in 30 Days of Creativity where I have to create something new everyday for a whole month.
Yesterday I was in Regents Park, London, and got close enough to a squirrel to get this.
#30daysofcreativity
