Hipstamatic Americana: a nice change of pace for iPhoneographers


Hipstamatic released the Americana pack a few days ago. It’s free until next Friday. It’s a bit like Christmas in February, assuming of course you are an iPhoneographer. Here is how to get… Read More

Finally, a new Instagram filter has arrived: Sierra. iPhoneographers rejoice.


Instagram was my first iPhoneography app. Since then things have gotten a bit, shall we say, out of control. I rarely use Instagram now. I moved on because I got bored with the… Read More

If you blog you have to learn this: You can please everyone none of the time


This is one of the most painful realizations that bloggers inevitably have. It descends on you like a bat out of hell (as a side note: has anyone ever witnessed such?) when only… Read More

Fountain in New Orleans


Ingredients: 1. Fountain in New Orleans 2. Camera+

The fire escape {not in use of course}


Ingredients: 1. Fire escape 2. Olloclip wide angle lens 3. Camera+

The B-side


One thing I have quickly learned during my rather Crusade like march through iPhoneography is that volume typically leads to quality. I am not a trained photographer (I know this may come as… Read More

The fountain and the ocean


Ingredients: 1. A great view of the ocean and sky 2. Camera+

Below the loop


Ingredients: 1. The Chicago Loop 2. Sunlight 3. Camera+ 4. Rays

Foursquare: Why? (Checkout my check-ins)


There are tons of ways to check in at a venue now and a number of them are integrated into larger social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, G+, etc.) are very popular. But I… Read More

A view of NYC


Ingredients: 1. Cisterns on top of a NYC building 2. Magic Hour

Copycat


Ingredients: 1. Chicago 2. Window washer and associated signage 3. Snapseed 4. My best David Capponi impression

The Lego Project


So there we were. I was project manager. My right and left hand folks were pitching the idea. I liked where their heads were at (nod to @atltsx). It made sense. We had… Read More

The Old City Guard


Why don’t I have more followers?


“Why don’t I have more followers?” I hear this from people often when discussing Twitter. It’s not surprising. Checking my follower count is largely a self gratifying, narcissistic exercise. After all why wouldn’t… Read More

The brand


Ingredients: 1. Branded horse in a stable 2. Snapseed

To the Dads with Daughters


This last summer I was able to spend time with my daughter and it was very different from time we have spent together before. This may be because she has yet to reach… Read More

Art on a bridge


The diner


Ingredients: 1. Camera+ lens: Diane 2. Camera+ border: Vignette 3. Chicago 4. Great diner

I cheated


I don’t like it any more than you do. Christmas was coming. People requested gift ideas. I follow @ChrisCampTN on Twitter. He tweeted a link to this website and thus the great battle in

The VW


How to start a Tradition


If you knew me 10 years ago and told me tradition was a good thing I would have laughed at you. Traditions were for the mindless, the creatively challenged, etc. What my pre-maturely… Read More

The door with gold flowers


The mirrored lake


Ingredients: 1. Lake and Fall 2. Camera+

Merry Christmas


Merry Christmas to you. Mary and Christ at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit.

The Incredibooth field guide {aka: The booth guide}


Incredibooth has become one of my favorite iPhone camera apps because it fills a nitch that no other camera apps even think to slide into. The idea is really quite simple (& makes you  think, “Why didn’t I come up with this?”). In short, it’s a photo booth on your iPhone. Yes, a photo booth like you used to see in a movie theater arcade. “And how… Read More

The channel


This channel runs parallel to the Vltava River in Prague. Photo was taken with QuickPix and edited with Camera+.

Hotel Monteleone & Diptic: Part II


These views were captured with QuickPix, edited with Camera+, and composed with Diptic. The subject is of course the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. I have been drawn by it’s neon sign once… Read More

Art from the war


I have started watching Mad Men. One portion of the show which is entirely incidental to the whole but that I find fascinating is the artwork for the latest advertising campaign dreamed up… Read More

A view from under the bridge


This idea will change the world…if I only did something with it.


I wonder if I will have one. I wonder if I’ve had one. Could I have an idea that will change the world? Of course I assume this idea will somehow be pregnant… Read More

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