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I used to do these fairly often, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these musings. Sometimes, you bump into a quote that just puts it all into perspective.

Photographer/iPhoneographer Jim Darling recently shared this on Facebook. I thought I’d pass it along here. If I ever complete my photo book, this quote is going inside.

‎”Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera. Jimi Hendrix didn’t decide on the career of professional musician before he learned to play guitar. No, he loved music and created something beautiful and that THEN became a profession. Larry Towell, for instance, was not a “professional” photographer until he was already a “famous” photographer. Make the pictures you feel compelled to make and perhaps that will lead to a career. But if you try to make the career first, you will just make shitty pictures that you don’t care about.”

– Christopher Anderson

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The last long weekend of the summer is upon us. If, like Marty, you’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a nice climate year round that may not be such a big deal. But for those of us facing months of winter cold making us think twice about pulling off our gloves to take a photo it’s a disappointing affair.

Wherever you live I invite you to join me for a long weekend photo project. In honour of Labour Day the theme will be “Labour of Love.” (Or, for my American friends, Labor of Love.)

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I’m big on taking safety shots. Storage is ridiculously cheap compared to a few years ago. I’ve got plenty of room on my iPhone to shoot more images than I need. There’s no excuse not to shoot safety shots when the subject affords you the opportunity.

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Of Mirrors by Nacho Cordova

On Saturday, iPhoneography lost one of its brightest stars.

Nacho Cordova was an artist with a gifted eye. He was a teacher. He was a husband and a father. In all my contact with Nacho both direct and indirect, he was polite, respectful of others and gracious. Nacho was a good guy. He touched many, many people in his life as evidenced by the pages and pages of tributes left on his Facebook wall. Nacho Cordova leaves a void and will be missed by many.

Over the weekend, many iPhoneographers began posting tribute photos in memory of Nacho. Life in LoFi and the iPhoneogenic blogs present many of those tribute images here in remembrance of our colleague and our friend.

Nathaniel I. Cordova | October 22, 1964 - July, 16th 2011

Information on Nacho’s memorial service this Wednesday at Willamette University can be found here.

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Pixels at an Exhibition, Giorgi Gallery. Photo: Stacy Anderson

Cameras have been an option on mobile phones since the late 1990’s. By 2006, half of the world’s mobile phones had a camera… less than 10 years after their introduction. The mobile phone camera was originally included as a means to quickly share instant digital snapshots. I doubt that the mobile phone camera was ever envisioned as creating a new art form. But today, some of the most creative and dynamic photographic works are being shot and processed solely with an iPhone.

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Photo courtesy of MacTrast

Ahh, Spring. Time for renewal, allergies, baseball and iPhone rumors.

Recently, the interwebs have been buzzing (a little, anyway) about a comments made by Sony CEO Howard Stringer stating that Sony will be supplying the 8 MP cameras for the next generation of iPhone. I recently posted about it here. I still don’t think it’ll be called the iPhone 5, but for consistency’s sake I’ll call it that here.

Over on MacTrast, Frank Prendergast has written an excellent post “iPhone 5 – 8 megapixel camera a step backwards?“  comparing the current iPhone 4 5 MP camera by OmniVision to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc mobile phone camera.

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Bigger is better.

MoMoPhoto of Texas has announced the new OMEGA 1000, an APO 200-500mm F2.8/400-1000mm F5.6 EX DG Lens for iPhone 4. It’s almost like having a 1000mm Sigma for your iPhone! But not quite….

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UPDATE: Added source credit. =M=

ActiveDevelopment, the creators of new iPhone photo app Picfx, are behind a coordinated effort to spam the popular social network Instagram with an image promoting Picfx in an effort to give away 5 copies of the app. Although technically this does not violate Instagram’s Terms of Service (I read them. They’re surprisingly brief and readable for legalese), hijacking another company’s app to promote your own is ethically questionable. Asking potential users to spam a closed network is at the very least annoying, instrusive, and sets a bad precedent if unchecked. It think this “promotion” is just wrong.

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In case you missed this, TechCrunch posted this story today about what happens when Flickr deletes an account. Flickr Pro user Mirco Wilhelm was unable to log onto his account yesterday. When he inquired about the issue, he was informed that Flickr had accidentally flushed his entire Flickr Pro account — that’s over 4,000 pictures and 5 years of history.

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