Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

Yesterday, we (and just about every other news source) reported that Facebook is buying the popular social photo network Instagram. Many Instagram users are concerned with the changes Facebook’s ownership will make and with the privacy concerns of sharing their photos using Facebook’s terms of service and with the possibility of Facebook using Instagram’s data for marketing purposes.

Personally, I’m not one of them. I’m not going to ditch Instagram over the Facebook buyout. I already make it easy enough for Big Brother to track me anywhere, so I feel like I might as well enjoy the tidbits I get in return. If you don’t share my view, iPhoneographer Dixon Hamby has shared with us some of his suggestions for extricating yourself from Instagram and also serves up his recommendation for an alternate social photo network.

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Breaking News: Mega-social network Facebook has purchased mega-social photo network Instagram for $1 billion dollars in cash and stock.

It reads like an April Fool’s Day story that I might have posted a few days ago, but Mark Zuckerberg just posted the announcement on his timeline about an hour ago as of this writing.

“I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook….

“We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.”

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In the spirit of #FF Follow Friday on Twitter, I’d like to invite you to also follow Life In LoFi on our other social media channels. Here’s where and why….

Facebook

Like Life In LoFi’s Facebook page. On Fcebook is where we post a lot more app sales, freebies and giveaways than you’ll find on the blog itself. These are often discounts that happen pretty fast. If you’re concerned about Wall clutter, we don’t post nearly as often as Mashable does….

Twitter

Follow @LifeInLoFiBlog on Twitter. Find out as soon as new blog posts hit. Have conversations with me and other iPhoneographers 140 characters at a time. I also share cool links there that I find around the web.

Google+

Follow us on Google+ for notifications when new blog posts go live. Interact with other iPhoneographers who respond and share on Google+. Like Facebook, we also post news of app sales and discounts that don’t always appear on the blog.

Life In LoFi on Flipboard

Flipboard

Life In LoFi is featured content on Flipboard. If you aren’t familiar with the app, Flipboard collects all the things you like to read on the web and and creates a personalized magazine experience for iPhone, iPad and other devices. It’s a free download.

To add Life In LoFi to your Flipboard, from the homescreen click the search button at the top. Scroll down to Photos & Design and select the “+” to add the “iPhoneography (The art of the iPhone)” section. Life In LoFi also shares this tab with Instagram and tap tap tap’s blogs.

Flickr

Life In LoFi is on Flickr as well. Each week, over a thousand images are submitted to the group. Share yours and they may be selected for our weekly Faved On Flickr showcase.

However you get your LoFi fix, I thank you for reading Life In LoFi.

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Robert Buckley, winner of the IPC January 2012, Theme: WILDLIFE

The iPhone Photography Competition (IPC) has been hosted monthly on Facebook since November 2009, making it one of the longest running iPhone photo challenges. Mike Fendt created the contest “as I’m passionate about photography and I love my iPhone!” I’m still an admin of the group as well, but Mike handles the contests and day-to-day business.

Each month brings a new themed contest. Winners are determined by votes. The only prize is bragging rights and the winner gets to choose the next month’s theme. Currently, there are over 1,500 iPhoneographers and users in the group and it’s a diverse mix.

Here’s a gallery of some of the recent monthly winners in the iPhone Photography Competition. Recent monthly winners include Robert Buckley, Hannah Louise Henney, Fiona Christian and Bashar Alaeddin, To enter this month’s contest which is “Live Music”, simply head over to the page and submit.

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In the spirit of #FF Follow Friday on Twitter, I’d like to invite you to also follow Life In LoFi on our other social media channels. Here’s where and why….

Facebook

Like Life In LoFi’s Facebook page. We post a lot more app sales, freebies and giveaways on Facebook than we do on the blog. These are often sales and freebies that happen pretty fast. If you’re concerned about Wall clutter, we don’t post nearly as often as Mashable does….

Twitter

Follow @LifeInLoFiBlog on Twitter. Find out as soon as new blog posts hit. Have conversations with me and other iPhoneographers 140 characters at a time. I also share cool links there  that I find around the web.

Google+

Follow us on Google+ for notifications when new blog posts go live. Interact with other iPhoneographers who respond and share on Google+. Like Facebook, we also post news of app sales and discounts that don’t always appear on the blog.

Life In LoFi on Flipboard

Flipboard

Life In LoFi is featured content on Flipboard. If you aren’t familiar with the app, Flipboard collects all the things you like to read on the web and and creates a personalized magazine experience for iPhone, iPad and other devices. It’s a free download.

To add Life In LoFi to your Flipboard, from the homescreen click the search button at the top. Scroll down to Photos & Design and select the “+” to add the “iPhoneography (The art of the iPhone)” section. Life In LoFi also shares this tab with Instagram and tap tap tap’s blogs.

Flickr

Life In LoFi is on Flickr as well. Each week, over a thousand images are submitted to the group. Share yours and they may be selected for our weekly Faved On Flickr showcase.

However you get your LoFi fix, I thank you for reading Life In LoFi.

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Got Instagram? Got Facebook? Odds are if you’re reading this, you have both insanely popular social networks. The two just got a little closer. When you share an image in Instagram to Facebook, it now posts the full-size image to your Facebook feed/timeline/whatever.

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I haven’t posted one of these in a while. In the spirit of #FF, Follow Friday, on Twitter, I’d like to invite you to also follow Life In LoFi on our other social media channels.

Follow LifeInLoFi on Facebook. Links to blog posts as well as app sales and freebies are posted here. Often, sales and freebies that aren’t mentioned on the blog are shared here. If you’re concerned about Wall clutter, we don’t post nearly as often as Mashable does….

Follow @LifeInLoFiBlog on Twitter. Find out as soon as new blog posts hit. There, I also share cool links l find around the web.

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As always, I appreciate you stopping by. Thank you for reading Life In LoFi.

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iPhoneographer Fernando Gomez Larrea

Over on Facebook is the iPhone Photography Competition page, started back in November of 2009. One of the long-standing contributors to the IPC is Fernando Gomez Larrea. Lately, he’s been tearing it up in the IPC, having won both the April and May 2011 competitions.

Here is a showcase of some of his excellent works, including his two winning photographs.

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Shadows Walking by Lindsey Thompson

When I’m not writing for Life In LoFi or graphic designing at my day job, I also run the iPhone Photography Competition (IPC) page on Facebook. Every month, iPhoneographers submit photos based on a chosen theme. The theme for March was “Magic Hour” – sunset photos shot and apped using only an iPhone or iPod Touch. iPhoneographer Lindsey Thompson was the first runner-up with her excellent and ethereal photo, “Shadows Walking,” shown above.

Click past the jump for Lindsey in her own words. >>>

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Untitled by Laura Peischl, winner of the IPC March 2011

I also run iPhone Photography Competition (IPC) page on Facebook. Every month, iPhoneographers submit photos based on a chosen theme. The last month’s theme was “Connections”. The winner of this competition was iPhoneographer Laura Peischl once again, this time with her stunning photograph, shown above.

You may already be familiar with Laura’s work. Several of her images have been featured in LoFi’s weekly Faved on Flickr feature. She also won last month’s iPhone Photography Competition.

Laura’s work was also featured in the “Strada Stretta” Exhibition in which opened last weekend in Malta and runs through May 15.

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