Creating

It has been lovely to have the time to be at home and work on photos.  Last Thursday I took my Dad to see Cirque du Soleil – Totem at The Royal Albert Hall.  The show was magnificent!  We went to the afternoon show so I got there early to take some photos of the area.  Then flew out to Italy with all the family on Friday to celebrate my Aunt’s 90th!!  My Aunt lives up on a hill on the outsides of Turin and has no Internet!!  So I had plenty of time on the plane and at my Aunt’s to edit photos too.
I took this one when I went round Kew Gardens and this was inside the Glass House which was all steamy and foggy!

This one is outside The Royal Albert Hall and it is The Albert Memorial

To get to The Royal Albert Hall you go to South Kensington tube station and then walk a long way in the underpass!  Wanted to try out Lomora2 so was really happy with this image (and he has a nice bum!)

The beautiful National History Museum – really pleased how this came out as took from a distance, had to crop it and use TouchRetouch to remove a van at the front!

I have not used TinyPlanets in such a long time and I love that app!  So chuffed with the results when I used it on this photo of The Royal Albert Hall! 

Resplendent Chiswick House

Took this photo with Hipstamatic as part of the Mobitog Hipsta challenge nominating a lens, film and flash.  Not particularly keen on the combination which was Tejas Lens, Ina’s 1969 Film and Berry Pop Flash.  For this photo I did not use the Flash.
I didn’t like the results of the Hipsta shot so I cropped the frame off with Crop Suey, I then ran it through different filters in PhotoToaster.  I wanted an edgy blurred effect and improve the colours.  That image I took into AutoPainter and AutoPainter II and ran about 3 different effects.  Took them all into Iris and blended them.  Once I was happy with the result took it back into PhotoToaster to add a frame.
Very pleased that it is featured in CreateHive today!

Here is the original photo :

If you want to participate in Mobitog’s challenges, you can find them Here

FX Photo Studio iPhoneography Show

I submitted 5 photos which were accepted to the FX Photo Studio iPhoneography Show.  The Show is currently being held in the Soho Gallery for Digital Art in New York.  Out of 10,000 photos from more than 1500 photographers 200 were chosen for the show!  This is the Article
And – 2 of mine were in the Show!!!  I was so delighted and honoured to be amongst so many truly wonderful and awesome iphoneographers!  My lovely friend and fellow iPhoneographer/Mobitoger Catherine attended the show and she was so kind to take photos of our photos!
My beautiful swan – Majestic Beauty.  Took this photo a few weeks ago at Gunnersbury Park

Welcome to the Abbey – took this photo of Westminster Abbey when I went into London to meet up with Rinkey and Jim

This is all just WOW for me!  Such a great feeling to be featured!

Street Photography

I joined a West London Meetup Photography group.  They had arranged a “crowd photography” afternoon, meeting up at the National Portrait Gallery.  I was the only one with an iphone lol!  I have never taken any street photography so was kind of nervous and scared!  I decided to take photos with Hipstamatic – Matty ALN Lens and BlacKeys film.  The weather was lovely and the Southbank in London full of people.  There is an area for Skateboarders and BMXers so spent some time taking photos there.
I joined a Flickr group called Shoot the Street and posted my photos.  I was so chuffed to be featured as Photo of the Day on 28th September, with this photo!
http://shootthestreet.com/post/10764222375/photo-of-the-day-bmxing-by-veevs3-vivi

Apps Uncovered from www.iphoneographycentral.com also has a Flickr group and on a Friday Nicki choosed 12 images to be featured in Apps Uncovered.  I took this photo on the Tube going into London to the Meetup – couldn’t resist taking the photo of these two women sitting opposite me!  They were featured in Apps Uncovered on 30th September

And on 14th October another photo of the day was featured too.  This one I took walking in the Southbank.

Went to an Instragram Meetup in London – where first stop was a small talk at the Apple Store in Covent Garden.  Took this photo going down the stairs and was really happy that this one too got featured in Apps Uncovered on 28th October!

I really like this Hipsta combination – wonderful effects and frame!

Where to Start!

Oh boy its been over 2 months since I blogged and I am loving iphoneography more and more every day!  Not to mention being included in several amazing Facebook pages and making so many new friends!  My style keeps changing and I love experimenting with apps, both in taking photos and editing them!
I belong to an amazing iphoneography community Mobitog – it started small and is run by the amazing Roger and Matt – both in the UK.  It is such a lovely community, several different types of weekly challenges and everyone extremely friendly and helpful!  If you are into iphoneography or starting up, definitely come join us.
I am so chuffed that so many of my images have been featured in different places!
Four have been in Pixels with Leshon being The Daily Pic on 30 October

There is a lovely little carousel in the Southbank in London and I was there with Rinkey and Jim a few weeks ago.  Took photo with Hipstamatic and processed it with PhotoToaster.
From the Other Side of the River :

I cycled to Kew Gardens one Sunday afternoon and to get to Kew I cross to the other side of the river.  On my way back the light was amazing and the view in the photo is of Old Isleworth (couple minutes walk from my flat).  Took photo with ClassicPan and processed it with AutoPainter, AutoPainterII and blended them all in Iris.
Summer Times was also taken with ClassicPan and processed with both AutoPainters and Iris.  Took this photo from Richmond Bridge – such a beautiful view.

Royal Doorway :

Went to Ham House a few weeks ago when I had a day off!  It’s beautiful!  Can’t believe I had never been considering it just up the road from Richmond!  Took photo with Hipstamatic and processed it with PhotoToaster.
More to follow!

Sidetracked!!

Lynne’s fault!  We were skyping yesterday and I was showing her some of the apps on my iPad and how to use them!  I tried out one of my hipstamatic photos and really liked the results!  So have been working on some of my photos with this style!  Most of the photos are of Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the London Eye and one from Windsor Castle.



Really loving this style, will be interesting to see how they print out!

On to London

Skipped Hampton Court as don’t have that many photos!  Buckingham Palace is open a couple of months a year so we had to be there for 9.30ish on Sunday morning as our entrance time was 10.30.  Even though we had tickets had to queue up to get the tickets and queue up again to go through security (machines just like at the airport.  And ……. NO PHOTOGRAPHY!!  What a shame!  But wow, if you are in London when Buckingham Palace is open you must go see it.  Tour lasted about hour and a half.  Hipstamatic Dali again for these photos!

From Buck Palace we had to take the tube to go all the way to Tower Hill to go visit the Tower of London.  Hyde Park Corner tube station was amazing with the amount of paintings on all the walls!  I didn’t have much time to take photos but definitely going back to take some more!  Here are the ones I took, again with Hipstamatic Dali.

The Tower of London – queued up to see the Crown Jewells, then walked around a bit and took the boat from there to Westmister Pier :

Tower Bridge :

The London Eye iPhone Style!

Continuing on with my photos from my trip to London.  I used ClassicPan to take these photos – it is such a wonderful camera app!  I’m stuck just using one of the lens effects – Vivid – so I must go try out all the other different ones!  I also then processed them with Snapseed, AutoPainterII, Iris, PerfectPhoto.

Just started using a great app called Diptic so made a couple using two of the photos :