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See you on Instagram

I’m not really updating this Tumblr blog these days. You can find my photos on Instagram.

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Holiday lights with #lightbomber

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Looking to outfit your iPhone's camera with an external lens or two? Dave Johnson put five lens kits to the test to figure out which one reigned supreme.

Nice roundup. The Olloclip 4-in-1, for $70, gets 4.5 stars.

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From the Clearwater festival along the Hudson.

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The number of open positions in Apple's camera engineering group has risen dramatically in recent weeks, as the company looks to maintain its lead in an increasingly competitive mobile imaging market.

From an Apple Insider article.

The article, "Apple ramping up hiring to bolster in-house camera hardware, software teams," includes details about a number of job openings related to iPhone photography.

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Dotting the Parks, Monuments to the Famous or Forgotten

Really great Hipstamatic photos by Todd Heisler accompanying this story. The caption has this to say:

These photographs were shot on an iPhone with the Hipstamatic app, using a filter that adds vintage texture and tone.

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Apple Confirms Acquisition of Burst Photo App Maker SnappyLabs

It snapped up the whippersnapper.

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David Guttenfelder is TIME’s pick for Instagram photographer of the year. The veteran photojournalist is a seven-time World Press Photo award-winner. He has traveled the world for the Associated Press, covering wars, elections and natural disasters in over 75 countries. But in 2013, Guttenfelder, the AP’s chief Asia photographer, won over a new audience after he became one of the first foreign photographers to be granted the ability to work in North Korea. And he featured some of his most striking, intimate pictures from the Hermit Kingdom on Instagram.

From Time's announcement naming Guttenfelder as Instagram photographer of the year.

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New smartphone photography mag launched by British Journal of Photography

The magazine, FLTR, is iPhone-only: "FLTR is the first magazine to explore this new and universal language of photography, offering an unparalleled source of inspiration and technical know­-how."

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Wink to take photos with Google Glass

Yes, that's right: If you've got Glass, you can now take photos with a wink.

Whether it's capturing an amazing sunset on an evening walk, or photographing your receipt for the lunch you'll need to expense, you can now stay in the moment and wink to take a picture instantly.

As Google says in a blog post, this is just the beginning of winking as a way to control Glass: "Imagine a day where you’re riding in the back of a cab and you just wink at the meter to pay."

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Apple awarded patent for camera that lets you refocus images

Apple has been awarded a patent for a "digital camera including refocusable imaging mode adaptor,€" which sounds a lot like a Lytro-style camera that lets you refocus photos after you’ve taken them.

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Instagram film crowdsourced from 852 different users/photos

Really creative use of Instagram

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November First Friday marks an important anniversary: It’s been one year since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the east coast. During the “Super Storm,” photojournalists fearlessly covered the developments, hoping to capture photos so the world could understand the devastation. At the forefront of…

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Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business

One day last month, the seven employees of Everpix gathered at their co-working space in San Francisco to discuss the company's impending shutdown. Wayne Fan, one of the co-founders, opened a...

Really sad to see Everpix go.

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iPhone 5S review from Patagonia

This iPhone 5S beats out the 5 in every camera test and in many ways I prefer it to my DSLR. Sure it has its pros & cons… but for the first time ever, I didn't bring my Canon 1DX and I didn't regret it one bit. That's saying a lot. The quiet beauty behind the iPhone 5S is what I find most powerful. The upgrades they made here aren't ones that sell phones… instead, they focused on making the pictures better, even if it's silent innovations in features no one even knows about… it's not max megapixels or other flashy specs. The results are amazing and at the end of the day, people are going to really like the pictures coming from their iPhone 5S… and that's really all that matters!

Read the review.

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IDEO introduces Spark video app

Simple app for creating videos, adding filters, etc. Read more about it at Wired.

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How-To: Shoot Food for a Cookbook

Photos and Words by Allan Ezial

We joIned food-lover and photographer Allan EzIal In his journey of shootIng dishes with HipstamatIc for an upcomIng cookbook release. He’s captured these dishes in ways that make us drool. Maybe you want to document your own...