Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge, 2013-Present

2016

August

Photomontage was added as a category for Challenger’s Choice during the 4th week of the month.

2015

Spring

Panorama was added as a category for Challenger’s Choice during the 4th week of the month.

May

After much deliberation with participants and readers of this photography challenge, a new title was launched: Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge. Guidelines to enter remain the same, which include a different theme each Monday of the month. The challenge pushes our creative energy and experimentation. Please join the fun. Happy mobile photo challenge.

 

2014

March

New Title: Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge

After much deliberation with the challenge’s photo community, a new title (the third change: scroll down to read more) was  selected for the challenge. It reflects the evergreen quality of photography with its bountiful possibilities for image making.

For the new badge to be placed on your homepage, you one of these URLs: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/844/x7dj.png/smaller version or http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/713/irgh.png/medium version.

February

To celebrate the first-year anniversary of the challenge, a few changes were made. Below you can view additions, which are in bold. The schedule shows themes used for each weekly challenge of the month.

1st Monday: Nature

2nd Monday: Macro

3rd Monday: Black and White

4th Monday Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Animals, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Objects, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel). (Animals and Objects are themes.)

5th Monday: Editing and Processing with Various Apps Using Themes from the Fourth Week (31 March 2014 will be the first challenge for this new theme).

2013

August: An updated description of Phoneography Challenge, the Phone as Your Lens

Since the birth of the iPhone in 2007 and thereafter the mobile photography movement, using a Smartphone as a camera has become part of our everyday culture. In early 2013 this weekly challenge was launched to celebrate a phenomenon that has burst its seams. Today the photographic tool kit has another piece of equipment: the cellphone, which makes shooting the unexpected more possible.

Those who use their phones to capture  visual moments are welcome to join the challenge. One of the benefits is participating in the building of a broader and wider Phoneography and Photography network. Personal enrichment is one of the major goals, because this opportunity is meant to encourage our most creative and innovative selves. Happy shooting.

Here’s how the Phoneography Challenge works:

1. Each Monday a theme will be posted. You can publish your entry at any time, preferably on Monday or by Sunday of the week of the theme. Please add any information about the entry (apps, brand of phone…).

2. To increase chances others will find your post, use “tags” such as iPhoneography, Phoneography, Post a Week, photo challenge, Photography, Post a Week, Mobile Photography, or the week’s theme. Also you can use comments, Pingbacks, and social media to spread the word. When you leave a comment on someone else’s challenge post, provide a link back to your blog. Then others can view your entry.

3. To receive a reminder post on Monday mornings, Follow or subscribe to sponsors at Sally’s blog (https://lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com) and Polly’s blog (http://Watchingthephotoreels.com). When you post your entry, we encourage you to provide a link back to one of our blogs where the rules can be reviewed. You can view links to other participants’ entries on Sally’s blog at https://lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com).

4. Place the Phoneography Challenge widget on your Homepage. Here is the URL: http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2458/1unb.png/

5. Each Monday view sponsors’ posts for additional information about Phoneography: innovations in the field, apps, equipment, rising stars, printed books, e-books, tutorials, and other resources. Read the Tip of the Week on Sally’s blog at https://lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com).

6. Here is the best part: The schedule is set, and allows you to plan. Or not. Every month themes remain the same. Here is the schedule and themes:

1st Monday: Nature

2nd Monday: Macro

3rd Monday: Black-and-White

4th and 5th Mondays: Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel

Mobile Phoneography allows us instantly to capture the fleeting moment. This technology has reinvented photography, creating the best of all possible worlds, where we always have a camera with us. Please join the fun and use the Phone as Your Lens.

June

Because the mobile photography movement has burst its seams, the challenge was launched early 2013 to celebrate its popularity—the popularity of the Smartphone as part of the photographic tool kit. Anyone who uses a phone to capture their world is welcome to join the fun. Below you can read about how it works. Simply substitute Phoneography for iPhoneography. Please use the current badge until a new one is created. Happy shooting.

04 February 2013

Lens:

Example of iPhoneography

Close up of a Single Blossom on the Cluster-like Geranium Flower, iPhone 4s, July 2012; © Sally W. Donatello and Lens and Pens by Sally, 2012

Pens:

The iPhoneography Challenge began on 04 February 2013. Please join Gracie, Polly and Sally, as we move forward with this project. Here are our links: http://graciebinoya.com  and http://watchingthephotoreels.com and me, which is where you are.

Here is our logo, which we hope you will post on your sidebar, and become a participate as we build a new community of iPhoneographers.

Here’s how iPhoneography Monday: The Challenge, Using Your iPhone as Your Lens works:

1. Each Monday a theme will be posted. You can publish your entry at any time, preferably between Monday through Sunday of the week of the theme. Please add any information about the entry or iPhoneography (apps, editing…) on your post. The challenge is meant to inform, learn, share and build a wider iPhoneography and photography network through participation and readership.

2. To increase chances others will find your post, use “tags” such as iPhone Challenge, iPhoneography Monday, Post a Week, iPhoneography Challenge, Using the iPhone as Your Lens, Photography, Digital Photography, Inspiration, or the week’s theme. Beside tags you can use comments, Pingbacks, links, and social media to spread the word. When you leave a comment on someone else’s challenge post, provide a link back to your blog. Then others can check your entry.

3. To receive a reminder post on Monday mornings, subscribe to sponsors’ blogs at https://lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com and http://graciebinoya.com and http://Watchingthephotoreels.com. You can subscribe through e-mail on each of our blogs or press the Follow button on the upper left toolbar. When you post your entry, we encourage you to provide a link back to one of our blogs where the rules can be reviewed. Also on the sponsors’ sites you can view links to blogs of other participants.

4. Place the iPhoneography Monday widget on your Homepage. Here is the URL: http://imageshack.us/a/img842/7193/1screenshot20121018at11.png

5. Each Monday view entries of the sponsors who will include additional information about iPhoneography: innovations in the field, apps, equipment, rising stars, printed books, e-books, tutorials, and other resources.

6. Here is the best part. The schedule for this challenge is set, and will allow you to plan. Or not. Every month themes remain the same. We are open to additional categories for 4^th and 5^th weeks, which are challenger’s choice. Just contact us. Here is the schedule and themes:

1st Monday: Nature

2nd Monday: Macro

3rd Monday: Black-and-White

4th and 5th Mondays: Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel

Gracie, Polly and Sally welcome ideas or suggestions. This challenge is for personal enrichment, and is meant to encourage our most innovative selves. The iPhone is a source for that purpose and much more. Think iPhone 6,7,8.

In the future there will be twists and turns such as Readers’ Choice Exhibitions or Guest iPhoneographers. Join the fun. Pick up your iPhone. Let the iPhone be your lens.