Owl on January 3rd, 2010

The Woods. iPhone collage., originally uploaded by purple0wl.
I’ve been trying Juxtaposer, a handy art app that allows you to make collages on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
You work with two images. One picture acts as the background. The other is the foreground. The foreground’s the active picture. Crop it, size it, twist it, move it. [...]

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Owl on November 1st, 2009

Phoenix Awaits the Bonfires , originally uploaded by purple0wl.
Bonfire night is bonanza time for the phoenix! Here he prepares for the Fifth of November. Well, the 6th actually. He will have to wait for the ashes from which he can rise again.
The image of the phoenix too has gone through quite a few resurrections on [...]

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Owl on September 27th, 2009

It occurs to me that people who do not accept the legitimacy of digital art are not asking themselves “Is it Art?” but “Is it Photography?”
Critics of  art works created in computer art software – Corel Painter for instance – seem to regard drawing as some kind of fairground trick. Regardless of the often quoted [...]

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Owl on June 1st, 2009

Many people complain that the iPhone doesn’t take very good photos in low light. I disagree.
I do have to concede, however, that the iphone doesn’t take very good pictures in the dark.
There’s a health club in the park land opposite my house. Once, I imagine, one of England’s Stately Homes, it has an imposing [...]

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Owl on April 30th, 2009

Sorry, but it’s very nearly impossible to set up the iPhone 3G to take a bad photo by mis-setting the settings. There aren’t any. Controls for speed, aperture, focus and other doorways to photographic disaster are non-existent on the iPhone 3G. All you’ve got is a shutter button and that’s it.
I did have a [...]

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Owl on March 17th, 2009

I’ve always been fascinated by tiny cameras. In days of yore, when I was working as a travel copywriter for British Airways, I had a state-of-the-art Pentax SLR.
Oh, but that camera was heavy!
I took to lingering by the windows of photographic shops, ogling the exquisite miniature SLR that Pentax brought out shortly after I had [...]

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Owl on February 20th, 2009

Photographer. (Pointing camera at X.) “Smile please.”
X. “Cheese.”
Photographer. “Good. Lovely. Er… Oh, wait a minute…” (Fumbles with camera.) “Funny. I could have sworn that button was the flash.”
X. “…Cheeeeeese…”
Photographer. “Can you move a little to the left.”
X. “Cheeeeeeeeeee… That enough? …..eeeeese.”
Photographer. (Scowls.) “Can’t you look a bit happier?”
X. “ChEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEse.”
Snap! The photographer takes the picture. Stares [...]

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