…but, it was instagrammed.

Kicked it with some Instagrammers today. A good bunch of kids on the right track.

I went out walking the Springwater Corridor into the Johnson Creek area.

This is an urban bike path that occasionally winds through some wooded areas of modest seclusion. As with any such area, it draws activity of modern ascetics, societal opt-outs, and people who are sick of the forced illumination of sodium light. In the light of day, the residue of their existence leaves messages behind.

There is a walking path that branches off the bike route, a vein that connects different neighborhoods that are otherwise cut off by freeways and busy streets. This walking path has been fenced off by a private developer and owner of property used for a racquet club who hates the idea of people using the land for free.

Tension?

This piece of street art really caught my eye as something special. Good ol’ PDX.

I’m wondering what the best way to group vertical panoramas on social media. I wonder if a tag like #tallpano could get some traction? This was done with iOS6′s new panorama feature. I’m so happy it works vert.

You knew I’d love iOS6′s panorama mode, didn’t you?

The iPhone is the source of various photographical conundrums. Is it a legit camera? Is iPhoneography art? Is Instagram killing photography? Of course, I reject all those questions as meaningless. But, that doesn’t mean I’m never perplexed.

For example, I’ll be out in the field with my trusty M2 or Canonet, and I’ll come across something visually delicious. And, I will set up the shot and… click. But, perhaps I doubt my chops. I worry about the film processing. So, I’ll also take the picture with my iPhone. You know, just to be safe. No harm in a backup, right? Anyone would agree… But, in my eagerness to share, I may love the iPhone pic and burp it out to the interwebs. And, then that becomes the definitive image of the scene. First is best! Meanwhile, the film emulsion lurks and waits. Waits to be developed. But, in some ways it’s doomed. Even if it is superior, it will now retroactively be duplicating finished work. I will be plagiarizing the iPhone shot — which came not first, but after!

I took the above scene on some Velvia, using a milkshake cup as a monopod. But, then I took an Instagram. The Instagram is just wonderful. How will the Velvia shot turn out? It may never matter….

“The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a pack of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.”
–Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

As a followup to the last post about the Foldex-20. The viewfinder also pairs very well with the iPhone camera to make some striking “through-the-viewfinder” (TTV) images. These were made just by holding up the iPhone to the Foldex. Sweet!

Something for the collection.