My DH and I went to the Great Millbrook Library Phone-ography Competition this evening to view our photos that we had submitted and see the other work on display. It was a wonderful event and we had a terrific time.
The director of the event thanked all of the participants for the photos being shown and then introduced the judges for the phonography competition.
The 2 gentlemen were art teachers from 2 of the schools in the area. They seemed to have fun judging the competition - and were surprised at the quality of photographs that our smartphones were able to produce. The playing field was sort of leveled because of the restrictions on the cameras and the editing had to be done on the phone. This made the "eye of the artist" really become the focus of the judging.
There was one point that one of the teachers made that I found sort of interesting. He said that since people are using smartphones more as cameras - posting instagrams, flickr, pininterest and so on - they seem to be looking at things that they would have previously just ignored. I think that's true.
One woman who had 2 photos entered is using instagrams as her "daily phone call" to her daughter. They share what they see everyday instead of talking on the phone or IMing. I guess it is a case of a picture being worth 1,000 words.
My DH and I had such a good time with this charity event. At the end, all of the photographs were raffled off. I got a beautiful picture of posies that had a ripple filter applied - very Monet like. My DH got a chicken in a coop with Warhol-like coloring. It made him laugh.
It was well worth the time to enter our photos. And more worth our time to support a local library.
Just great fun!
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