Welcome to the MPA Blog!
Welcome! This site is about the artists, images and all information about the MPA. At it’s core, the site is dedicated to personal stories. Stories about pictures, about artists, about photographic inspiration. We are more interested in why pictures are made than in how they are made. You will find the stories behind each of the MPA [...]
Cindi Hobgood on The Gentleman
I was walking down the street early one morning and saw this well dressed man standing outside a deli. I asked permission to take his picture and after a couple of frames I asked him to hold my umbrella to hide the distracting elements in the background. It was overcast so the light was beautiful [...]
Kert Gartner on Iron Man
This was a fun image to create. My friends and I were at Patricia Beach, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada last summer for the afternoon just hanging out and enjoying the day. It’s one of our favourite places to go and relax. I had just started messing around with iPhoneography on my 3GS, learning about the [...]
Tips for Better Landscape Photos with your Mobile Phone
In many ways, landscapes are the hardest kind of photography to produce with a mobile phone. Most landscape shots taken with a DSLR have the advantage of filters, depth-of-field control and ultra-long exposure times. Mobiles have none of these options. Yet stunning images of the natural world are produced everyday by mobile photographers. Here is [...]
ArtHaus Exhibit Runs From April 5-June 30 2012
The first Mobile Photo Awards exhibit will take place from April 5 through June 30, 2012 at San Francisco’s prestigious ArtHaus. The three-month exhibit will feature 50 framed and matted limited edition prints from our award winners as well as a set of images from our jury members. In addition, we will exhibit 10-15 pictures [...]
