Mobile Photo Awards Blog

MPA partnership with LTD by Canvas Pop Announced

The MPA is thrilled to officially announce a new partnership between the CanvasPop LTD Program and the Mobile Photography Awards. Starting in January, 2013 CanvasPop will be featuring MPA participants in their weekly Limited Edition sales series. Just another great reason to enter the annual Mobile Photo Awards! More info on the CanvasPop Blog and [...]

Fine Art, The MPA and the App Whisperer

The App Whisperer is a media partner of the Mobile Photo Awards as well as one of the leading online resources for mobile photography and art. We recently had the occasion to speak with Joanne Carter, the publisher of the App Whisperer. We covered a wide range of issues with a primary focus on mobile [...]

The Architecture & Design Category

Our surroundings are full of beautiful buildings, structures, designs and patterns from the countryside to the city. The challenge here is to show the familiar in a new way, whether it’s a skyscraper, the pier on the beach or a shadow on a subway station wall. With mobile photography and a little creativity the limits [...]

The Abstractions of Erik Beck

The work of Erik Beck, from Sherbrooke, Quebec, attracts us for it’s originality and unity of vision. His work generally revolves around the discovery of everyday abstractions and their presentation through his lens as found art. In Erik’s world, paint splotches, dripping rust, bits of graffiti, or a splash of water become framed and given [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for May 20 – June 6 (PART I)

Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Showcase for May 20-June 6, 2012. We have two week’s worth of images to feature for this showcase and will therefore publish two separate posts to make sure we share all of our favorites. Today we share the first half – by the weekend the second post will be [...]

MPA/OlloClip Contest

THINGS THAT GO! The winner of the MPA/Olloclip contest by unanimous vote is…DAREDEVIL by Melissa Vincent – Congrats Melissa you are the proud new owner of an olloclip!!!     The Winner – Daredevil by Melissa Vincent The jury feels strongly that DAREDEVIL is a wonderful example of a good idea well-executed. The image is [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for May 10-19

Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase for May 10-19, 2012 This week’s selection features a range of entries from Mobile Art, street, self-portrait, even a karate jumper! The entries continue to raise the bar for mobile photography and art and we are thrilled to share this beautiful work with our readers. You will [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for May 1-9, 2012

Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase for May 2-9, 2012 This week’s selection features a wide range of entries from street to self-portrait, to mobile art and back again. We really like all of the work this week but wanted to mention, in particular, that we can’t stop staring at the striking Hurry [...]

The MPA Weekly Showcase for April 11-18

Welcome to the Mobile Photo Awards Weekly Showcase for April 11-18. This week’s selection features more excellent work from Michal Koralewski, a stunner from Paul Moore, mobile art from Olive Charlene and Catherine Restivo, a 9 image panorama from Safeco Field by Paul Marsh and much more from some of the bright lights on the [...]

Heather Craig on Curvaceous

Another entry in the Mobile Photo Awards StoryLines series Curvaceous was the winning image in the 2011 MPA Plants/Flowers Category My “Curvaceous” image was created about half-way through my 365 project–I was committed to taking, processing, and posting a picture every day for an entire year. It was late in the evening and I was [...]