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  • 2013 iPhoneographySA exhibitions a huge suceess

    2013 iPhoneographySA exhibitions a huge suceess

    It’s been pretty quite around here over the last couple of months, because I have been putting the 2013 iPhoneography Exhibition together, which finally culminated over the last 2 weeks with exhibitions taking place in Joburg & Cape Town.

    This year was a phenomenal success with just over 2,500 images entered from around 650 entries. We had 250 images on display at our Johannesburg Exhibition and 180 at the Cape Town Exhibition.

    Joburg Winners
    Joburg Winners

    There were some amazing images on display in both regions, and selecting a winner was a seriously tough task. This year we had an amazing judging panel who sat for many hours before the exhibitions debating who the winners should be.

    Cape Town Winners
    Cape Town Winners

    All in all, this year has been an amazing success, and I would personally like to thank the whole team at iStore once again for this amazing opportunity to showcase South Africa’s best iPhoneography talent.

    Did you manage to catch the exhibtions ? What were your thoughts ? For more info on iPhoneography in South Africa visit iPhoneographySA.com

     

  • 2013 iPhoneographySA exhibition entries now open

    2013-iPhoneography-Exhibition

    It’s (finally) time again for this years 2013 iPhoneographySA exhibition, held in conjunction with MarcForrest.com &  the team from iStore. Following on from the huge success of last years event, the 2013 exhibition will take place in Joburg on the 31st October & Cape Town on the 7th November. Entries are now officially open

    This year, we going bigger & better and introducing a hand-picked Judging Panel, as well as some awesome prizes for the winners.

    An exciting  new inclusion to the competition this year is the Community choice award where the iStore Facebook community will vote for their favourite iPhoneographySA picture by ‘liking’ their picture of choice.

    As mentioned above this year we have chosen 5 individuals to judge the entries, and get a broader input from the community. We are excited to have Dean Oelschig, Liezel Els, Craig Rodney, Justine Darby & myself  selecting our final entries for this years exhibition. Read more about the 2013 Judges here

    Also on offer this year are some amazing prizes sponsored by the iStore team. The overall winner in each region will receive a Macbook Air, while each category winner will get a brand new iPad Mini. The community choice winner will also walk away with an iPad Mini compliments of their Facebook Fans.

    With excitement already building from the iPhoneography community in South Africa, we are sure this years exhibition is going to be a cracker, and we can’t wait to see the entries start pouring in.
    If you would like more info on the competition, feel free to pop us an email on [email protected] or visit the iPhoneographySA website for all the details

  • Talk on iPhoneography at Epson Develop Yourself Event

    Last week I got given an awesome opportunity to talk a bit more about iPhoneography in South Africa at the fantastic Epson Develop Yourself event, which was held in Jozi.

    The event centred around the launch of the new Epson Inktank Printers which are being launched in SA at the moment. The Intank system allows low cost printing, with refills only costing around R100 per bottle. Much cheaper than your standard run of the mill printers.

    The printers are also WiFi enabled printers which allow you to print photos at a fraction of the cost, using a specially developed iPhone app, called Epson iPrint. We also managed to go on a photowalk around the Arts on Main area in Jozi, and take some photos.

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    The presentation I did centred around iPhoneography, where it is in South Africa, and where it is going. I used the awesome Prezi to put together the presentation, and got some pretty cool feedback.

    Here is the presentation I did, would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below :)

  • iPhoneographySA in Cape Town a HUGE success !

    On Tuesday night we finished up with the 2012 leg of the iPhoneographySA exhibitions in Cape Town. The event was held at the amazing Roodebloom Studios in Woodstock, which turned out to be the perfect venue.

    We started setting up the venue on Monday morning, and because of the unique nature of the venue, we had specially designed hanging platforms created for the event. Our Curator, Inke, was a superstar in getting all the images hung up, and eventually on Tuesday afternoon, we were ready to roll !

    They event was a HUGE success, and I estimate around 400-500 people came through the doors on the evening. We had 120 photos on display, and I overheard many conversations about how impressed everybody was with the exhibition  The vibe was great with a DJ and a guy playing the trumpet and the food was amazing. All in all, I can honestly say, that I am super proud with the way the whole event panned out.

    The iPhoneography exhibitions this year, have FAR FAR exceeded my expectations with the both events producing amazing images & results.

    It was also a tough job trying to choose all the winners in Cape Town, but eventually we managed to get our winners. In 3rd Place, Robyn Hobson with here image Formal Friday. In 2nd place Lionel Botha with his very cool looking image, Cosmos. And in First place was Kobus Dippenaar with his image called Concrete Jungle.

    Some of the images will also be on display at the V&A Waterfront till Sunday afternoon, so if you in the area make sure you get down there !!

    I really want to thank the iStore team for the support & sponsorship of the events. The whole team went out of their way to make this a great event, and I can’t wait to see what we can come with next year !

    My goal going forward with iPhoneographySA is to try and grow the iPhoneography community in South Africa. We will be using this site & the iPhoneographySA Facebook page to grow the community, and organise events and keep up to date with the latest iPhoneography news in South Africa. Stay tuned !!

    A couple of people have given some feedback about the event here -> Chris, Robyn &  Sean

    Thank you to everyone who supported these events. Thank you !

  • iPhoneographySA JHB 2012 a HUGE success

    WOW. That’s pretty much all I can say about Thursday evenings opening of the iPhoneographySA event at the iStore in Sandton. I was blown away at how awesome the setup looked, and how many people arrived at the venue. I am estimating we around 600 people on the night, but could def well be more. All in all for the Johannesburg competition we around 211 entries from people, with around 850 images uploaded. On the night there were 211 images up on display. This year we decided to do all the printing through Printwild, and they all looked awesome

    We setup the event on Wed & Thur, and finally got down to choosing the winner for the event. After loads of back & forth debate, we eventually came up with the 3 winners.

    In first place (top left) was Zeno Peterson with his image called Reflect, winning himself an iPad. In 2nd Place we chose Tristan Winslow’s image called “A Lomo Camera with a Lomo app” and finally Liezel Els’s image called “Her Feet tell a story” who both won iStore hampers.

    The exhibition is up for the next 2 weeks at The iStore in Sandton Drive, get there if you can :) If you live in Cape Town be sure to join us on the 23rd Oct at Roodebloem Studios in Woodstock for the opening event, RSVP on the Facebook Event here !