Its been on my to do list for some time now to create a little post dedicated to my growing pile of iphone snaps. From the fun of hearing the polaroid click and slide in the Shake It app to the delights of all the lenses and film types available with the ingenious Hipstamatic app…its pretty distracting stuff. As an obsessive photographer, I do have a confession to make – I’ve never been one of those people who can say they’ve carried around a camera with them since they were a kid. Not me. I’m either living in the moment – or I’m recording it on camera. Being or photographing. For this reason I rarely bring the camera with me on family excursions, parties etc. Not only does the camera create an instant barrier between me and everyone else, it also means I’m piling up even more image files that will sit in my inbox and make me feel guilty about all the editing that I’m not getting round to. However, there are times when I’ll be presented with a moment…a perfect moment…be it sudden and spectacular directional light, a field of dreams, colours singing, a graphic composition, a missing front tooth, a happy day…and its then that I feel the need for the camera at the ready. What better than the trusty  iphone, with all its oh so delightful and instantly gratifying apps. They even print out beautifully – if you stick to the smaller sizes. So for the past year I’ve collected quite a few little pics. Maybe they’re all very subjective. In fact, they are very subjective. But they mean something to me. Moments I’ll take with me. Beautifully edited, without me having to slave for hours over a hot desktop.

For those of you interested in finding out more, check out Photojojo’s hipstamatic guide It explains all you’ll ever want to know – or not know – about the multitude of lenses, film types and flash options. In the pics I’ve included here, most have been taken using the John S lens, and the film types are a mixture of  Ina’s 1969 film (rounded edges, off white border and a polaroid look to the image), japanese float film (a ttv effect – like looking through a dirty brownish window, with a speckly black border and rounded edges) and Black Keys B&W (monochrome with rough black frame within white border with date stamp).

Music chosen for no other reason but that it is from the beautiful soul that is Simone Felice, of The Duke & The King

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What more would you have it be,

With a turquoise sky above it,

Around it a sapphire sea?

A low grey sky, a purple moor,

A sullen surf, a beaten shore,

A glint of gold at the far sea-line,

A glimpse of heaven – your hand in mine.

~ Mary Starbuck ( circa 1911) Nantucket

As I find myself organising Summer 2012 I am increasingly aware of the dearth of pictures from summer 2011…apologies to all family members…situation now amended. I procrastinated in an effort to only work on the perfectly composed and most visually pleasing images…oh Doreen, for God’s sake just show us the pictures…so here they are…gloriously haphazard, some overworked, some underworked, some completely without any artistic qualities at all (Tony?…I didn’t say Tony!)…but all of them full of the life and the fun that filled the days on that beautiful island they call The Grey Lady.

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“Irish Poets, earn your trade,

Sing whatever is well made…

Cast your mind on other days

That we in coming days may be

Still the indomitable Irishry”

~ WB Yeats

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(Note: music might not be long enough for all the images so you may need to allow the song to play through twice in order to view all the images). Enjoy!

“[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’”    ~ Jack Kerouac  {On The Road}

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(Note: the music is not long enough for the images in the slideshow, so you’ll need to allow the song to play through twice in order to view all the images). Enjoy!

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Oh the delights of a day spent not at school…

but in the world of a small girl

who calls chewing gum “chingle”,

who has the dancingest feet

and the sunshiniest smile,

who polka dotted and jelly totted,

chit chatted and sing songed her way

through a glorious spring morning in the wonderful world in which she lives.

(Note: the music is a little low in this so be sure to turn up the volume…its taken me 3 days to find a song I felt was a perfect fit…so it must be heard!..enjoy x)

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He tends to ramble on a bit for the first 5 mins…but stick with it…once he starts on Oscar you’ll be hooked.

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Music ~ Apple Tree by Eels