Instagram gets BIGGER!

Over the past year we have been seeing and hearing more and more about Facebook’s  photo sharing service, “Instagram”.  For those of you that are still slightly alien to service, the photo sharing service allows users to create a profile and share photos with other online users.  It allows you to follow other people’s work, like and comment on imagery and also allows us to enhance and change images through a range of preset filters.

 

2012 saw Facebook buy Instagram for $1bn (£616m; 758m euros) in April 2012. However, in December  things looked uncertain for the online photo sharing service.  New “T’s and C’s” stated that Instagram would have the rights to all imagery that we, the general public, uploaded to our own personal profiles and could sell them for a profit.  I’m sure we all remember Instagram hitting the headlines with this story, with users concerned of their entitlements and uproar in an online company profiting from our own imagery, but to be honest I wouldn't blame them for trying ... if it had been true.  Although the new terms and conditions were mis-interpreted by the majority of Instagram’s users, it is evident to see why anyone would want to share and sell some images.  I have been mesmorised by some of the photography and skill that is appearing on Instagram. Some of the imagery is so stunning and unique that to have it on a canvas or acrylic in your own home would be just the right touch.

 

I thought I would share some of my favourite “Instagram findings”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Instagram, Design, Photogrpahy, Art

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Images courtesy of my Instagram followers and Google:

thegoodly

ovunno

natego

beachlife7

withhearts

wisslaren

A unique view of our planet

Hi readers, 

Today I'd like to share with you a selection of photographs taken by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield that he posted on his twitter account. These landscape photo's that were taken from the International Space Station show the dramatically different conditions found across the planet.  

An image of the Australian outback and the redness of it's iron rich soil appearing more vivid from space.

Pakistan's south coast glittering in the sunlight.

A climate boarder created by a snowstorm in the southwest of the United States of America.

Finally the chaotic conditions of the Canadian east coast over land and sea are clear to see.

NewScientist magazine suggest these bleak landscape photographs resemble abstract paintings. I'm not convinced, but these images do give a very unique view of our planet. 

Thanks for reading.

Ryan Blackburn / Media Productions

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