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Photos is baked into iOS — it is the default image editor and one of the few apps you cannot delete. It is also the hub for all photos and videos across devices. Like I wrote in my iOS 13 wishes for the Camera app, Photos is powerful because of its
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I’m starting a new monthly feature highlighting my favorite photos I’ve taken with my iPhone. This month, I fell back in love with shooting in black and white. I never really used the built in filters in the Camera app, but my girlfriend sent me some photos using
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I use the built-in iOS camera dozens of times every day. It is just a couple taps or a swipe away from launching. Because of the simplicity to open, load and shoot, it is my most used camera app, and the most used app on my iPhone. As Apple’s
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King Crimson recently released their studio albums on streaming services — following a release of some of their live albums late last year. I always respected Robert Fripp’s decision to not make the catalog available, but it’s a good thing that this great music will be available to more
As someone who takes a lot of pictures with his iPhone, I love the ease of iCloud Photo Library backing up all my images and video. I don’t really have to consider it anymore. At a concert last night, I had taken several photos and videos, and thought: everything
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I recently presented at Kalamazoo Social Media Week. It’s a great conference full of local Kalamazoo marketing folks. It’s always fun to meet the people behind the brands we follow digitally and hear what works for them. The goal of my presentation was to give actionable tips for
Last night I saw The Musical Box perform their Genesis Extravaganza in Grand Rapids. I had seen the band perform a few times before in Cleveland where they recreated the tours of “Foxtrot” and “Selling England by the Pound.” What really set them apart from other “tribute bands” was that
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If there was one basic rule to taking better photos with your iPhone, what would it be? Over the weekend, I was listening a recent episode of John Gruber’s The Talk Show with guest Merlin Mann and the subject came up. The most basic rule of photography is to
I recently began a process of moving all of my websites over to Squarespace. For years, I’ve hosted on Wordpress and really enjoyed it, but as I’ve become more and more busy with work and other things in life, I’ve had less time to focus on the
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Here at Pocket Camera, I primarily focus on what you can do with the iPhone camera as it comes out of as box, but occasionally some apps are so much fun and unique that I have to share them. Fuzion is a photo editing app released this week by Leonard
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Live videos are a great way to connect directly with your followers in real time. Before the iPhone and social networks offered easy streaming platforms, it was cumbersome to get a live streaming set up, but now it’s as easy as hitting one button. As easy as it is
I had a great time attending (and reviewing) Gabriela Montero’s piano recital last as part of the Gilmore. Kalamazoo is fortunate to have such a great arts scene. And a classical music concert with improvisation, it was beyond exciting. I was reminded a lot of Robert Fripp’s description