A couple of "Honorable Mentions!"

For the 2013 Mobile Photo Awards "Travel" category,

two of my submissions made "Honorable Mention!"

One from Seoul:

Hyangweonjeon, or "The Pavilion of Far-reaching Fragrance,"

in Gyeongbokgung Palace,

is one of the loveliest spots in Seoul.

(ColorSplash app in addition to snapseed

used for both of these images.)

...and the other from the opposite side of S. Korea,

from the coastal city of Sokcho:

"Red Doors, Sokcho, Korea"

(Abai village neighborhood)

So, if you happen to be in New York City 

February 22-28,

these images will be among those on display

at the SOHO Gallery for Digital Art...

Check out the rest of the winners and runners-up;

so compelling, and all taken and edited solely with mobile devices.

It's such a thrill and privilege to know that a couple of my iphoneographic efforts 

will be on display with all of these great images...

first and recent; too much and then none

No postings last week--getting food-poisoning while on an out-of-town trip--not fun.

Back home now.

I was going through my iPhone's camera roll, and thought I would post one of the very first photos that I 'snapseeded' back in December:

...kinda went crazy with the tilt-shift filter.

It was my 'flavor-of-the-month' I suppose, and I wasn't as judicious.

Still, it's a fun way to focus on a person, 

with shapes rather than details of architecture in the background.

Also, the flat rainy sky--boring--so, saturation and blur

focus on the person, while still allowing the atmosphere of the place

to color the scene--

definitely a snapshot of a memory

rather than architectural documentation...

Here's the original photo, taken last summer:

It's a downtown scene in central Seoul, showing some of the skyscrapers in the background of the Deoksugung Palace. Originally built as a prince's villa in the late 1400's, this complex became the final residence of the last king of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). It's one of the best spots in the city to photograph the juxtaposition of old/new, east/west, ancient/modern...

And with anything historical, the temptation to 'go sepia' is great:

Snapseed doesn't have a dedicated 'sepia' filter,

but using the black-&-white filter,

and then using the 'white balance' function

within the 'tune image' filter,

you can get the same effect.

So, two different snapseeded versions of the same photo.

Now--a recent photo, close to home:--from the quirky mile-high mining town of Bisbee, in the Mule Mountains near the Mexican border in Cochise County, AZ:

225 Tombstone Canyon Rd.

Someone likes RED, eh? 

A façade of found objects...

No tilt-shift here--just some cropping and then warming up the color temperature a bit:

Gotta love the etch-a-sketch interspersed with the firemen's caps...