These images were all made in the space of 45 minutes spent wandering the decks of the Russian research vessel Akademik Sergey Vavilov during an arctic cruise from Svalbard to Greenland and Iceland.

I love the spontaneity inherent in cell phone...

How many times have you wished you could quickly straighten lines in an image that have been distorted by perspective? Being able to control perspective is particularly important for architectural photography and it can be used to make stronger compositions in all images.

How...

When you want to make a mobile phone image smaller quickly, launch iResize. Why would you want to change the size of an image? There are so many reasons; to email it, to post it online, and/or to share it in social networks are...

Combining images of music with other images has added a rich new dimension to my creative life and thinking. I don't mean sequencing a soundtrack to a slideshow; I mean adding the graphic notation found in sheet music.

There are a number of forms of music notation to choose from;...

The iPhone app Touch Retouch performs the kind of stunning magic that first appeared in Adobe Photoshop only a few years ago. Adobe introduced this type of instant retouching based on pattern recognition under the name of Content Aware Fill. Now a similar technology...

You can use the app Liquid Scale to distort the frame of an image without distorting key elements in it. Like Adobe Photoshop's Content Aware Scale, this software identifies image elements that are most likely to be more important than others and distorts...

As far as magic moments go, few can compare to those fleeting moments when light streams from the heavens or wraps around objects, as if making visible some some divine presence. Kings and priests would pay dearly for...

When it comes to photography, you can do a lot with a little light. Adding light into your images offers many creative possibilities: add a sparkle to someone's eyes, make highlights shine, enhance an atmospheric effect, trace a constellation in the sky, render...

Splatter, speckle, and stain your images in seconds with the iPhone app Goth Pix. It generates surprisingly rich and...

These images were made in Mala Mala, South Africa during my recent South Africa Photo Safari (sponsored by NIK).

Apps used were PicGrunger and Snapseed.

Recently, during an African safari, I spent several days photographing animals. We saw all of the big five (lion, leopard,...

As part of my ongoing iPhone experiments, I've been making images with postcards included in the scene. I've been exploring the similarities and differences between the types of images found on postcards and other types of photographs.

Good postcards do certain things very well:...

Wow! Cool! Amazing! Fantastic! Beautiful! Great image! I love it! You can feel the love online -- on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, 500pix, BestCamera, and countless other image-sharing services, social networks, blogs, and websites. It feels good to give...

Finding it hard to choose between so many photo editing iPhone apps? Here's my short list of essential photo editing apps. Get these ten apps and it's likely you'll only buy other apps for specialized effects or participating in specific social networks.

Snapseed

Snapseed...

Stress can be good for your images. The analog materials used in painting and photography, often add rich textures that can enliven images. Throughout the history of art, drips, scratches, cracks stains, grain, vignetting, light leaks, fading, erasure and other analog artifacts have all...

Why should you have a smart phone camera everywhere you go? Let me count the ways!

To ...

- make a compelling picture
- record an idea
- remember moments
- share moments
- share news
- make...

Photography changed everything in the visual arts -- and it's changing again.

Photography advanced the objectives of representation. It provided extraordinary detail rendered with exceptional precision; never before had images looked so life-like. Photography did this so...