"This image is the first shot with my shiny new iPhone. Walking around St Leonards we ended up in Harold Mews and saw this lovely, punchy, red metal door. I grabbed a couple of snaps to test the camera. Then I found a neat little app called CameraBag and ran it, the particular filter crops, vignettes and pumps up the saturation and contrast. The neat thing is you have no control over the result, it either works or doesn't...

This image was a good start and I'm now really enjoying 'iPhoneography,' the limitations of a fairly poor camera and the restricted software I have on the phone brings luck into a process which all too often gets overly polished when using all the bells and whistle of DSLRs and Photoshop." Barry Reid

"I was out on the Channel Hastings summer picnic walk through Bedgebury Pinetum and visited the disused wood shed. It was very dark in there and I found it difficult to get any good inside shots without using a high ISO, which would produce a lot of noise on the image. I saw the potential of this particular composition as a natural triptych and was drawn by the vibrancy of the newly unfurled fern leaves. I set the camera on 2.8 aperture to blur the background and a shutter speed of 30th sec to try and retain some of the detail of the frame as well as keep the shot sharp. It certainly made the extra walk worthwhile at the end of a long days rambling." Lin Gregory

"Hastings tattoo artist Rebecca aka Madam Butterfly. Rebecca has an excellent local and national reputation with customers coming from all over the UK to her two tattoo parlours in town."

strobist single SB600 through ezybox triggered by CLS . Adam Piggott

Everybody is warmly invited to attend the next Channel Hastings Flickr Photo Vote and Meetup featuring all the entries from June's 'Film Titles' Challenge. The official vote is open to everybody and will take place on Sunday 5 July at The Cafe In The Park, Hastings. The voting is open from 12pm to 2pm and the winner will be announced shortly afterwards.
If you'd like to vote for your favourite photos or take part in future Photo Challenges, then please come along and join in the fun. Don't forget to tell your family and friends!

You can also drop by and say hello on Upcoming too.

Here's a 5-page PDF that you can download and enjoy the next time you're heading to the beach. It's a digest of our latest photos and news from the last week or so. Enjoy!

Mike and a Chameleon by Pedrokid"Here's just a little example of some of the shots taken on the second HotShots with Lomokev course. The course teaches you how to get the most creative photography from any camera that you are using. It may be a compact film camera or a DSLR but HotShots will teach you lots of fantastic tips and tricks to get you ‘thinking outside the box’ and improve your photography.

We still have a couple of places left on the Sat 20th & 27th June. The next course will be run over a weekend on Sat 15th & Sun 16th August. If you would like to find out more info have a look at the web page here."

Or if you’d like to book a place send us an email to info[@]garage-studios.co.uk

Garage Studios, Brighton

The St Leonards Festival always brims over with great photographic opportunities and this year should be no exception.

Here's the official blurb: St Leonards Festival Saturday 11 July 2009

The fourth St Leonards festival celebrates the rich diversity of our community. Local bands, vocalists, dancers, comedians and community groups bring entertainment to you from around the world. This is the first opportunity for many of our new local artists to perform in front of a large audience. 

All age groups can enjoy the day - there is an exciting programme in the children's marquee for the younger visitors; sports, skate boarding and Sumo wrestling for older children; a wonderful world market in Kings Road as well as entertainment all day long in Warrior Square, including The Real Thing, our headline band for all you real music lovers.

This year's highlights:
* The Real Thing
* The Swingin’ Elvises
* The Kytes
* Carnival Procession

"This shot was a simple one to take. I was at the fun fair in Hastings with my children and I noticed the sky was looking interesting above these swings. My daughter was already in the queue for this ride, so I adjusted the shutter speed on my camera to around 1/1000 of a sec and simply waited for her to get airbourne and took about a dozen shots. On loading the images onto my computer I particularly liked this shot because of the angle of the Carousel roof and it was a bonus to see my daughter top left, whizzing behind the boy who believes he can fly..." A Roving Eye

"Erica Smith is running the New York City marathon on 1 November 2009 in aid of the Sara Lee Trust, an amazing local charity that provides complementary therapy and counselling to people in palliative care.

She applied to do it because when she was training for the Hastings Half Marathon she used to imagine she was running around New York's Central Park. Parks like Alexandra Park in Hastings were very influential on the design of Central Park.

Please take a moment to sponsor Erica and you can read Erica's blog here." Adam Piggott

strobist info is SB600 through ezybox triggered by CLS

Round
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind...
Photo by Guinevere♥