Hi friends. I’ve ranted for years how mobile phone photography changed my outlook on a bunch of things…creativity born from constraints, the immediacy of the moment, digital sharing, the democratization of creativity, and on and on. As you may know, the ideals and the principle that ‘the best camera is the one that’s with you’ certainly captured my attention, led to my app, a book, a community, etc
But here’s a question: have YOU actually made any cool pictures with your mobile phone? If so, I want to see them. In fact, so does the world and PDN Magazine. So much is the case that the nice folks at PDN have put together a mobile phone photo contest called The Best Camera Challenge.
Entrance fee: $1/image, or 7 for $5. Enter as many as you like.
Categories: People, Places, Things
Prizes: an Apple MacBook for the Grand Prize and lots of other stuff for category winners. Winning images will be featured on PDN. (and I’ll laud you with praise in my social channels too…)
Enter here: at www.thebestcamerachallenge.com
You have one week to enter from today. Deadline is January 31. Details after the jump and at www.thebestcamerachallenge.com
Judges? I will be judging, along with the esteemed Jodi Peckman (Dir of Photography – Rolling Stone), Hali Tara Friehling (Sr. Photo Editor – Details), and Amber Terranova (Photo Editor PDN). Heck yes.
What are the guidelines? While the contest is certainly called The Best Camera Challenge, please know that’s only a reference to the idea that the best camera is the one that’s with you. As much as I’d hope that you dig my award winning iphone app Best Camera (and the slick new site we’ve been testing in beta for a while – check it + sign up), it has nothing to do with the contest. The contest is for any mobile phone. Use any mobile app or combination of apps. Just submit a bunch of cool photos that you shot with the phone in your camera. [Don’t be the kook who submits a shot from your Nikon D3 processed in Photoshop. Keep it real, please.]
What are we looking for? Think of the medium… The goal here is not to make an image that looks like you shot it on the world’s most expensive camera. The goal is to make an image on a mobile phone, capture a vision, a moment, a story. And to have fun doing so.
Go forth. You have one week. Please tell your friends.
When will the winners gallery be up ?
Blackberry fail….I have a sadface.
@Far, We’re you using the same account on to purchase on the iPhone, as the account you were syncing to in iTunes? That’s the only reason I could think that might happen. If it’s all the same account, just download it again, once you’ve paid for it iTunes keeps track of all that and you can re-download anything you have already paid for.
@Far – If you go to buy the app again, iTunes will tell you that you’ve already purchased the app and prompt you to download it, as long as you are logged into the same account that you purchased it.
Hey Chase!
Last night I entered the comp, It took me almost 30 min to summit my 1 photo, and at the moment of payment I saw that the website use it for payment is not a trusted one. Anyway I made the payment and now, this morning, when I woke up I saw a email from my bank here in Australia, saying that my credit card has been blocked as the Manager of Fraud Transactions detected something not usual going on?
Has anyone been in the same situation?
Chase love your photos!
Hopefully next time there’ll be a comp run by you guys.
Thanks
Gaston
Don’t worry – this is standard practice for banks if you are making “unusual” transactions. And small change transactions to foreign accounts count as unusual. The site has an outdated security certificate, but isn’t corrupted to my knowledge. You’ll just have to talk through any transactions you made with the bank, and it’ll all be cleared up.
Thanks Ben,
Finally I got my card to work again
Cheers