Much fuss has been made by professional photographers displeased with the democratization of their medium. Instagram has ruined photography, some have said. A camera in every pocket is less a blessing than a curse<\/p>\n
Into this hubbub come winners of the eighth annual iPhone Photography Awards\u2014 apparently determined to prove the haters wrong. IPPA is an informal effort to recognize the best in amateur iPhone photography; with a $3 entrance fee and only two requirements\u00a0\u2014 that the photos be taken on an iPhone, iPod or iPad and that they not be Photoshopped\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019s truly a photo contest for the everyman.<\/p>\n
That said, the winners have consistently been stunning: fields of glaciers, half-lit still lives, Technicolor sunsets. This year\u2019s winners came from 17 countries; the first-place photographer of the year, Julio Lucas, is a Florida-based art director and digital strategist \u2026 who incidentally happens to have a pretty cool instragram You can see his winning images and several of the others below; all of the winning images, in all 17 categories, are also available on IPPA\u2019s website.<\/p>\nVist Their Website <\/span><\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Independent Photographer Much fuss has been made by professional photographers displeased with the democratization of their medium. Instagram has ruined photography, some have said. A camera in every pocket is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-in-the-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t