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    07

    Jun

    Waratte*

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    Although I have lived in Asia for nearly 17 years, it was only recently that I had the privilege of visiting Japan for the first time.


    This past April and May, I spent nearly one month in Osaka shooting a commercial assignment for InterContinental Hotels.  The creative brief, by its very nature, ensured that I spent nearly all day and night inside a hotel.  My reprieves from hotel living were generally measured in minutes in the mornings and afternoons and a couple of hours in the evenings.


    However, even if only briefly, I relished wandering the streets in Osaka's bustling Umeda and Kitashinchi districts -- window shopping, people watching and generally observing the world go by during beautiful early spring days.  As always, my iPhone was close at hand, and I thoroughly enjoyed shooting a variety of street photographs of the places and characters I encountered in those fleeting moments.


    Simply put, I absolutely loved my time in Japan.  I felt a true affinity for the people and the nuances of the culture.  And for the first time in many years -- perhaps since I first visited Asia as a teenager nearly 20 years ago -- I felt a true sense of culture shock.  Crazy as it may sound, these feelings of isolation and displacement exhilarated me, making me feel alive.

    I am well aware that I only scratched the surface of Japan. But, honestly, it now feels like an itch that I can't seem to stop scratching.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.


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    *Waratte or 笑って translates to English as "Smile".

    One day, my client, my assistant and I were walking to a taxi and, as we walked past a building, I was struck by the light and the repeating pattern made by the pillars.  I stopped and lined-up a photograph, waiting for someone to walk through my frame. These three young women strolled by and -- just as they did -- my Japanese client called out "Waratte!!" and the young woman in the middle turned and looked directly into my lens while giving a little smile and wave.  This photograph is located in the top right-hand corner above.

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    01

    Apr

    A Day in the Life…

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    I was recently contacted by The App Whisperer, a website specializing in mobile photography and mobile art about contributing to their popular "Day in the Life..." Q&A with mobile photographers. Being a regular reader and big fan of The App Whisperer, I happily obliged and set out to answer the 21 questions, as well as compile 21 of my favourite mobile images to accompany the "Day in the Life..." questionnaire.


    I particularly enjoyed this exercise, as it is one of the only interviews I have done that centred exclusively around mobile photography.  Some of the most interesting questions explored my transition from a 'traditional photographer' to 'mobile photographer', my mobile photography and editing workflow, my sources of inspiration and where I see the future of iPhone photography moving towards?


    However, for me, the most interesting question was my Top Five tips for shooting mobile photography.  Perhaps this is because I truly believe this handful of tips can be applied across beginner or expert photographers shoot either 35mm or mobile photography:

    1) Shoot often.


    2) Experiment and push yourself outside your comfort level


    3) But at the end of the day try and remain true to yourself; if you are passionate about a certain type of photography, embrace it and go for it.


    4) Try to develop a personal photographic style, a unique signature, something that you can be known for visually.


    5) Look at other’s work and be inspired.  Share your own work with them.  Build and nurture that community.


    Please visit The App Whisperer to read my entire "Day in the Life of Scott A. Woodward" interview, as well as browse a larger collection of my favourite iPhoneography that accompanies the Q&A.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.


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    15

    Jan

    Zen and the Art of iPhoneography

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    I believe that photography is the most accessible and democratic form of artistic expression.  The ubiquity of digital cameras -- on mobile phones or small point-and-shoot cameras all the way to large, powerful DSLR or medium format cameras -- is making it ever simpler to capture high-quality images anywhere, anytime.


    But as most will attest, making great photographs has little to do with owning the best and most expensive equipment.  Personally, I believe that the real secret behind great photography is in how you see a moment and interpret it in a still frame, regardless of what type of camera you are using.  Are you able to make something ordinary appear extraordinary by showing it differently?  Are you able to make the viewer feel an emotion when they see your photograph?  Are you able to transport someone to a moment with you simply by pressing the shutter?


    I often find it hard to imagine what I did before I owned an iPhone.  I've shot more pictures in the past three years than I have in my entire life, making more than ten thousand photographs that I never would have ever created if I'd not had a camera in my pocket at all times.


    My iPhone has undoubtedly made me a better photographer.  As anyone who loves photography will

    attest, you cannot turn creativity on and off; amazing photographic opportunities exist all around us.  And an endless stream of imagery floating across my screen from photographers across the globe on Instagram and Flickr and Twitter provides me with constant stimulation and inspiration.  As photographer Chase Jarvis succinctly stated, "The best camera is the one that’s with you".  And my iPhone always is.


    As a professional photographer, I am paid to document my experiences around the world.  It is an amazing job, and I feel truly thankful and fortunate for my career and the opportunities I have.  But, candidly, it is so invigorating to visit a new country, enjoy the sights and sounds and actually experience the journey -- to be present and live the adventure, observing with my own two eyes rather than being concerned about capturing every moment through the lens of my camera.  This is the approach I consciously took on my recent holiday to Myanmar.


    I packed a camera bag full of Nikon DSLRs and fast lenses, which I dutifully lugged on six flights into, across and out of "The Golden Land", and only dug them out of their cocoon twice in more than two weeks.  It was refreshing, but more than anything else, it was liberating.


    Of course, this doesn't mean that I didn't make many

    hundreds of images.  It just means that I did it differently. Rather than actively hunting for photographs, I allowed the photographs to find me.  And I did it entirely on my iPhone. The result was a different kind of travel and photographic experience than I am used to having.  And I loved it.


    I once read that a camera is a great excuse to delve into a place deeper than we otherwise would.  I like this description.  Making an interesting photograph means we must observe our surroundings differently and look beyond the obvious to see something unique and special.


    I have always called my style “Choose Your Own Adventure Photography” after the books I used to read as a child. Literally and creatively, I can go one direction and discover a remarkable photographic opportunity; or I can go another direction and find something entirely different.  It is this serendipity that is the beauty of photography for me.  The 15 days I spent exploring and experiencing and enjoying Myanmar with my iPhone further validated this philosophy.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.


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    12

    Aug

    The Endless Summer

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    As adults, time seems to race past us, every year feeling shorter than the last.  There never seems to be enough time in our days, and as grown-ups we unfortunately have a tendency to mark the passage of time with such trivial milestones as rent payments, work deadlines and annual visits to the dentist.


    But as children it was different; school days passed in slow motion, Christmas Eve was the longest night of the entire year and summers seemed to last forever.


    I will be 38 years old this year, and I can still remember the summer holidays of my childhood in brilliant detail: eight glorious weeks filled with such carefree joys as waterskiing on the lake, building tree forts in the forest, racing my bicycle along muddy trails, staying up late in the tent talking with my brother and then waking up early the next morning to go fishing with him as the sun rose.


    I recently spent three magnificent weeks in Ontario, Canada with my family, including my three young nieces -- Carissa (5 years old), Brooke (6 years old) and Paige (8 years old) -- who were in the midst of their own joyful, carefree childhood summer.  It was magical for me to behold their boundless energy, marvel at their imagination, share in their wonder and indulge their curiousity.

    Like last summer, on this visit I again abandoned my DSLR and instead carried my iPhone with me everywhere I went with the girls, making snapshots of the experiences we enjoyed together: running through the sprinkler, riding a ferris wheel, building a homemade camera, taking a sunset stroll, picking flowers, eating birthday cake, climbing on monkey bars, colouring pictures, leaping off swings...


    This is a collection of those times we spent together, rendered how I chose to witness them -- inquisitively, spontaneously and lovingly -- through the tiny lens of my iPhone camera.


    Carissa, Brooke and Paige are too young to understand how ephemeral these times are.  Ironically, it is their innocence that provides me the perspective and desire to document, capture and preserve a handful of the fleeting moments that make up the endless summers of their childhood.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    07

    Jun

    @penguinstagram

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    Instagram, the wildly popular mobile-only photo sharing social network, is my favourite app for sharing my iPhoneography.  And although I enjoy posting my images on Instagram for my friends and followers to see, I enjoy even more viewing the photography that other people around the world are making.  I find it incredibly inspirational to see the places people live, work and visit and how they interpret these spaces, moments in their days and the people they encounter along their way.


    A few months ago I stumbled upon an Instagram user called @penguinstagram.  I was immediately taken with the imagery on the Penguinstagram feed, but what really caught my attention was how the photographs were coupled with extended captions -- in fact, passages from books -- helping the viewer actually visualize the literature.


    Upon closer review, it became clear that Penguinstagram's photographs were actually crowdsourced from the Instagram community, with the work of many different photographers exhibited on the feed, coupled with relevant excerpts from books written by Penguin Books' authors.


    Created for Penguin Books India by Ranadip De, Edwin Tam and Suhaimi Saadan from digital agency Futurist in Singapore, Penguinstagram is actually a clever, interactive marketing campaign.

    According to Ranadip, the creative challenge facing their client is that the printed word now competes against a vast digital landscape including videos, blogs, tweets, and other online news.  Futurist's creative brief, therefore, was to devise a campaign that would help Penguin Books India stay relevant to a digitally savvy audience with short attention spans.


    Futurist's consumer insights where that "humans are social animals -- or rather they’re social media obsessed animals -- who love consuming bite-sized web content on the go. And people visualise what they read."


    Thus, Penguinstagram was born as a ‘stealth’ social media campaign that meets these challenges and "celebrates the beauty and power of the written word, and the pictures they conjure up in our imagination."


    Uniquely, Instagram users can not only comment and 'Like' Penguinstagram's photos, but they can also collaborate on the project.  In fact, Ranadip recently contacted me and asked if I would be interested in contributing some of my iPhoneography to the Penguinstagram feed.  In the spirit of collaboration and community, I agreed.


    Alongside around a dozen other talented Instagram users, a handful of my photographs have appeared on the

    Penguinstagram feed so far.  It's been exciting for me to see my work paired alongside literary passages, often casting a different light on my imagery and giving new meaning to my photographs than perhaps I intended when I originally made them.


    I love the digital world we live in.  Our ability to connect and share (photography, literature) with like-minded individuals, whether around the world or in our own backyards, is a wonder of our modern time.  It is incredibly exciting that I can find creative partnerships anywhere. What's more exciting is sometimes they even find me.


    Browse my Instagram feed @scottawoodward or see more of my iPhoneography on Flickr.

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    19

    Jan

    Street Scenes from Sri Lanka

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    For years, I've talked of visiting Sri Lanka.  Although I'd heard only wonderful things from friends who had visited, it was just one of those places that I hadn't made it to. That is, until a few weeks ago, when I spent 10 magnificent days on the island often referred to as the "teardrop of India".


    I was immediately smitten with Sri Lanka: it's friendly people, brilliant beaches, beautiful scenery and gorgeous climate.  I wondered why it took me so long to come here.


    After spending a few glorious days at Apa Villa Illuketia, a remarkable 200-year-old plantation estate a short distance outside Galle, I headed to Apa Villa Thalpe, their sister property consisting of three villas on the beach overlooking the Indian Ocean, for another week of rest and relaxation.


    I managed to pull myself away from the seaside a couple of times during the week, when I headed into the historic town of Galle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, "one of the best examples of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and southeast Asia...and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers".


    I relished wandering the narrow streets and lanes inside the Galle Fort, admiring the interesting blend of colonial Dutch, English, Portuguese and local Sinhalese architecture.

    Having enjoyed so much shooting only with my iPhone in Goa, India just a few weeks prior, I set out to create a small body of street iPhoneography from my Galle meanderings.  The result is this small series of street photographs captured and processed using only my iPhone 4S and some of my favourite apps such as Phototreats, PicTools, Luminance and Pixlr-o-matic; I added the white borders using Lightroom 3.


    I posted this series of images to Instagram and, about one of the photographs, one of my followers asked me (only half kidding) whether I ever used my DSLR's to shoot anymore.  The truth is, the iPhone is so convenient, unimposing and powerful that I find myself more and more opting to take it on holiday, or out on personal photographic walks with me rather than carry my big, heavy Nikons.


    Clearly, my DSLR's will never be replaced by my mobile phone for my editorial reportage and fashion or commercial and advertising work, but for someone who is passionate about making photographs, the ease of having a camera in your pocket and with you always is second to none.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    20

    Dec

    Goa, Goa, Gone

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    Earlier this month I spent nearly a week on Candolim Beach in Goa for a wedding celebration.  It was a fantastic few days on India's southwest coast, spending time with old friends and making new ones.


    I arrived in India, packed to the gills with my Nikon DSLR cameras and lenses, with the goal of making a landscape or reportage photograph of Goa as a gift for the bride and groom.  I also had my brand new iPhone 4S in my pocket. No prizes for guessing which one went with me everywhere that week...


    The result was not one photograph of Goa for the bride and groom, but rather a collage of 18 pictures that I made on my iPhone over the course of the week.


    I presented this framed collage, created with the help of Adobe Lightroom 3, to the newlyweds last week.


    My Nikons never actually left my villa, proving (once again) that the best camera really IS the one that's with you.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    29

    Sep

    Khatna's Father

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    I spent most of last week in Cambodia with my filmmaker friends and frequent creative partners, Mike Rogers and Meghan Shea of Persistent Productions.


    The three of us were there to visit Sala Bai, a hospitality school for underprivileged youth in Siem Reap, as part of location scouting and pre-production meetings for an upcoming film and photographic collaboration.


    In November, we will return to Siem Reap for 10 days to create photographic reportage and a short documentary film about Sala Bai and the positive work they are doing for Cambodia's disadvantaged youth.


    For nearly a decade, Sala Bai has been training, free-of-charge, approximately 100 young people annually in the hospitality industry.  The school's goal is to provide the students with the skills and experience necessary to secure gainful employment in one of Siem Reap's numerous hotels, guesthouses or restaurants, helping them achieve economic independence and improving their quality of life, and those of their families.


    Sala Bai offers students four specific training programs: restaurant service, cooking, front office and housekeeping. The 11-month curriculum includes theory classes,

    practical training and internships at partner hotels in Siem Reap.  The students are supported by social workers who mentor them throughout their tenure at Sala Bai, as well as assist them in finding a full-time job after graduation. Remarkably, 100% of Sala Bai's students secure gainful employment in the Cambodian hospitality industry within three months of their graduation.


    When we return to Cambodia for our shoot in November, we intend to focus on Khatna, a young woman who recently graduated from Sala Bai and now works on the front desk at the boutique Heritage Suites Hotel in Siem Reap.  We intend to tell the story of Khatna and her journey, in less than one year, from Mechrey Village -- a rural floating community located on Tonle Sap Lake, where she lived with her pig farming parents and four sisters -- to working the front desk of a luxury hotel in the city.


    As part of our pre-shoot interviews and location scouting, we traveled with Khatna, by tuk-tuk and small motorboat, to Mechrey Village to meet her family and see their humble home.


    I opted to leave my Nikon DSLR's at the hotel, instead brining only my iPhone to document this informal family visit.  This series of Hipstamatic images (which I tweaked a

    little in post-production using Noir) are of Sovern Sorn, Khatna's father, who welcomed us warmly into his small wooden home, and then sat silently by the window throughout our hour-long visit, smoking cigarettes and gazing out at the passing boats.


    At first Sovern was reluctant to let me photograph him, but after showing him a few of the processed images as they popped-up on the screen of my iPhone, he opened-up and permitted me to quietly snap away.


    Our visit to Mechrey Village with Khatna was a highlight of our time in Cambodia, and Mike, Meghan and I are very excited to return to Siem Reap in November to get to know Khatna and her family better, as well as begin our creative project alongside the students and administrators at Sala Bai.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    16

    Sep

    SIN: A Singapore Instagram Exhibition

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    Opening this Saturday 17 September at the Singapore National Library Building is SIN: A Singapore Instagram Exhibition.


    With 'Singapore' as it's overarching theme, SIN will feature hundred of images of life in the Lion City as seen through the lens of 107 photographers using the hugely popular iPhone application, Instagram.


    In partnership with Instagram Singapore founder Ivan Quek, curators Goh Eck Kheng, Tan Ngiap Heng and Chia Aik Beng sifted through more than 8,000 Instagram pictures before choosing the 298 photographs that will be on display.  I am extremely proud that three of my Instagram photographs, 'Henna Hands', 'Painters' and 'Patriotism' will be exhibited as part of SIN.


    SIN: A Singapore Instagram Exhibition will be open to the public from 10:00am-9:00pm daily through Sunday 30 October at Level 8, Promenade in National Library Building.  For more information, visit the National Library Board.


    Are you on Instagram?  Follow me at @scottawoodward, as well as SIN curators (and extremely talented and popular iPhoneographers) Tan Ngiap Heng at @froggyappleton, Chia Aik Beng at @aikbengchia and Instagram Singapore founder Ivan Kuek at @phoneomenon.

  • COMMENT

    09

    Aug

    Majulah Singapura

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    I was just 22 years old when I moved to Singapore in 1997. I came here for a job opportunity, and I intended to stay just a year (maybe two).  I was a young, fresh university graduate, and I had my whole life in front of me.  Singapore was to be only a brief stop on the road to adulthood, a short excursion in Southeast Asia.  I had no idea that 14 years later I would still be here, nor that I would affectionately call Singapore my home.


    I am not sure when or how it happened, but somewhere along the way Singapore became special to me. Perhaps it was the melting pot of Asian cultures or the beautiful tropical climate or the close proximity to so many exotic destinations that made me fall in love with Singapore.  I can't really put my finger on one thing.  It's all of these things, and more.  But Singapore is not perfect.  Nowhere is.  As we know, love is not without its frustrations.  But we love despite the imperfections.


    Inevitably, Singapore has changed and grown, and as the years have slipped by, the city has expanded and the landscape has been altered so dramatically that sometimes I barely recognize it.  But no matter how many casinos or luxury condominiums or shopping malls or office skyscrapers pop up (literally overnight), wonderful little communities and tiny cultural enclaves seem to endure.

    I've made it my mission recently to seek out and explore something new in Singapore every week.  So far I've discovered a charming coffee shop in Tiong Bahru, an amazing vintage furniture shop in Bukit Batok, and a new restaurant at Dempsey Hill.  This week, perhaps I'll visit a photo exhibition at a local gallery or explore the small neighbourhood of Siglap.


    I feel like I've grown and changed alongside Singapore, and -- although I sometimes long for "the good old days" -- ultimately I feel that we are both better for it.


    Happy 46th Birthday, Singapore.  I hope to celebrate many more with you.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    22

    Jul

    Nieces

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    I recently returned home to Singapore after a wonderful three-week holiday with my family in Ontario and Alberta, Canada.  As anyone who has taken a flight literally half-way around the world will attest, Singapore to Toronto is a long way to go.  However, it is the special times I get to share in Canada with my family -- and in particular, with my three young nieces, Carissa (4), Brooke (5) and Paige (7) -- that makes the mind-numbing drudgery of the >24-hour flight worth it.


    Every summer holiday I endeavour to strike a balance between spending quality time with the girls and simply enjoying our (fleeting) moments together, with wanting to indulge in my photography passion and document and preserve those special times forever (for me, as well as for their parents and grandparents).  It is often difficult for me to find this equilibrium, as throughout our time together I am constantly witnessing wonderful scenes and catching glimpses of beautiful light and longing to capture these moments with my camera.


    However, this summer was a little different for me.


    As always, I lugged my Nikon D3x and an assortment of lenses all the way back to Canada.  Only this time, not once did I take my DSLR out of it's bag.  Instead, I used my

    iPhone, which was always in my pocket, to document at least one thing that we did together every day.


    This collection of images is the result of my iPhoneography experiment with the girls: our time together playing on the swings, blowing bubbles in the backyard, sliding into the blow-up pool, going on twilight walks, visiting with Grandma & Grandpa, exploring the museum, wandering alongside the train tracks...


    Like all little girls, Carissa, Brooke and Paige share similar interests: all things princesses, tirelessly singing and dancing and devouring story book after story book.  But, like all people, they have so many differences.  And it is their intense individuality that I think I love the most about them.


    These little girls literally steal my heart for those few days I am in Canada every year.  And then it breaks a little whenever it's time for me to leave.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

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    27

    Jun

    Oh, Baraquda

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    My iPhone is never far from my reach.  I love taking photographs with it, and inspired by the countless amazing photography apps and the addictive photography social network, Instagram, I am becoming even more obsessed with iPhoneography.


    Lately, what I've really enjoyed is taking a few moments to capture the same scene with my iPhone that I am shooting with my 'real' 35mm or medium format cameras while photographing editorial assignments and ad campaigns.


    This collection of iPhone pictures were shot using the Hipstamatic photography app and Instagram filters during breaks in shooting my recent Ei8ht magazine fashion feature at dusitD2 Barraquda in Pattaya, Thailand.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on my blog or on Flickr.

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    03

    Mar

    Elephant Flying Squad

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    Friend, filmmaker and longtime collaborator Mike Rogers and I just returned from an amazing adventure assignment to Indonesia.  We spent two days with the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Elephant Flying Squad, living in their camp at Lubuk Kembang Bunga Village on the outskirts of Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park while shooting an editorial print and digital video feature for SilkAir's inflight magazine, Silkwinds.


    According to the WWF website, "In 2004, [the] WWF introduced the first Elephant Flying Squad to Riau Province in central Sumatra, to a village near the newly established Tesso Nilo National Park.  It was a way to bring short-term relief to the intense conflict between people and elephants there and to create support for elephant conservation among hard-hit communities.  Because the region around Tesso Nilo is being logged so rapidly and the forest converted into agricultural plantations, elephants with no place to go are forced to wander in search of food, making farms and commercial plantations an irresistible temptation for elephant-sized appetites."


    The mission of the Elephant Flying Squad -- consisting of 11 mahouts and seven trained elephants (four adults, two youngsters and a one-month old baby) -- is to "drive wild elephants back into the forest whenever they threaten to

    enter villages.  It has proven to be very effective in reducing losses suffered by local communities near Tesso Nilo" as well as successfully reduced the number of wild elephants killed by angry farmers or scared villagers.


    Perched high on the backs of the giant pachyderms, and holding tight to a bare rope that wrapped around the elephants' bodies, Mike and I were fortunate enough to accompany the squad on a typical patrol through the Sumatran rainforest.  It was a magnificent experience to trudge through the jungle on the back of these majestic creatures and document how the Elephant Flying Squad helps preserve the wild elephant population in Riau.


    At the end of the assignment -- after my cameras were put away and while Mike wrapped-up his video interviews -- I sat with the 11 mahouts and their leader outside their small cabin in Tesso Nilo.  As we joked and laughed I pulled out my iPhone (which, amazingly, nobody seemed to have ever seen before) and, using the LomoLomo app, started to shoot a few portraits of the Elephant Flying Squad members.  It was a hit, and before long everyone wanted their photos taken.  This is the series we made.


    See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on my blog or on Flickr.

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    13

    Feb

    Instagramification

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    From dusk 'till dawn, I've spent the past week traipsing around Singapore shooting dozens of locations and personalities for two separate editorial feature commissions.  My photographic briefs are pretty standard for luxury lifestyle and travel publications: shoot a collection of stylish and sophisticated hotels, eateries and bars as well as the people who run them.


    It is always a pleasure for me to work on these types of assignments, but especially when they're in my own backyard.  I enjoy exploring and experiencing places in Singapore that I've never been before, and I love meeting the people behind them: chefs, sommeliers, managers, artists, designers and architects.


    As always, my iPhone is in my pocket throughout all these shoots.  And I love to pull it out and shoot with it alongside my "real" 35mm DSLR cameras whenever I see anything interesting or inspiring.


    My latest iPhoneographic obsession is Instagram, the popular iPhone app that allows users to add interesting retro-inspired filters to photographs and then share the pictures on Instagram's own social network, as well as on other social websites like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.

    I like the way the square format of Instagram forces me to compose images differently than when using my Nikons and their standard 3:2 aspect ratios.  I love the variety of filters and how they can transform the mood of my photographs.  And I really enjoy the simplicity and ease of the Instagram photo feed and how I can see the images my friends around the world are making on their iPhones.


    These 20 photographs were all made in Singapore this past week using Instagram.  See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on my blog or on Flickr.

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    29

    Jan

    Ransom Letter

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    The past few weeks have been filled with commissioned editorial assignments and commercial advertising shoots, which is great for business, but has left me little time for personal creative photography.


    Earlier this week, while on-set at the studio, there were a few moments of downtime as the crew and I waited for the stylist to finish prepping the model.  I was mindlessly fiddling with my iPhone and took a few shots of my illuminated laptop keyboard.


    This gave me an (admittedly peculiar) idea, as well as posed a small challenge for me: could I construct the URL to my website www.scottawoodward.com entirely from iPhone photographs of random letters that I encountered in the course of my day?  Silly, I know.  But it was fun.


    Well, it took me longer than one day; it took me three, actually (there are a lot of "W's" in there).  I didn't know what to do with it when I finished, so here is the fruit of my labour: my "iPhoneographic URL Ransom Letter".


    For anyone who's interested, I tried to shoot each letter using a different iPhone app (although I lost track and don't think I actually succeeded).  Counted among the shots above are Hipstamatic, OldPhotoPRO, ClassicTOY, MoreLomo, Phototreats, BlendCam, Gorillacam, Polarize, Format126, LENSES, Vint B&W, Retro Camera, ShakeItPhoto and HDR Fusion.

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