Lately there’s been a lot of hype over the app instagram. An iPhone app that allows you to take and store pictures using a variety of filters as if you had different camera lenses. It also allows you to share and view other photos with other people and view those that are popular and highly rated. So, as these new instagram photos kept poppin’ up online, I couldn’t help feeling that they were the sorts of photos that d like to be able to take if I could ever bothered to buy and learn to use an SLR. Since I’d never got round to having the time or money, I thought this could be a nice compromise, considering I already have an iPhone.

A day out in London during the Christmas holidays that didn’t involve going to uni was a good chance to try it out. So I begin with some probably fairly random pictures of London, featuring the Royal Arcade and the Museum of William Morris Wallpaper.


Next I took some pictures of an exhibition of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly at an exhibition in the Halcyon Gallery. Pretty weird stuff.



I also went to the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and took some pictures there. I was really pleasantly surprised at that park. Although there were a lot of people it didn’t feel too overcrowded and there were so many areas for food and drink that you didn’t have to queue. Do wish some of the other German Markets would take a leaf out of it’s book.


Although I think I’ve taken some really nice pictures from my day trip, I’m well aware that my photography skills are greatly lacking and could do with a lot of work, especially when compared to what’s already out there on instagram. It’s really well worth a look. The question now of course, is what impact these sorts of apps and other photography apps like them might start to have on the sales of the digital camera. We already know the Kodak has suffered irreversibly from overlooking the potential of digital. I guess soon others such as Canon and Fujifilm are going to have to innovate or die…