Hipstamatics only getting Hipper...

A few months ago, I wrote a post mourning the loss of my iphone, and with it the fabulous Hipstamatic app.

It seems I am not the only one to have fallen in love with this digital way of creating retro looking pictures. Now there is an exhibition devoted to the Hipstamatic photograph, at Orange Dot Gallery in Bloomsbury. I'm hoping to get a chance to see it... it's on til 31st January...

In the meantime, I was excited to discover a blog dedicated to the app, with a link to the website of the man who created it. It describes it's history - it really did exist as a camera and there is a sad story which goes with it. The Guardian thinks this story is dubious, but I wanna believe it... a sucker for marketing, me.

Lost not found

This blog post was gonna be featuring some dreamy pics I took in the park the other day, on my newly repaired Mamiya 6. Photos of my friends dog, sunshine through the trees, the new Pavilion at the Serpentine... the negs looked great. But then I left them on my desk at work; never to be seen again.

So instead, here are some dreamy pics from my holiday. Also taken with something which has recently disappeared from my possession; my iphone. I miss the iphone. But mainly I miss the Hipstamatic app. As a big fan of all things polaroid and olde, I believe this is the nearest digital technology has come to recreating the same feel. And it's so nicely designed...I especially love the colours and curvey corners...