December 2011
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InstaCity: Berlin
InstaCity is a weekly blog series that introduces you to Instagrammers in different parts of the world. We’ll feature a new city, and a new group of Instagrammers, in each installment. We love exploring the world through photos, and hope you’ll be inspired to follow some of the users we feature here to learn more about the city they call home.
This week, we’re taking you to Berlin, Germany!...
November 2011
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How I Shoot: @pauloctavious
How I Shoot is a new series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process.
Paul Octavious (@pauloctavious) is a Chicago-based photographer who lives near a hill. It’s a hill just like any other, and yet Paul has managed to bring it to life through a series of photos, tagged #samehilldifferentday on Instagram. By capturing the hill at various times throughout the...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #middleoftheroad
Weekend Hashtag Project is a new series featuring weekly weekend challenges with designated themes & hashtags. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @jayzombie and look for a photo from her announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.
This weekend’s challenge was #middleoftheroad. There were some exceptionally creative shots and we were happy to hear that, while...
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The Week on Instagram | 2
With so much going on in the community, we’ve decided to bring you this weekly roundup, which includes blog posts, Instagram news, and some of our favorite photos from the past week.
Don’t forget to participate in this week’s Weekend #Hashtag Project: #middleoftheroad. Here are photos from last weekend’s #throughthefence project.
In the latest installment of our InstaCity...
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet @mauragrace
This is a new weekly series designed to highlight people sharing fascinating photos on Instagram. Every week, we’ll introduce you to a new person who uses Instagram to share a unique perspective on the world. This week, we’d like to introduce you to @mauragrace, who wanders the United States in her 1970 VW van. ...
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Instagram's Black Friday Holiday Gift Guide
CanvasPop
Has a friend ever asked for the original version of a beautiful Instagram photo you took so they could use it as the background on their phone? Have your parents been ranting and raving to all of their friends about how wonderful your Instagram images are to anyone who will listen? If so, CanvasPop’s Instagram printing addition is the perfect holiday gift! You easily can...
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Instagram Tips: Likes
Instagram Tips is a new blog series that will feature Instagram-related pro-tips every other Thursday for both novice and expert users alike!
How to like
Below every image there are “❤ like” and “💬 comment” buttons. If the image has a caption these buttons will be directly below this caption & if the image has any recent comments they will appear below those.
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Happy Thanksgiving
The travel, family, and dinner preparation photos have already begun showing up in our feeds and on the #Thanksgiving hashtag page.
To those who will be celebrating turkey (or tofurkey) day this year — we hope you have a holiday filled with delicious food, laughter, and wish you safe travels!
Photos by jsmnsfn, ashli815, pchastine, besarahmarie,...
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InstaCity: Chicago
InstaCity is a weekly blog series that introduces you to Instagrammers in different parts of the world. We’ll feature a new city, and a new group of Instagrammers, in each installment. We love exploring the world through photos, and hope you’ll be inspired to follow some of the users we feature here to learn more about the city they call home.
This week, we’re taking you to Chicago, Illinois,...
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How I Shoot: @safesolvent
How I Shoot is a new series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process.
Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Martin (@safesolvent). We first noticed Martin’s photos when he tweeted a link to one of his Instagram self-portraits along with a video he created to accompany the photo. Martin’s videos document what happens behind-the-scenes as he...
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Big Moments: Taylor Swift's AMA Win!
We’re always honored when users share important moments with us, and we love that Taylor Swift is sharing her life with her fans through Instagram, so we wanted to send a huge congratulations to her on taking home three awards at Sunday’s American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year!
Taylor has shared photos of her life on the road, lucky number 13 spottings, behind the scenes...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #throughthefence
Weekend Hashtag Project is a new series featuring weekly weekend challenges with designated themes & hashtags. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @jayzombie and look for a photo from her announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.
This weekend’s challenge was #throughthefence. We saw some fantastic images come in from around the world, and we’ve selected...
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The Week on Instagram | 1
With so much going on in the community, we’ve decided to bring you this weekly roundup, which includes blog posts, Instagram news, and some of our favorite photos from the past week.
The Instagram community is growing fast. In just 13 months, over 13 million users have signed up to share their lives through photos on Instagram. To highlight the fascinating people in the Instagram community,...
Decreasing Spam
Today we’re introducing a couple changes to decrease spam on Instagram. There are so many excellent and genuine interactions that take place in the comment feeds on photos, and we want to make sure those conversations aren’t interrupted by spammy comments. Now, when you post the same comment on multiple photos, you will receive a warning (red exclamation mark) indicating that your...
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet Serge (@serjios)
This is a new weekly series designed to highlight people sharing fascinating photos on Instagram. Every week, we’ll introduce you to a new person who uses Instagram to share a unique perspective on the world. This week, we’d like to introduce you to Beirut-based Instagrammer @serjios.
Hey Serge! Can you tell us a little about yourself?
I was born in Lebanon and grew up between...
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Photo Tips: Tilt-shift & Depth of Field
Tilt-shift photography typically refers to a process that’s employed using a special lens that has the ability to physically tilt for plane of focus then shift to adjust the position of the subject on medium- and sometimes small-format cameras.
Tilt-shift within mobile photography applications is often the process of selective focus in order to simulate a miniature scene, also known...
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API Spotlight: Banana Republic
We’re continually impressed with the many different ways brands use Instagram to visually communicate with their followers. To coincide with the holiday season, Banana Republic has just launched a new campaign on Instagram called the Ultimate NYE Party Contest, in which they’re encouraging users to share photos showing their party looks with #BRPartyLook for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid...
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How I Shoot: @takinyerphoto
How I Shoot is a new series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process. We’re excited to kick it off with Anthony D., who is known throughout the Instagram community for the candid street photos of New Yorkers he shares to Instagram as @takinyerphoto. In fact, he’s taken so many shots of New Yorkers that his followers have recognized friends, coworkers,...
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Inside Instagram HQ: Morning Commute
The Instagram team is based in San Francisco, California, and we love snapping photos of our incredibly photogenic city on our morning commutes into the office. Here are a few photos of what we see on our walks, bike rides, drives and bus trips to Instagram HQ every day.
Photos by amycole, josh, kevin, shayne, mikeyk & jayzombie.
We’d love to see photos from your...
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Occupy Wall Street Eviction
At around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement, who had taken up residency for the past 2 months in Zuccotti Park, were cleared by the NYPD. Photos of the empty park, relocated protests, and protesters reentering the park just a few hours ago were broadcasted through Instagram throughout the day.
You can read more about the occupancy in our previous blog post...
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#thingsorganizedneatly
Photos by dmp1985, julieblum, absentvividmind, nini_cb, ns0n, toppbrocales, colerise, taylorhoff, ploytanngam, maudemoiselle, grahamish, edroste.
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet Adam Senatori...
This is a new weekly series designed to highlight people sharing fascinating photos on Instagram. Every week, we’ll introduce you to a new person who uses Instagram to share a unique perspective on the world. We couldn’t be more excited to kick things off with Adam Senatori (@adamsenatori), a commercial pilot and photographer based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, who captured our attention...
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Remembering Our Veterans
Many nations around the world are commemorating members of their armed forces today. Here in the United States, November 11 is Veterans Day, while in Commonwealth countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, today is Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day).
Photos by nationalpost, weebdacat, missagc, juliacan, montrealgazette, suesthegrl, kerrs, ...
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2012 US Presidential Election Coverage
With the next US presidential election just a year away, news organizations such as NBC News, ABC World News and the Washington Post have armed their reporters with iPhones and set them out on the campaign trail, where they’ve been snapping photos of presidential candidates and sharing them on Instagram. The photos give us a behind-the-scenes look at the debates and town hall meetings held...
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Museums on Instagram
Don’t you just hate when you go to a museum and you try to take mobile photos of the incredible architecture, or a beautiful new installation (without flash, of course), and you promptly get scolded by a volunteer or security? We do too, which is why we love that there are a few museums, like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Brooklyn Museum, that allow photography throughout...
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US Election Day 2011
Today is an election day in the United States. Many Instagrammers are heading to their local polling places to vote and sharing the experience through photos on Instagram. Here are some of our favorite photos tagged #vote, #election and #electionday that we’ve seen shared today by voters across the United States.
Photos by rvillacarillo, sircooke, uriel1998, ...
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The New York City Marathon 2011
The annual NYC Marathon was this past weekend and we saw so many inspiring photos posted to Instagram of the 26.219 mile, or 42.195 kilometer, run through the five boroughs of New York City.
This year Kenyan athlete Geoffrey Mutai won the men’s event in a time of 2:05:05& Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia won the women’s race in a time of 2:23:15. Congratulations to all 46,795 people who...
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#onthetable
Photos by lindanguyen, mtossberg, ocarinaofrhyme, bexfinch, tinkerdell, gennefer, ikedeani, mel_smiles, tanukikung & paperlilley.
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Photo Tips: Combining Multiple Photos Into One
Have you ever taken several really great photos of a similar scene, or even portraits of your friends, and thought “I wish there was a way to upload all of these at once without overwhelming my Instagram follower’s feeds”? Look no further! There are several applications available in the App Store that allow you to combine multiple photos in one single image, such...
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A Round of Applause for A Round of Awards!
We’re happy to announce that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were recently honored with spots on Fortune’s 40 under 40 and Business Insider’s 25 under 25 lists, respectively. It’s been just over a year since Kevin and Mike released Instagram to the public, and in that time the Instagram community has grown into a network of over 12 million people...
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Video: An Interview with Instagram CEO Kevin...
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing this week to discuss Instagram’s international efforts and growing community, which now consists of over 12 million users around the world. Watch the full video below.
