December 2011
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Year in Review: 2011 in Numbers
We’ve seen the Instagram community grow from 1 million to over 15 million users in 2011. To celebrate, we’re recapping the year’s activity in our Year in Review series.
Accounts
1 million: The number of accounts on Jan 1, 2011.
15 million (and counting): The number of accounts on Jan 1, 2012.
Photos
3: The average number of photos uploaded per second, one year ago.
60: The average number of...
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Year in Review: Who Joined in 2011?
We’ve seen the Instagram community grow from 1 million to over 15 million users in 2011. To celebrate, we’re recapping the year’s activity in our Year in Review series.
January
NPR (@npr)
Celtics (@celtics)
charity:water (@charitywater)
February
Ben & Jerry’s (@benandjerrys)
March
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost)
April
The National (@ntnl)
Young the Giant (@youngthegiant)...
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Year in Review: 2011 in Photos
We’ve seen the Instagram community grow from 1 million to over 15 million users in 2011. To celebrate, we’re recapping the year’s activity in our Year in Review series.
January
New Year’s Eve
February
Super Bowl XLV
March
Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
April
The Royal Wedding
May
Worldwide InstaMeet
Osama bin Laden killed during American military operation
June
NBA Finals
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Weekend Hashtag Project:...
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. 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 theme was #collectionorganizedneatly. Each photo submitted to the project provided a unique and personal insight into the...
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The Week on Instagram | 6
News
Happy Holidays from the Instagram team!
The Top 15 Locations to Take An Instagram Photo
Get Involved
This weekend’s Hashtag Project is #collectionorganizedneatly. Check out last weekend’s #vanishingpoint photos.
Photo Tips: Combining multiple photos into one
Around the Community
An interview with Phil Gonzalez (@philgonzalez) by Bridgette S (@sippinlattes)
In How I...
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Featured Instagrammers: @ohsolovelystef &...
This is a 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 Stef and Erin (@ohsolovelystef & @ohsolovelyerin), the co-owners of a mobile vintage boutique housed in a 1956 travel trailer. They were kind enough...
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Happy Holidays
From everyone at Instagram - wishing you all the happiest of holidays!
Photos by jordanec, ryanedwardd, larissaloman, megcas, akent, purrdiaries, enovember, dadam108, lalaurenicole, karinaroberts, pparlor, missbriana, dviouskitten, smileycoco& lmvogel.
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Instagram Tips: Combining Multiple Photos
Instagram Tips is a series that features Instagram-related pro-tips for both novice and expert users alike! Check out the Support Center, help.instagram.com, for more tips & help for Instagram.
Though we’ve blogged about combining photos in the past, it’s one of the more common questions the Community Team here at Instagram encounters. Everyone loves combining photos! It can be...
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How I Shoot: @komeda
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process.
Philip Park (@komeda) is a Korea-based photographer whose photos of Seoul manage to capture solitude in the otherwise bustling city. We wanted to find out more about how Philip goes about shooting photos of Seoul, and he was kind enough to share his story with us.
Hi Philip! Can you tell us a...
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Year in Review: Top 15 Places to Take An Instagram...
We’ve seen the Instagram community grow from 1 million to over 15 million users in 2011. To celebrate, we’re recapping the year’s activity in our Year in Review series. To kick things off, here are the 15 most popular places where Instagram photos were taken in 2011!
1. Disneyland
by lishieswishes
2. Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK)
by tanyh
3. AT&T Park
by...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #vanishingpoint
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. 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 theme was #vanishingpoint. Each photo submitted to the project provided an incredible perspective! Every Monday we...
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The Week on Instagram | 5
Around the Community
In How I Shoot, Dan Cole (@dankhole) shows us how to find beauty in ordinary objects
An interview with Christina Nordam Andersen (@cirkeline) by Alessio Castaldo (@aleesio)
Two long-lost family members reunite through Instagram
Introducing the Mobile Photo Group
Get Involved
This weekend’s Hashtag Project is #vanishingpoint. Check out photos from last...
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Photo Tips: Light Bokeh
It’s that wonderful time of year when lights are twinkling in every city and suburb in preparation for the holidays! One way to transform your photographs of these festive lights is through a unique photography aesthetic called bokeh.
What is bokeh?
The word “bokeh” is a derivative of the Japanese word boke, which means “blur”. In photography this refers to the...
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How I Shoot: @dankhole
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process.
Dan Cole (@dankhole) is a photographer from the Seattle area who has a knack for injecting mystery into his subjects, helping us see something different in everyday objects. We wanted to find out how Dan nurtures this element of transformation in his photography, and he was kind enough to share his...
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Featured: Mobile Photo Group
Earlier this year, a group of mobile photographers got together to form the Mobile Photo Group, an international collective of 11 photographers dedicated to promoting their work and presenting mobile photography as an important and evolving form of photography. It just so happens that some of the members of this group have taken to Instagram as a way to share their work.
MPG member Misho...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #longshadows
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. 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 theme was #longshadows. The directions were to capture elongated shadows cast by obstructed light, and the...
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SantaCon 2011
A flash mob of Santas took to the streets of New York & San Francisco yesterday for SantaCon. According to SantaCon NYC, “Santacon is a non-denominational, non-commercial, non-political and non-sensical Santa Claus convention that occurs once a year for absolutely no reason.” Looking at the photos shared with Instagram through the #santacon tag, participants spread lots of cheer...
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The Week on Instagram | 4
Around the Community
Meet Serdar (@trashhand), this week’s featured Instagrammer
Get to know the Hong Kong Instagram community
In this week’s How I Shoot, @pketron shares her secrets to capturing symmetry in any scene
Over 60 Bay Area Instagrammers met up for a holiday photo walk in San Francisco
Get Involved
Snap photos of shadows and tag them #longshadows for this...
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet Serdar (@trashhand)
This is a 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 Serdar (@trashhand), an Instagrammer based in Chicago who’s just as comfortable shooting between skyscrapers as he is venturing out of the city to...
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Around the Web: December 9, 2011
Ars Technica explores whether the iPhone 4S can replace a “real” digital camera in these side by side comparisons.
iPhoneArt.com announces the 2011 Mobile Art Grant is now open for submissions. The grant recipient will receive $1000 to help further his/her mobile art career!
Purdue College of Liberal Arts senior, Ashley Landers, teaches a well-attended crash course on mobile...
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Instagram Tips: Comments
Instagram Tips is a series that will feature Instagram-related pro-tips for both novice and expert users alike! Each section header links to Instagram’s Support Center, help.instagram.com, for more detailed information.
Comment notifications
You will receive a comment notification in the News tab when someone comments on one of your photos or mentions your username in a comment on...
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We're the 2011 App Store iPhone App of the Year!
We are excited to announce that Instagram has been selected by Apple as the App Store Rewind 2011 iPhone App of the Year! We are honored to have been chosen and wanted to take this opportunity to recognize the importance of our passionate and dedicated community. Over the past year, this community has grown to over 14 million users, together posting 400 million images from around the world.
We...
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InstaCity: Hong Kong
InstaCity is a 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 Hong Kong! There’s an...
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How I Shoot: @pketron
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process.
Pei Ketron (@pketron) is a San Francisco-based photographer whose symmetrical compositions of everything from escalators to tombstones have caught our eye. We wanted to find out what’s involved in shooting photos that are so perfectly centered, and Pei was kind enough to share some of her tips...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #flyflyaway
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 theme was #flyflyaway. The directions were to capture something mid-flight and the creativity that resulted from...
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The Week on Instagram | 3
Around the Community
Meet @whitjohns, an expat teacher in Norway who takes beautiful photos of the Norwegian countryside
We featured Instagrammers in Berlin in this week’s InstaCity
Check out Keepsy’s interview with street photographer Hai Nguyen (@xxxyxyz)
A look at Michael Lesmana’s (@mlesmana) photos from Indonesia
In this week’s How I Shoot, we get to...
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet @whitjohns
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 @whitjohns, an American currently living in Norway and sharing her beautiful photos of the Norwegian countryside with us on Instagram.
Your Instagram...
Around the Web: December 2, 2011
Video: Annie Leibovitz recommends the iPhone as a point and shoot camera.
News: The New York Times reports on lenses that can turn your camera phone into a semi-professional camera.
Event: Bay Area photography gallery, The Light Room, will be hosting a mobile phone photography show now through January 6th.
Other: Seen in the image above, ADR Studio has created a concept device...
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Photo Tips: Tap to Focus
A common mistake easily made in photography, especially when the medium is as instant and effortless as mobile photography, is placing focus on the wrong part of the composition. Though common, it can be easily fixed with the tap to focus feature built in to most camera-enabled applications on the iPhone, including Instagram!
Why is tapping to focus on your subject important, especially when the...
