February 2012
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January 2012
30 posts
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How I Shoot: Jeera's Tips for Shooting in Traffic
Camera: iPhone 4
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking processes. This week, @jeera shares his tips for shooting photos in London traffic!
Vantage Point: I’d been wandering through the streets around Trafalgar Square in London, searching for interesting views while dodging traffic. Whitehall Street with Big Ben against the dawn horizon...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #soloparking
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 #soloparking, a project that asked participants to look for modes of transportation parked all by themselves....
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The Week on Instagram | 11
News
Video: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger attended the 2012 State of the Union Address
Get Involved
Weekend Hashtag Project: #soloparking. Check out photos from last weekend’s project, #somethingoldsomethingnew.
How I Shoot: @moniqua’s tips for taking macro photos
Instagram Tips: Share photos you’ve already uploaded
Around the Community
Featured: Explore Thailand...
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Featured: Design + Architecture Photos, by Sam...
Name: Sam Grawe, @grawesome
Bio: Musician. Former Editor-in-Chief at Dwell.
Location: California
Sam Grawe (@grawesome), the former editor-in-chief at Dwell, has an eye for modern design and architecture. His photos give you a peek into the world of someone fascinated by the way design shapes the world around us. In addition to design, Sam is also interested in music: when he’s not...
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Friday Photo Feature: Lunar New Year 2012
This past Monday, January 23rd, Lunar New Year celebrations took place all around the world. This is the year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, which is considered the luckiest of all zodiac years! Thousands of photos, from family dinners to street festivities, were shared on Instagram, but here are a few of our favorites.
Photos by resonate, brittanyhite, zing_w, gllewellyn,...
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Instagram Tips: Share Photos You've Already...
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.
Have you ever hit “Done” after editing a beautiful photo and realized, as it was uploading, that you forgot to turn on your share settings? We’ve all been there, but don’t...
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How I Shoot: @moniqua's Macro Photos
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking processes. This week, @moniqua shares her tips for taking close-up photos using a macro lens.
Camera: iPhone 4, with a macro lens
Vantage Point: Up close and personal. What I look for in a picture is...
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Featured Instagrammer: Meet @awnoom
Name: Athipan Wongsuebyut, @awnoom
Bio: Graphic Designer. iPhone only.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Athipan Wongsuebyut (@awnoom) likes to head outside of Bangkok, to the beaches and small towns, to take photos of the things he feels are fading in the big city. He finds the people who live outside the city to be calmer, simpler, and friendlier, and these are the qualities he aims to capture in...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #somethingoldsomethingnew
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 #somethingoldsomethingnew, a project that encouraged participants to find aged juxtaposed with the pristine....
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The Week on Instagram | 10
News
Video: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom speaks with CNBC
charity:water’s Paull Young on how non-profits can connect with donors + supporters through beautiful visuals on Instagram
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This weekend’s Hashtag Project is #somethingoldsomethingnew. Check out last weekend’s project, #stairstare.
How I Shoot: @chrisozer’s tips for taking aerial photos
Photo Tips:...
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How I Shoot: @chrisozer's Aerial Photos
How I Shoot is a series where we ask Instagrammers to tell us about their photo-taking process. This week, @chrisozer shares his tips for taking + editing aerial shots.
Camera: iPhone 4
Vantage Point: Manhattan Bridge. This bridge is just east of the Brooklyn Bridge but offers much clearer views of the city. There are pedestrian paths on both sides (though technically one side is for bikes...
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Photos: Rainy Days
Rainy days may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s undeniable that there’s so much beauty to be found & photographed once those clouds roll in to water the world! Here are some fantastic rainy day photos taken from around the world and shared on Instagram over the past week.
Don’t forget to use Mother Nature as an excuse to shoot the world through a...
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Photo Tips: Low Light
NOTE: The post below provides information on taking photos in low light on an iPhone. For Instagram users on Android devices, try Night Camera (Free), ProCapture ($3.99), or ProCapture Free (Free).
Capturing images in low light on an iPhone can be tricky, so we wanted to share a few tips & tricks in order to capture the best image possible in a dark scene!
Taking photos indoors...
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Sundance Film Festival 2012
Every year, thousands of film lovers head to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival. This year, the Sundance Institute is encouraging festival-goers to share photos from the event on Instagram. If you’ll be at the festival, tag your photos #sundance for a chance to be featured on the Sundance website!
Not able to make it to Park City but still want to keep up with what’s...
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Meet Chef @matthewjennings
Name: Matthew Jennings, @matthewjennings
Bio: Husband. Father. Chef. Cheesemonger.
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
As executive chef at La Laiterie and master cheesemonger at Farmstead, Matthew Jennings has plenty of opportunities to snap photos inside the kitchen. While there are plenty of food photos on Instagram, what drew us to Matthew’s photos is the way he uses Instagram...
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Weekend Hashtag Project: #stairstare
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 #stairstare, a project that encouraged participants to notice the often overlooked yet photogenic stairway....
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The Week on Instagram | 9
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Instagram has a new designer! Meet Tim Van Damme.
Instagrammers are in Abu Dhabi taking photos of an around-the-world sailing race.
Get Involved
This weekend’s Hashtag Project is #stairstare. Check out last weekend’s project, #reflective.
Around the Community
Meet the Portland Instagram community!
An interview with @selk by @tonywankenobi on Juxt
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“We Got...
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Instagrammers in Abu Dhabi for Volvo Ocean Race
Puma (@puma) flew a few lucky Instagrammers to Abu Dhabi to photograph the Volvo Ocean Race, a 9-month yacht race around the world, held every three years. The Instagrammers at the event will be sharing photos to their own feed and tagging them #marmostro, which is the name of Puma’s boat and means “Sea Monster” in Italian. Instagrammers just arrived a couple days ago and will be...
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InstaCity: Portland
InstaCity is a blog series that introduces you to local Instagram groups around the world. Portland InstaMeet organizer @grether shared some details about his city’s meetups with us. Want your city’s meetup group featured here? Write us at instameet [at] instagram.com.
City: Portland, Oregon
First InstaMeet: January 2010
Next InstaMeet: On January 14, a photowalk around the Hawthorne...
