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David Hume Kennerly On The iPhone;
Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer
Goff Books www.goffbooks.com
ISBN 978-1-939621-13-9

What do you get when an award winning, seasoned, photojournalist encounters a year with no planned big news events to cover; no presidential elections, the economy apparently on the rise, Washington politicians at a standstill? You get David Hume Kennerly picking up his iPhone and striving to make meaningful images with it every day for a year.
In his forward Kennerly notes that despite the rise of mobile phone photography now creating more pictures in a year than in all of history, “this new technology hasn’t turned out a new crop of world-class photographers.” He continues, “Instead, it has allowed people to take sharper and better exposed pictures that generally lack meaningful or well-composed content.” He then rather ominously notes, “The power of pictures is being diluted by a tidal wave of visual mediocrity that is out there for all ...

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Michael Williams
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Mike Williams, is a hobbyist photographer, sometimes art show participant, and works as the head librarian of the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. A passionate technology explorer and early adopter his first digital camera was the Chinon ES-3000 in the mid 1990s. He and his wife Debbie enjoy traveling with their cameras as much as they can and hope to someday attend a Luminous Landscape workshop.
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