iPhone – my favorite camera apps

 

 

 

There is a famous saying that by Chase Jarvis that “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You”. (right now)

 

He has even published a book entirely of iPhone pictures – pretty great, huh!

 

 

 

Well here is my latest and greatest camera – on me all the time – my new iPhone. 

 

 

 

 

Oh my gosh!  I’m having so much fun!  Here are my favorite “apps” in no particular order (you’ll see the photos of some of these apps below):  Hipstamatic, Camera+, Nightshot, Incredibooth or Pocketbooth, Retro Camera, Shake it Lite, Self Photo, Muybridgizer, just to name a few.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Bella sitting in the sun soaked window – her favorite spot

 

A “polaroid” of Sara in her high chair

 

Sara shakin’ her bottle

 

Sara in the bathtub

 

Alex, too.

 

Alex playing soccer

 

the family playing in the living room

 

A snowy tree with blue sky (It is up there somewhere - the sky is blue!)

 

The kids in the bath together

 

 

 

 

And a photo booth strip of Sara

 

 

Sara and Mama at the Flower and Garden Show

 

Alex fast asleep in the car  (Ok, this one was not taken with my iPhone, but Lance sent it to me on my iPhone!)

 

Muybridgizer – it takes 9-12 photos in a series and you can play them back like an old movie

Black and White or Color?

I think this one looks much better in B&W.  What do you think?

 

 

Go backwards

Going backwards is an important thing for a baby to learn, especially in our house.  We have 3 one step downs where a baby has to learn to navigate if they want to go where ever they want to go.  And trust me – they want to go where they want to go.  So, with Alex we taught him to go backwards (not a unique concept, but a new one for us being new parents).  He learned the hard way a few times, just like him.  He didn’t see/care/understand that there was a stair coming up and just went off of it front ways.  Sara, on the other hand, carefully puts her hand to where the edge is and tries to figure it out, but stays there at the top of the stairs. 

 

So, now we’ve now taught it to Sara. 

 

It doesn’t really take that long, it just takes some phrase that you say each time they are doing it and some physical teaching of the skill.  We would say “go backwards” (in the baby talk tone that parents always have) to Sara and help her put her swing her legs around and then down the stairs first.  You do this a couple of times and your done for the day.  You just repeat every so often and before you know it – you can see the look in their eye when you say “go backwards” and they try to get their legs around to get in the position.   At first, you see the understanding, but not being able to physically do it.  Then, before you know it – they understand and can do it on their own.

 

Sara can now get anywhere she wants to go and she is so proud of herself that she claps when she’s at the bottom, and gets us to clap with her since she’s so cute!