The “Colorado Instagram 2016” video features a collection of my favorite Colorado images I published throughout 2016 on the Instagram app (and website).
Colorado Instagram 2016 – In A Colorado Minute (Week 349)
For those who don’t know: Instagram is a photography app for smart
phones that is based on the idea of taking and sharing a quick
(traditionally square) photo enhanced with filters. If you want to
follow my pictures, you can find me under the username LuciWest. Let me know that you found me through this video, and I’ll be sure to follow you back.
If you don’t use Instagram, you can look at all my pictures at Instagram.com/LuciWest. Or you can see them sorted in albums by year in my Instagram Collection on Flickr. starting with my first Instagram photo on June 24th, 2011.
It’s become a bit of a tradition
that I put together and share such a retrospective video of my
Instagram photography at the end of the year. This year, I noticed that I
use a lot less filters than in the early years. This is also because I
pretty much stopped using Hipstamatic. Not using filters seems to be a
general trend though.
Another big change I’ve decided on is to
stop sharing pictures immediately (even though that was the original
point of Instagram). Instead, I try to be in the moment as much as
possible… taking pictures, sure… but not “leaving the moment” by
sorting, selecting, writing and sharing. Instead, I do that later at
home when the fun outing is over. Also, I hardly ever take pictures with
my phone anymore – and never with the app. Instead, I take pictures
with my point’n’shoot or DSLR – since these cameras now connect to my
phone via wifi. I used to think that was cheating. But you know what?
The times they are a-changing.
For a hot minute, I dabbled in
using Instagram Stories – the function that let’s you create a
collection of photos as you take them (with writing and drawings on
them) and that will only stay up for 24 hours… basically Snapchat. But
just like using Snapchat for a previous hot minute, I found the whole
endeavor going exactly in the opposite direction of what I want to do
with my time while I’m not sitting at my desk. Then there was the video
function to compete with Vine and then the live video…
I’m
curious to hear if and how you are using Instagram… are you still
using the in-app camera? Are you still using filters? Are you hooked on
Instagram Stories? Do you ever use the live video?
A few more
words about the photos in the Colorado Instagram 2016 video: They were
taken around various Fort Collins Natural Areas, Horsetooth Reservoir,
Cache la Poudre River, Cherokee Road, Royal Gorge and Red Feather Lakes.
The memories they bring up for me are of times spent with Scott and
Whiskey and many visitors, like Anne, Miriam, John, Brian, Finn, Darla, Jessica and Erica. What a fantastic year 2016 was (besides that stupid election).
Happy, creative, productive, healthy 2017 to you all. And please, be kind and be brave.
xx Luci
The song in this video is “Second Nature” by Jason Shaw of Audionautix. He made this song available via the CC BY 3.0 license. Thank you so much, Jason, for your lovely music!
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| Tree catching the sun at Dowdy Lake (Red Feather Lakes) in Colorado |
I’ll be posting a few of the photos throughout this week to the In A Colorado Minute 2016 Flickr album, on Google+ and Facebook…