Instagram and Iphoneography

In 2010 Instagram was launched and quickly became the #1 photo sharing platform for many people including photographers who specialize in this kind of social networking. For many like myself I use Instagram to post my photography. I don't use the silly included filters but I have other applications that I can edit with on my phone but most the time I don't use my phone camera for photography. I simply just take a photo on my DSLR and then upload the image to my computer and do the editing I need to do before I email it to my phone and then post it on Instagram. Many people use Instagram very differently in that it is a way of documentation which photography was always a form of documentation but with the vast amount of followers you can accumulate, your personal life and memories becomes the worlds memories where they can simply follow your life and what you do. I believe Food Porn comes to mind most of the time... "HEY GUYS LOOK WHAT I HAD FOR DINNER!" Yep can't say I haven't saw that a time or two in my time on Instagram. Instagram and iPhone photography in general are the new thing because its easier to take out a cellphone and click a picture and toss on some silly filter and call it photography. Clouds, Food, Babies, Club photos, Ads, It really just depends on who you follow and who follows you to depend on what you see. Photography clubs now are offering classes on Iphoneography which is exactly as it sounds.. Photography on an iPhone where you can actually take external classes and learn how to become an iPhone photographer... REALLY PEOPLE!? The art of photography is being downgraded to this degrading thing just because of technological advancements and because having your cellphone is more convenient? I carry my camera anywhere I go.. If its that important.. Ill take a photo otherwise I could care less.  Below you can see my personal Instagram header where it basically flat out tells you that I am a Commercial Photographer and even my name describes quite enough

Upon scrolling down you will see... as an example from November

That I post mostly photography and thats one month.

Of course there is many uses and applications out there for one and I am in no way downing Instagram because I use it as a form of social networking to get my name out there so my followers can also see what I have been doing but so I also can see what my photography friends are doing.

I just find that advancements of this sort in technology are taking away the meaning of a lot of things such as private galleries or photography and how it is presented. I truly believe photography is a medium that will have to evolve and change over time because its a tech medium unlike drawing or painting.