I have started to work on my third iPhone book. It would be nice to pretend that I intended this as a series of books but that wasn’t the case. Last year, I made two books: Mono (see above) and Chroma. They were meant to be a complementary, stand-alone series. That was the plan. However, two new book projects have suggested themselves: Squared and Street. More on Street in a later post. For the moment I’m working on Squared.

Whilst editing the images I noticed that many of the very early images were created using the venerable Hipstamatic app. I have not used this app in years. Did it still work in 2025? Well the answer is yes. So this morning, whilst visiting one of my local coffee houses I grabbed a few images.

It did bring back some memories. Perhaps the best memory was that in the past. I used to be far more freewheeling with the images I captured with my iPhone. I am not like that now. Also I was not that bothered about image size. Today I tend to capture RAW images with my iPhone as opposed to the JPEG’s that Hipsta produced. (Which are tiny compared to the RAW files). Yet I find the Hipsta images more immediate which is very rewarding. So maybe I should go back to the future with my iPhone and see what happens. The only problem is that if I keep making square-shaped images with my iPhone, I’ll not finish the project. Thank goodness it is a vanity project. It has an audience of one. I can make up the rules as I go along.