[Link] 15 Nature photographers cooperate to show: Germany

[Frank Fremerey]

Instagram site, so this means images taken with smartphones?

Not in my experience. There are a lot of smartphone photos on Instagram, but, e.g if you look at my account "fotocontext" (which I do not serve very often), most  were taken with my standard Nikon tools, later scaled down and edited via Instagram App on my phone.

Also Instagram features a lot of promotional material esp developed by professionals for "social media PR". It is also used as a promotional platform for photographers.

The strength of an image of our member "Martine Henry" here on Nikongear is not reduced by the presentation format.

[Fons Baerken]

Frank i am not passing judgment, just curious since i have no smartphone with apps.

[the solitaire]

Instagram is "another" social media sharing platform. Seems to be frequented a lot these days by photographers, but I do indeed recollect something about Instagram mostly being a platform to share smartphone images and offering fancy graphic "filters" to process the output of smartphones.

Personally I am not registered there, nor do I incline to really. In itself that is a bad decision as the platform is used to find paying customers by quite a few photographers these days.

As far as the images go, yes, places of beauty can be found in Germany. In fact, I will drive over 400km (single leg) to one of the most beautiful places I know of myself. Not sure if I will find a lot of oportunities for photography but I will certainly try.