#marchphotoaday Challenge on Instagram (and everywhere else) with @FatMumSlim

February is almost over and my favorite month is coming up – March!  Why is March my favorite month?  #1) My birthday is on the Ides of March, #2) My anniversary is the first week of March, and #3) My oldest turns 9 on St. Patty’s Day!  I am 100% Pisces and my son shares many of my traits as well.  I love spring!  I love seeing flowers in bloom (but I hate the pollen).  I love the first real beach trip of the year.  I love Spring Training baseball.  I love everything about March!!  

It’s also time for a new Photo-a-Day challenge with @Fatmumslim!  Every month I get a little better and one of these days I may actually finish a challenge!  For February I did great until I left for Blissdom.  I’m a few days (ok – 5 days) behind and should probably catch up!

What is #MarchPhotoADay?  You can read all of the ‘rules’ over on the @Fatmumslim blog.  It’s amazing how many people are participating in the challenge and I love following all of you on Instagram (and Twitter and Facebook) and love to see how you interpret the word/phrase of the day.

Speaking of Blissdom – one of the sessions that I took was Mobile Photography, Microblogging, and Instagram with Ryan Marshall and Jason Hudson.  Since I use my iPhone more than my digital camera I knew I would LOVE this session.  I found a few new photography apps that I’ve started to use.  Camera + is my new favorite app because it has a flash feature.  My ancient iPhone (3gS) doesn’t have a flash so it’s nice to have this feature.

Other favorite iPhone photography apps:

• Adobe Photoshop Express – free
• Pic Collage – free
• Pic Stitch – free

We talked about several different photo apps but mostly about Instagram (my favorite photo sharing app).  I’m looking forward to making a more cohesive and creative Instagram grid for March using some of the ideas that Ryan and Jason gave us.  You’ll just have to follow along to see how well I do.

To follow my photo stream on Instagram simply like me on Twitter @TheEcoChic and watch for my #MarchPhotoaDay post.  If you are already on Instagram be sure to “Follow Me” there.