Congrats to Johannes Boventer on winning our first Polaroid ShakeItPhoto “Reminiscent” contest with his photo ‘Old School’. Very clean and simple and reminiscent of a time long before iPhone photography. Thanks for entering, Johannes!

We also loved Andy Weak‘s photo ‘Afraid of Heights’ and gave it an Honorable Mention. There is something kind of quiet and retro about it that we liked.

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! We hope that you’re enjoying the new Polaroid border! Be sure to check out the Banana Camera Company Facebook page. We’ll be posting more info on there about news, updates, and contests with both ShakeItPhoto and CrossProcess.

Hope you’re enjoying the new ShakeItPhoto 2.0! We’re so excited about the new Official Polaroid option. It’s been a while in the making and we’re happy to hear that so many of you are really liking the Polaroid look!

To celebrate the release of 2.0, we’re doing a contest. It will be similar to the Banana Camera Co contests that we’ve done in the past. In case you haven’t been apart of those, here are the details:

Theme

Reminiscent. (Be creative as you want! There are no rules!)

Submit

Enter your ShakeItPhotos into the Banana Camera Co Contest Flickr group. You may post up to one photo per day for the duration of the contest. The contest begins April 25th and ends May 2nd.

For this contest, please use only the new Polaroid ShakeItPhoto look (update if you haven’t already). You may use other apps in addition to SIP, but SIP must be used (obviously).

Winner

The winner and winning entry will be posted and announced on the Banana Camera Co blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr within a few days of the contest’s close. We will include your website/blog, Twitter info, etc., so be sure it’s on your Flickr profile (or email it to me) if you’re interested in having us share that info. (I will also post some Honorable Mentions.)

Show Us Your Entry

If you want to, Tweet your entry in the contest (using the link to your photo/entry in the Flickr Group) and mention @BananaCameraCo. We love to see and RT the contest entries!

Questions? Post them here or email us at info@ShakeItPhoto.com

Hope you guys have fun with this! Can’t wait to see your pics!

We are so excited to announce that the new ShakeItPhoto update includes the option to turn on a realistic Polaroid photo look. And to go with the new look, there is also a brand new website!

We’ve seen some great shots taken with the new look already! Be sure to show off your Classic ShakeItPhoto or Polaroid ShakeItPhoto shots on the flickr or facebook pages!

by thegoldenhippo on flickr

Have you visited the ShakeItPhoto Best Of Flickr group? It’s a group that’s full of your favorites (and our favorites, too). Today, we’ve chosen three out of the more recent ShakeItPhoto pics in the group. Here are the ones we love…

(Later, we’ll post our faves from the Best of CrossProcess Flickr group, so go ahead and upload your best shots!)

Want to know where to post your ShakeItPhoto and CrossProcess shots? These are the official Banana Camera Co Groups:

Contest Group
ShakeItPhoto App
CrossProcess App
Best of CrossProcess
Best of ShakeItPhoto

This post should probably be a lot longer than it is. We are huge, huge fans of Robert-Paul Jansen. He actually won a copy of one of our apps a while ago when we were giving them away via Twitter and has been creating incredible ShakeItPhoto and CrossProcess photos ever since. He’s been a part of our BananaCameraCo contests (he won an Honorable Mention and has always given us great, constructive feedback. If you follow any iPhoneographer, follow Robert-Paul Jansen. You won’t be disappointed!

{ Robert-Paul’s Posterous, Twitter, Flickr }

ShakeItPhoto made it into the pages of Playboy Magazine this month. Thanks to Bruce for showing us!

Check out how beautiful these photos are. They should be in magazines (do people still read magazines?). I love them all. Taken with CrossProcess and ShakeItPhoto.

Nicholas Corsalini (Mrfubar32x on Flickr)

We are huge fans of Pixar and last night, the director of Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

We’ve known that Mr. Unkrich has been using ShakeItPhoto for a while now. He brings “Big Baby” (a scary droopy-eyed tiny, naked doll from the movie) with him and shoots ShakeItPhoto pics of Big Baby’s adventures; lounging on the beach in Hawaii, visiting Greecian ruins, training it to Dublin, hangin’ with Michael Cera, Don Rickles, George Costanza’s mom, and even chilling in a big artichoke.

Last night, we took a gander at Lee’s Twitter and saw that he’d been capturing the night by taking shots with ShakeItPhoto. Big Baby got a new friend that night, too. Congrats, Lee!

All of @LeeUnkrich’s photos.

Mark Dascoli emailed us about this write up in GQ Magazine. ShakeItPhoto made it into the ‘Apps Hipster Girls Should Never Be Without’ section. GQ writes that hipster girls will mutter “I’ll only ever work in film” as they shake their photos. (We were also notified that ShakeItPhoto is in the March issue of Playboy. Who will be brave enough to scan us the article?)

For the company holiday card, Jim Barraud and his coworkers thought it would be fun to include portraits “(very) loosely based on a Swedish dance band” andbrought in a professional photographer to do the job.

Jim decided to take out his iPhone. He took these (awesome) shots with CrossProcess.

Twitter: @jbarraud