iPhone photos as art: Amazing iPhoneography (pictures)

If you have an iPhone, you've likely taken a photo or two (or hundreds) with the device. Maybe you've used an app like Instagram to enhance and share your pictures. Or maybe, like some of the iPhoneographers featured in this gallery, you've used five or more apps to brighten, mute, saturate, blur, or otherwise enhance your images, spending countless hours refining them. Never heard of iPhoneography? It's an up-and-coming mobile art form that's catching the eyes and talents of iPhone-toting established and citizen artists worldwide.

The inaugural LA Mobile Arts Festival -- which runs from this Saturday, August 18, through next Friday, August 25 -- celebrates the present and future of this emerging art form. The festival will feature well over 600 examples of iPhoneography by artists from 30 countries -- prints, mixed-media installations, sculptures, sound and video projects, and more.

Helen Breznik of Toronto uses her iPhone to create dreamy self-portraits, like this one, titled "Lilie Lotus." It was shot on an iPhone 4 and enhanced using Juxtaposer, an app that lets you combine multiple pictures into photomontages quickly and easily, as well as Color Lake, a water effects app.

"iPhoneography has truly opened the door to new possibilities of image-making, allowing me to work more freely and spontaneously without the need to 'sit myself down at a computer,'" Breznik says. Click through our gallery to see more examples of iPhoneography to be featured at the upcoming festival in Santa Monica, Calif. You might just be looking at the next Ansel Adams or Annie Leibovitz.