Pond photos

Here are three photos that I took this week, each looking into one of the ponds on our corporate campus.

The best camera

In the spirit of The Best Camera Is The One That's With You, I was watching TV in my living room on Saturday afternoon when all three of my dogs approached me, wanting to play. They looked so cute. I had my iPhone with me, and thus came this photo!

I've been having a lot of fun creating photos like this one using the "Best Camera" iPhone app. The app provides "a unique set of effects that can be applied at the touch of a button. Stack those effects. Mix them. Remix them. Virtually infinite creative possibility with your photos." (More details here.)

The resulting images are low-fidelity and have a retro feel to them -- and I love them!

Here are other Best Camera photos I've created. And here is a live feed of Best Camera images being uploaded from around the globe!

iPhone photography

I'm am really getting into the camera on my iPhone. The iPhone is almost always with me, and the best camera is the one that's with you. There are some incredible iPhone apps to enhance photos by the iPhone. Here are two images I took yesterday of some beautiful fall color. Click on each image to read about how I processed the original image taken by the iPhone into what you see here.

The best camera is the one that's with you

There's a book on my amazon.com wishlist called The Best Camera Is The One That's With You by Chase Jarvis. The photos in the book were all taken with Jarvis' iPhone over the past year. As stated on amazon.com: "This book is geared to inspire everyone, regardless of their level of photography knowledge, that you can capture moments and share them with our friends, families, loved ones, or the world at the press of a button."

While I love my new camera (a Nikon D40) and the sharp, beautiful photos it takes, this afternoon it did me no good, sitting at home on my kitchen table as the beautiful, fall-colored tree outside my office was screaming at me to take its photo.

With my iPhone in hand, I got a nice photo, and with the new Photoshop Mobile app for the iPhone, I was able to make the photo even nicer before uploading it to Flickr to share with the world.

I hope you like the following moment that I captured: