Just an iPhone, the old version. But you can take decent photos with most any cell phone.

I love these too! I really like lines coming together and images that make you think and give you pleasure while doing so. Well done.

Yeah, the first one -- that was an interesting situation. It's actually a boardwalk with tall buildings on both sides. There was shade and sunlight on the boardwalk, but also bright light was being reflected down on the boardwalk from the windows of the tall buildings. So the bright light was superimposed on both the sunlight and shade.

Just an iPhone?

I'd say that's pretty sweet.

My phone takes pictures, but at no where near this quality.

Thanks for sharing!

You were able to get some very sharp photos out of your iPhone. It's amazing how far the technology has come on those in just a few years.

I love them all, but the colors in the third one add an extra thrill.

Was the photographer's shadow captured by the boardwalk as well?

The really great thing about an iPhone, indeed any cell phone, is that your every movement can be tracked, whether you are using your phone or not. As long as it's turned on, you are on the grid. And if that were not great enough to get you to run right out and hook yourself up to Big Brother's unblinking eye, if he wanted to, BB could keep a log of everywhere you went since you owned your phone, days, dates, times, places. All that and the great feature that your phone calls can easily be recorded and kept forever by the government thanks to the Patriot Act.

That's just fuckin' peachy!

I use a little digital pocket camera to take pics.

But anyway, nice photos Mishima. Were you stoned?

No, I don't think my shadow was in the picture. There was a small tree off to the side as I recall.

And I certainly wasn't stoned. Otherwise the photos would have been better.

Whenever people looked at photos snapped by my MIL, they always said, "Wow, you must have a really good camers!"

In Brushpainting, it is said that a master work can easily be made with a stck from the ground and a bit of mud.

The thing is that it is the photographer and not the camera that makes these photgraphs art.

Beautiful dynamic work.

I love all these photos, so stark and geometric. I can see them displayed equally well at home, in an office, or, ideally, in a museum. More!

And when you flip the first one horizontally, I swear, it's Jimi Hendrix!

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments.

As far as cell phone cameras, one can take great photos with even a crummy cell phone camera. I've used some bad phone cameras before, but the photos come out Ok. You just have to "broaden your mind" a little bit. If the camera does a strange color shift, make an abstract photo. If the image is not sharp, concentrate on patterns rather than on detail.

The advantage of a cell phone camera is that you can always have it on hand. I have a nicer digital camera, but I rarely use it.

In the past, I never manipulated any of the cell phone images. That's partly because the file size was so small that it was impossible to enlarge or crop without having unpleasant digital effects. Also, I wanted to be a "purist," just presenting the image as it came from the camera.

With the iPhone, that (I think) has a 2 megapixel camera, there's a lot more information to work with. So you can crop and end up with a decent image. Also, having proved to myself that I can be a cell phone camera "purist," I have started manipulating the images on the computer. I have a Mac laptop, and all the photos in this post were modified using the fairly minimal tools available in the Preview application. Back in my younger days I used to do amateur medium format black and white photography, and I always enjoyed working in the darkroom. So my new "darkroom is the computer.

thanks for the thinking pleasure, these are great