I've got lots of expensive equipment. I take really crappy iPhone photos though, nothing near your art. I just love your stuff M.

Really brilliant stuff. Did you photoshop any of this or is it like that straight out of the camera? Very nice choice of subjects, composition, etc.

You should add 'color' as a tag and link up with Will Someone Feed The Cat's color project. I would think this should qualify. :)

these are the photos taken by you iphone? that's very beautiful~~~ i am admire for your skill of take photos. good job!!!

Kent writes: "Did you photoshop any of this or is it like that straight out of the camera?"

The iPhone doesn't take black and white photos, so all have been edited to some extent. Most have been edited with software on the iPhone, and a few have been edited with the Mac Preview software. None have gone through Photoshop.

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.

Merry Xmas.

ooooo, I really like these!

These are really awesome, full of texture and patterns and moods that most would never even notice, much less be able to capture photographically.

These are absolutely stunning photos. Your self-portrait reminds me of a friend of mine. Not that it's any of my business, but I think it would make a wonderful avatar. Now, could you please explain to me how you get the photos in black and white made from an iPhone? Merry whatever you celebrate but thank you for this ART.

the last one is very fine....

I have been in love with your iphone pics for a long time now.
These are awesome Mishima.
The technology of today's world...

Oh my... these are just exceptional photos no matter what they were taken with. You have a real gift for "seeing." Thank you for this Whatsmas morning gift.

Great shots. It's amazing what a creative mind can do with technology.

Thank you.

I love SEEING thru someone else's eyes. "Woman", "Bridge", and "Statue" really got thru to me.

Just exceptional. Wit. Sensuality. You are certainly one of the photographic artists on OS and show us we don't need major equipment. Just an iPhone --and an "I."

Just amazing.

First, thanks to all who have stopped by and commented. I really appreciate it.

Cartouche writes: "Now, could you please explain to me how you get the photos in black and white made from an iPhone?"

To edit photos in the iPhone I recommend the Photogene application. It will do about 99 percent of editing that you would ever want to do -- strip out color, change exposure and contrast, straighten photos, crop, etc., etc. It is simple to use and costs only $1.99 at the app store.

Other useful apps include

TiltShift -- for adding a selective focus effect (you can see that on Statue above)

Juxtaposer -- take part of one photo and add it to another (e.g., put your dog's head on your husbands body, or vice versa)

Color Splash -- remove color from selected areas of the photo.

Autostitch -- make panoramic photos.

Those are all fun, but again, Photogene is the "swiss army knife" of photo editing on the iPhone.

I also have a Wordpress account that I used to keep a little photo diary. There is an application that lets you post to a Wordpress account right from your iPhone. So you can literally do everything right on the iPhone -- take photos, edit them, and post them on the internet.

Well done, yet again. The self-portrait is very, very fine. Happy holidays to you and yours! And stay warm - brrr.

I can't stop loving your work. It speaks to me.

These are wonderful, Mishima, as always. Little bits of found poetry, the world through your eyes. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Very, very, very cool!

I have to thank cartouche for sending me over here; you are still the champeen iPhone photographer round these parts, Mishima.

I especially love Breakfast, but every one of these has a little magic in it.

"Basketball Hoop" is my favorite. I occasionally manage a decent photo from my phone. Taking art photos with cell phones relates somewhat to what folks have been doing with Holgas and such, but the cell phone presents a slightly different set of challenges. Excellent work.

To someone for whom technology seems to hold nothing more promising than a headache, I found these photos stunning. Clearly, there's an artist at work here, composing, selecting and grabbing the moment, doing exactly what Cartier-Bresson did with his Leica. How does an iPhone stack up against a Leica? It doesn't, and the comparison doesn't matter. It always comes down to what the artist does with the available technology, be it a charred stick on a cave wall, a pin-hole camera, a Leica or an iPhone. Here's to credit where credit is due -- to the artist.

Jeremiah writes: "How does an iPhone stack up against a Leica? It doesn't, and the comparison doesn't matter."

It stacks up at least in this way: even if I had a Leica, I probably wouldn't carry it around with me all the time. And that's the advantage of the iPhone or any other cell phone. For anyone who wants to know what is the best camera there is one obvious answer -- it's the one you have with you.

I rarely "go out" to take photos. I take photos of whatever happens to be around wherever I am. That makes it possible for me to take photos in places that I would not normally think of as places to take photos -- a tire store, for example. That means that most of my photos are of "little things," not dramatic landscapes or exotic places.

Cool.

I love these. Thanks for the inspiration!

People at iPhone should pay you!