seriously, guys. the iphone=the new school lomo. think about it. it’s got a craptacular lens. lo-fi resolution. you can carry it anywhere (if you’re like me you DO carry it everywhere). it’s easy to use, you just shoot right off the hip. there’s no zoom, no exposure tweaks (well, none that i use anyway), and instead of buying all these fancy effin’ lenses and lighting you’re forced to make do with a fixed focal length and no way to edit your images.

i guess it isn’t cheap (then again neither was my LC-A)…and my iphone does play music. and make calls. and upload directly to flickr. but otherwise i stand by my original statement…the iphone is the new lomo.

i snap a lot of photos with this thing. some are random ways to remember things, like what floor i parked on in a parking structure. others are really moment-of-opportunity type shots. and occasionally i upload those images to flickr. it has become a minor obsession actually, to the point where friends and coworkers roll their eyes when i’m “at it again.” ha. the images in this gallery were shot using a few of my favorite iphone camera apps but were absolutely, positively NOT post produced or edited in any way. they were just tagged, named, geotagged (iphone 3g GPS FTW!), dropped into my iphone flickr set, and uploaded straight from my iphone. no color correction, no sharpening. just go.

its a great way to keep a stream-of-consciousness type visual record of my days. and because i don’t always pack a mkii around town, it’s an easy way to take pictures of compelling things that i see from day to day. because of the extremely basic approach, these images have a weird kind of purity to them. i think a lot of photographers (myself included) get lost in the neverending quest to upgrade their gear…they buy new camera bodies, sharper lenses, extra strobes, and all because they think that somehow it will help them to take better pictures. and by doing all of that crap, they forget the real point of photography. yeah, these tiny images will never be used for a magazine cover. or at least mine won’t. but they are still cool photos. and they are a lot of fun to take. and they force you to use what you have at hand to produce something compelling, rather than letting you make the mistake of thinking that a new lens will do that for you.

check this page often, as my latest iphone stuff will show up in this gallery as i add it. also, if you’re interested in that sort of thing, you can visit my flickr iphone photoset and check out the exact GPS coordinates/maps showing where these photos were taken…whenever possible, i geotag my iphone pics before uploading. the nerd in me thought that was a really cool feature, anyway. enjoy!

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