A late post today, but I am uploading a just-off-the-camera images. I spent the day unsuccessfully running errands, which resulted in about 3 hours of down time. Time spend doing absolutely nothing but waiting. Did some shopping in the mall, but I am not exactly spent-time-shopping person. I shop because I have to, because I need and like to have stuff, not for the pleasure of seeing what is out there. So the rest of the time, I spend finally doing macro photos with iPhone and magnifying glass. Not an easy task at first, to keep both items with one hand, in exact position, and try to take a photograph. I used some help from Gorillacam app, where one of the functions is Press Anywhere. Nice result, I think.

I should title my iPhone photos posts something like “Quick snap” or similar. They are so fun to take and so easy to process before putting on blog. This one was taken on the same walk as last week bluebells. Just strolling around town on a sunny spring day with ice cream in mind.

When was the last time I shared a photo taken spontaneously with my iPhone? Must have been a while. I was just checking if there is something interesting hiding in Camera Roll, and indeed there was this image. I took it on a walk to creamery last week. With all free time I have now, I am discovering that you can actually ride a bike or walk around our middle-of-nowhere Iowa town, so I can observe the season’s changes. And my iPhone is always with me, to document all the buds, spring flowers and emerging green leaves.

We were sitting in our favorite sushi place. They had a dessert special. Chocolate cake with strawberry sauce. We not only ordered it, but also photographed . Kind of before and after short story on the chocolate cake.

I was adding some feed to bird feeder, when I noticed this piece of ice below the table on my balcony. I snapped an image with an iPhone, and run some filters in Best Camera (you can check out the recipe here). Are you seeing any animal in that? I saw a fish with its mouth up, or a small critter sitting on its back with paws up.

A few weeks ago, we went to see how the water release is going in winter in Coralville Dam. We were looking for slow shutter speed images, I think, but were not very successful in capturing the power of water. However, the pattern of water made for an interesting image. I took some photos with “big camera”, and some with an iPhone. I decided to post-process the iPhone image. The recipe for the image can be viewed on BestCamera site.

We finally managed to get some snowboarding this season, with weekends being mostly too cold so far. It was a great time off everything, just snow and me. But on the lift and when we were packing the car, I grabbed several shots with my iPhone. This is my favorite. We were taking some snaps of sunset with silhouettes of group of people, and we were happy with the results, when this girl came in the picture.

I am treating my photography seriously for what? Two years now? And for about that long I am just pondering on the idea of shooting what I know the best- my work place. What makes my work place so interesting, is the fact that I work in the lab. Think chemistry. Which sometimes means stink, but most of the time- it means a lot of objects, a lot of glass. Usually in the afternoon, when sun gets to the side of the lab where the sole window is located, it would shine straight on my bench where all the solutions stand in their glass flasks. I have been looking and thinking to photograph it for some time, but this time I finally took out my iPhone and snapped few images. This is my favorite.

I was not using my iPhone camera recently too much. As I mentioned before, the noise in low light situations was driving me nuts, and I was hardy ever outside during the day. Really the first occasion came today, when I went to run some errands and saw those beautiful red berries covered with light snow which came out absolutely unexpectedly in the morning. Those below I was able to photograph nicely with my small camera, but it did not work for the large berries on the trees because of the contrast between them and the sky- for those I went home to grab the big camera, and I will post them on some other occasion.

The convenience of an iPhone. You stop at red light, see an image, take iPhone out, the camera app on and… snap a photo. Like this one- we were going downtown Iowa City for lunch, when I noticed the spiral of smoke coming out of chimneys in power plant. And that the two smokes were of different color. I thought it would be an interesting image, so … I took it .