your best camera

To quote Chase Jarvis, “the best camera is the one that's with you”.

I was reminded of that during a recent post processing job for a client.  Besides my own photography, I often help others with their own images.

We all remember the snow, right?  Well during the first storm in December my neighbor decided to take a walk in the Battlefield to see all the snow.  It was very difficult to simply walk - much less bring along a heavy camera.  So off he went armed only with his Blackberry.  He took a series of photos of the wintery landscapes and lived to tell about his multi-hour journey.    

I’m not certain what resolution camera is in a Blackberry, but I can tell you the images were small and of low quality.  That is to be expected, it’s not a Nikon for gosh sakes:)   But that is not important.  What is important is that it was the camera he had with him and that was his best camera - at the time.  Without it he would have lost the opportunity to capture that moment in a photograph.

So with his series of small Blackberry pictures I was able to enlarge them to 16x20’s and fix them up a bit.  This is one of my favorites of the series.

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I suspect the primary purpose of taking his Blackberry was to call for help if he got stuck.  Luckily it didn't come to that and instead it became his Best Camera.

Comments

[Elysia Everett]

love this post. so true.