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The quality of this photo is total crap. I took it with my phone. And I love it, for some reason. Humor me.

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Photos taken of my computer screen while working on some artwork for a client.

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A couple weeks ago I was bothered by how busy I’ve been and the fact that it has prevented me from properly picking up a camera, so I set a new goal: take a photo a day, with my cell phone. I’m calling it the Daily Interestingness.

It may be a bit presumptive of me to assume all of my photos will indeed be interesting, but the project has done a few things: it makes me think about photography again, it has put me on the look out for quirky objects and textures, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

One of best things of all is the use of a crappy cell phone camera, in my case: the iPhone. The constraints enforced by these inferior cameras make me think differently. I’m a firm believer that the right constraints will help you create better as opposed to having all of the options in the world available.

I want you to play too.
All of my photos get put in a set (linked above) on flickr and tagged with “daily interestingness”. I’d encourage you to do the same and we can all play along.

The Rules:

1. The photo has to be taken with your cell phone
   (or some sort of similarly inferior image-capture device.)
2. Any editing has to be done in-camera or in-phone with available software. I use Camerabag (iTunes link) for the iPhone, primarily.
   (You don’t have to edit them in any way if you don’t want to, but it’s fun.)
3. Upload them to flickr or VIRB° or whatever and tag them “daily interestingness”.
   (don’t forget the quotes or flickr will split it into two separate tags.)
4. Share via Brightkite or Posterous or something like that.
5. Have fun.

If you end up trying this out, or if you’re already doing something similar, post a link in the comments for us to check out.

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Sometimes constraints make for better work or for seeing things in a whole new way. For over a year now I’ve been keeping a somewhat regular photo blog using my cell phone. It’s really just a set on flickr and I update it whenever I can.

Mostly it’s just fun photos from life, but sometimes a phone camera gets me to look at the world differently than my normal DSLR.

Here are a couple gems I pulled out tonight. Other than cropping and levels, they’re straight off the phone.

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Promotional cards for the Hello Kavita Giveaway.

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Did a nice fall hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. We caught the fall color perfectly. I have to say, Sandbeach Lake is probably the oddest high-mountain lake I have ever seen. In general, mountain lakes aren’t known for their sandy beaches. And this one not only has a beach, but it’s large, yet confined to only one side of the lake. Very weird.

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