Why I like My Phone for Photography

Over the past year or so I've found myself taking more and more "real" photos with my iPhone (iPhone 15 if you care). My iPhone photos are now incorporated into my LightRoom catalog. What and when do I use the phone's camera? I primarily use it in four situations:

1. To get a "blur" effect but I don't have a tripod handy

2. In difficult lighting situations just to make sure I have a different "view" than I get with my DSLR, and frequently with less time spent in processing

3. When I don't have my DSLR with me for some reason

4. To create an easy panoramic photo, good enough for social media

And of course I still take and send via text messages, timely photos to family during events, when I'm traveling etc. That's something I've done for years and didn't do with my DSLR.
Below are examples of each of those four situations (and you may notice there's frequently a couple of those situations in play for a particular photograph).

Dunloup Fall - New River Gorge National Park

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - Asian Lantern Festival

A Walk in My Neighborhood

Cherry Grove, North Myrtle Beach, SC

A School Production

Stuff I Saw Outside Today

Until the storms rolled in around 6pm, it was a beautiful day today, and I spent almost all of it outside.

Web - Milford, Ohio

White-Throated Sparrow - Milford, Ohio

Turkey Vulture - Milford, Ohio

Eastern Phoebe - Milford, Ohio

Dogwood - Milford, Ohio

I Like Bluebirds

More from Valley View just this morning.

Female Eastern Bluebird - Valley View, Milford, Ohio

Male Eastern Bluebird - Valley View, Milford, Ohio

Male Eastern bluebird - Valley View, Milford, Ohio

It Seems Like a Long Time Ago

Key West April 2013, one of the many trips and groups of photos I've never really gone through. Well here are a bunch from that trip now, including the famous sunsets. Better late than never ;) I have some from the Everglades on that same trip, maybe I should sort through them.

Sunset - Key West, Florida

Anchor and Rope - Key West, Florida

Sunset - Key West, Florida

Seagull as Sentinel - Key West, Florida

Canon as Sentinel - Fort Taylor Key West, Florida

Sunset - Key West, Florida

Sunset - Key West, Florida

Angel - Key West, Florida

Reflection - Key West, Florida

Sunset - Key West, Florida

Moonrise - Key West, Florida

Angel #2 - Key West, Florida

Out and About - Valley View

Walked a bit around Valley View a couple days ago. Checked out their garden plots and a little bit of the trails.

Thistle in Black and White - Valley View, Milford, Ohio

Thistle in Color - Valley View, Milford, Ohio Because I can't decide

More Thistle - Valley View, Milford, Ohio Really I guess, brown and white ???

River Reflection - Valley View, Milford, Ohio

Fall Leaves

From a little get-away this weekend

Red Lady Liberty - Madison, Indiana

Pretty Trees All in a Row - Madison, Indiana

Fall Leaves - Madison, Indiana

Still Here...

...but not for all that long. Busy as always but here a couple from my wanderings around.

Sunshine and Green Space - Oxford, England

Fading Memory, St. Giles - Oxford, England

Water

Just back from Scotland with a heap more photos. Decided I'd post some right away. Here are a lot of photos with a water theme. I'm too lazy to title them all tonight.

Wanderings in Scotland