Not me, that is for sure:

Suddenly I am reading a lot of book by this man named Bill Bryson.  I’ve read two of his books so far and I am on a third and I am on a third.  I was reading about the building of the Eiffel Tower, when I missed my train stop.  Well, never me mind as I was armed with my Blackberry picture taking device and I snapped the following:

A few hours later it started snowing:

Further Blackberry production:

I’ve never been a fan of photographing things with your cell phone.  I mean there is the whole thing of it where you are photographing something ostensibly with a talking device.  That is number one.  Number two, when you are a good photographer, you can take those good photographer kind of photos with a cell phone and they still look pretty good because you know the basics, so it can become a sort of thing where someone can say “wow, that is a good photo” and you can say “um, yeah, I took it with my cell phone.”  Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have designed Fallingwater in about 15 minutes, so I could be one of those, well, look at that, I put no effort into it kind of people.  No effort and it is great anyway.

But then I took another look at these photos and I thought they do actually say something.  Maybe about my mood, maybe about the day, maybe just about the places I went to and in fact they deserved to be seen.  And seen they will be:

Yeah, I guess they are OK.  But they are cell phone kind of photos.  They were taken outside in bright sunlight.  Almost any camera behaves nicely when the conditions are good.  Bright light makes good photos.  I know that, Nadar knew that, William Henry Fox Talbot knew that.  It is when you take the action indoors when it gets complicated.  The difference between the production from this cell phone camera and then one from my XSI is that the XSI performs no matter what.  You get a fabulous shot no matter what.  Rarely, rarely, rarely has that camera even come close to disappointing me.  The cell phone, used as a camera, on the other hand, doesn’t do that well once you go inside.  See:

Its grainy.  I had to sharpen this like crazy and I blued it a lot.  Depressed yes.  Gets the point across, but I am not in love with this photo that much.  However, the cell phone camera photo experiments shall continue in earnest.

Some extra special stained glass I saw on my super fantastic trip down the Eastern Seaboard:

*No, these are just candies!

He is traveling on his winged horse very slowly or very fast.  But the hat and the bow and arrow really make the outfit.  Exactly the right number of accessories.

Dupont Circle, Washington is the home of one of the most gloriously gorgeous fountains I have ever laid eyes on.  I realize that the Trevi fountain may best it in beauty and others may try to best it in pure water showing, but there is something about the Dupont Fountain that I have always loved.  It is so European and American at the same time.  But it is ever hard to photograph.  I have maybe one really good photo of it and this one took three tries and multiple cuts to achieve.  See what you think: