Chase Jarvis is at it again...

http://www.thebestcamera.com/

If Chase Jarvis isn't one of the best photographic innovators on the planet in a world full of shutterbugs, I don't know who is...

Seriously, "iPhone-Tography" ROCKS!

I just added a link to a brand new web site I found via Flickr group - iPhone-Shots.com. While I'm sure Chase Jarvis probably gets credit for being the first big time pro to tout the iPhone as a legit photo tool, it's quickly developing a cult following as a tool that's fantastic for creating and editing awesome images.

My first 3Gs had a defect in the camera, which made me hesitant to judge it as a valuable tool. However, soon enough I got a replacement and now I can't resist using my iPhone as a powerful all-in-one photo tool. All it can't do directly on the device is print - and being a bit of an old-school photographer, there's still a part of me that believes a photo isn't finished until it looks good in print.

Not to worry - I've actually printed a couple of photos from my iPhone, and if I didn't know I shot the image with the iPhone, I wouldn't be able to tell which camera I shot it with.

Here are some more of my favorites - all taken and edited directly on the iPhone:

2009 Autumn Emergence

(Click to see it on Flickr and for full-resolution). Shot with my "PannyLeica" this year.

Continuing my annual tradition...

Or maybe I should do more color...

Dancing in Technicolor
Originally uploaded by PositivePaul

I currently have this as my desktop wallpaper. And no matter how much I'm drawn towards monochrome images, a strong color image is very powerful. The lighting, color and texture make this semi-abstract photo appealing, and are in a lot of ways more important than the subjects of the photographs themselves. They become the subjects in a lot of ways...

I dunno what it is about monochrome...

...but even though I have better equipment for producing color photos, I'm still much MUCH more drawn into sepia and black-and-white images...

New "camera" -- again...

Well, actually, since my Sprint contract was up and I wanted an iPhone, I got one of those. I initially bought the cheapest 8-gig 3G version, but the day the 3GS came out, I took that back and got that one.

A week later, I finally am getting a chance to play around with the built-in camera and on-phone photo editing tools. Wow. Just. Wow...



I'm going to have to swap it, however, because as you can see in the top-right corner of this photo here, Apple's QC has... issues... I love my Macs, but this flaw in the brand new iPhone camera (only on my phone at least from what I've seen this far) is a bit frustrating...

They've finally taken my Kodachrome Away...

I'm a huge Paul Simon (and Simon & Garfunkel) music fan, and I'll probably admit that Simon's "Kodachrome" steered me at least a little towards Nikon when I was determining what camera company I wanted to buy into when converting to digital.

The Seattle Times reports today that Kodak has pulled the plug on Kodachrome. Now, there's only one place that develops it any more -- not exactly the one-hour processing that we can get with other films. But before you stock your freezer with any last rolls you may scramble to find, Dwayne's photo has only agreed to keep processing it through 2010.

I've never shot a roll, and it looks like I never will. Still, I'm a sentimental sucker and I'm a little saddened by this news.