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I take it back, don't be impressed by any of this. I am a totally lazy, impatient photographer, and i don't take myself seriously at all. I just happened to be around at the time, and the light was divine, so there you go. 

At one point my parents gave me a lil 35 mm film jobby, and most of the brief quality time I spent with the thing consisted of a single grey day wandering the beach, staking out tidepools and pretending to be a wildlife photographer. It might as well have been a View-Master instead of a camera, because I couldn't ever be bothered with developing the actual film. And i don't even mean a darkroom (are you kidding? I'd rather draw the damn hermit crab), i mean time & effort taking it to a store to be developed. I think the roll is still kicking around in my studio crap somewhere, full of long forgotten seagulls and dramatic closeups of dunegrass.

Then i got the Nikon, which is a black beauty pseudo manual digital, and it's been along for a few photo expeditions. I'm the only person who's allowed to touch it, and me and my digital darling have had some good times. She's a sophisticated but easy little ho, takes sexy pics of black and white trees, wierd looking sunsets, urban alleys in pumped up chromacolor, and various self-portraits in the boudoir (rawr). Doesn't travel well though..... there's all the lens cap fumbling, getting it to turn on, batteries depleting, blah blah blah.

My point is, I'm impulsive. Me and my little electronic soul-stealing compadre, we need to grab the spontaneous picture and bang straight out of there before the moment's over. Hence, the camera phone.... which is light, unfussed, and easily accessible. I probably use it more to take photos than to answer calls, bahaha! I've long since accepted the crappy output, the grainy, slightly distorted pixels... the amplified light, the failings of a tiny inadequate lens. I also believe in improvising with the tools you have, and discovering what lovely, albeit limited things can come out of the format. Got a buncha good ones so far, nearly portfolio-worthy, too. So yeah, anyway, that one up there, that's my best one yet. : )