I posted recently about “The Best Camera“, a project created by Chase Jarvis. It’s all about using your phone to take great pics, and that the best camera is the one that’s with you at any given time. Using a phone, it makes the shot more about you personal style and composition than the equipment used, which promotes true creativity. I have been participating, but haven’t posted any of the pics here, so I thought I would share a few.

The phone that I use for the project is an HTG G1 w/ Android, and as it was developed in part by Google, it is known as the “Google Phone”. I could go on for hours about it’s abilities, but I won’t, this is about the camera only. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera, which sports a mechanical auto-focus (wow), and will close focus for semi/faux-macro type shots. Considering it’s home inside a phone, that’s pretty impressive. The rest is up to me though; composition, etc…

Here are 3 shots I have taken with this phone. I hope you like them…

This first one is my favorite, and I took it yesterday. It’s a shot of my Canon 40D + Pentax Super Takumar 50/1.4. I stopped the aperture all the way down to about F/16 so that the blades could be the focal point. This might be my favorite picture ever with this phone, and there have been thousands since I bought it, so that is saying a lot. lol

This is a pic I took a while back of our dog, Roxy. I uploaded it to “The Best Camera”, and of all my phone shots, this seems to be the favorite among the members there (not in a competitive way). I won’t mention how many votes it has, but it does have over 310 views in the last week or two.

And lastly, why not post a recent shot of myself. I took this about an hour after getting a hair cut, which I wasn’t sure I liked at the time, and applied a filter to it. I like the way it came out, and it’s one of the few pictures of myself that I will share…