Except for the most basic of models, mobile phones today come plenty of extra features and one of the most common is the camera attachment. Considering the advances that digital photography over the past five years, much of that technology is starting to percolate downward with cellphones on the receiving end.

For many people, the camera in their phone may be the only camera they may have. As the phone is usually within a hand’s reach, it makes taking impromptu candid shots possible. It also makes breaking news possible with on the spot coverage when events happen like the bombings in London a few years ago when cell phone pictures gave an indication of the chaos that was going just moments after the bombs exploded. The fact that the phones can readily transmit the photos to websites like Flickr quite quickly, these photos’ impact can spread quite quickly.

Some phone models have a resolution capability of 3MB which is on par with the little Kodak pocket camera I received three years ago. My LG phone’s camera has a 1MB resolution capability which is more than sufficient for my purposes which is taking advantage of a candid moment when I do not have my other cameras around. Moments like when Madeleine is goofing off in the backseat of the car. Of course, one can not expect the highest quality with these photos. Fixed aperture with a limited range of shutter speeds means that the subject has to be in decent light and relatively motionless in order to get a decent photo. Action photography is not something that these cameras do well at all.

I have uploaded a few of the photos I took with the phone camera to a Flickr photoset called Mobile phones. Nothing spectacular: just Madeleine at her most candid. I have made that photoset the default one for my mobile photo uploads which will happen on occasion. There may be other subjects but count on being most Madeleine shots.