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Candid Frame 7.

My wife and I recently took a day trip to Santa Barbara.

And while I was there, one of the things that I noticed was what people were taking pictures with.

And the great majority of them were using their

camera phones. And that's changed from just a few years ago when a lot of people had compact cameras or

you would see a good number of SLRs, but now it's largely the camera phone that is the sort of

ubiquitous device for image capturing amongst everyone.

And it's really interesting to see that, not just because of the device that's being used,

but how it's informing and changing the way people see photography and how they use photography.

It certainly changed the way I shoot and in a lot of good ways. And it's been very

fun as well to pick up my phone rather than my camera and go out and make photographs. I have to

say that recently some of my best photographs have been as a result of using my camera phone.

And I know a lot of people don't like these things because of these filters

and they don't consider it photography, but it's here. And it's not going away. And there's

some practitioners of this type of photography that are really exceptional, regardless of what

device they're using. They're producing some fantastic photographs. And I had a chance to meet

some of these photographers recently

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