One of the best iPhone camera apps

This post is a rundown of my experience with the  iPhone app by Chase Jarvis  called the Best Camera.

It's based on the philosophy of "look if you really feel like taking pictures just use whatever you have at hand."

Such was the case for me the other day. I was in the city for a meeting. And well, call it 'dull meeting syndrome' or whatever you like, but by the end of it my right brain needed some fun time.I didn't have my camera with me but I did have my iPhone. And therefore I did (kind of) have my camera with me.

So armed with my trusty iPhone I went to the Melbourne Tourism thingy, grabbed a map of Melbourne laneways, and took to the streets. Well, the laneways.

Yes I stood alongside keen photographers with their Canon 5D Mark woopsie-doos and their Nikon D3 billions and proudly snapped away with my phone. These better equipped photographers looked across at me, I'd like to say with creative encouragement and inspiration in their eyes, but it was more like 'whadda loser she really should get herself a camera one day' - but I was unperturbed. Even when my 'camera' rang in the middle of my shooting (which admittedly was a bit embarrassing)...

Soon the clouds came over and the drizzle hit. That knocked those snazzy photographers out of the way, but not me. My trusty iPhone and I kept on keeping on.

Dame Edna Lane, Bank Place, Hardware Lane, Mitre Lane...I ticked them all off one by one. I even held my phone up to bemused cafe latte style groovers in DeGraves street, they shooed me away like a fly... but  I had no shame, I was on a creative bender.

Hosier Lane almost sent me over the edge. There's just so much great, great, great stuff there. There was a small issue when a homeless man thought I was offering my phone by holding it up, but apart from that, whadda stunning place.

I felt quite the political activist as I snapped away at stuff that smart current affairs people talk about. Like, well er stuff.

Then to my great joy (and less embarrassment) my camera rang and it was one S. Brownbill offering to buy me a soup of pasta somewhere in Russell Street.

Art? Or food? Well I'm a starving artist, so food wins everytime.

Above is a montage of the shots I took. Good fun, great lanes and super soup. Could Melly be any happier?