Primitive insertion of fuzzy photographs from a ‘free phone camera’
Some of you know I’m a Luddite who doesn’t give two craps about high tech gadgets. My phone is the one advertised as ‘free’. I paid $19 for it. Ha! Anyone surprised? The other day I wanted to capture the beauty of where I work. Why, I’ll just use my cheap free phone camera, I said on my meditative lunch time stroll. I finally figured out how to transroll (my made up word that I love) pictures that I take on my free phone to my email, to further roll into my picture files. See the pictures up there? One was supposed to capture the Hudson River but you can’t see it really because of the piss poor quality. One shows where you can take yoga but you can’t really see that either. The pictures aren’t iPhone or Blackberry camera quality but didn’t come out all that horrible.
I didn’t think to photograph Gregor Samsa, the engorged water bug who just lay hanging out on my living room floor, terrorizing me. I would’ve appended it to my Gregor Samsa post so you could see what I was afraid of. As they don’t move for almost an hour sometimes, taking a photo of my bug model would’ve been easy to do. But I’m sure y’all like flowers more. Wouldn’t you like to work at a place like this? You’ll get half the money you’re used to getting but dammit it’s worth it.
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I think I see something that looks like muddy water there below the hill. That it? These aren’t half bad considering the cheap phone. Impressed here. 🙂
It’s the sixth one on the right that’s the Hudson. If somebody like you, a real photographer says they aren’t half bad, then I’m good! Thanks George!
Is that Wave Hill? I haven’t been up there in years!
It is. Tonight was sunset Wednesday where it stayed open until 8:30. There was jazz music — very nice. I’ve been there 7 years. I love it.
I’ll have to remember that! By the way, the pictures are really nice! Don’t underestimate the capability of cheap*ss phones. They’re better than the old Instamatics! 🙂
I’m looking for a cheap digital camera to take pics for Facebook and my blog. I saw one for 24 dollars. I think I will save up for that one and I am sure it will have bad quality. But someone once told me that quantity is better than quality!
Carla you crack me up! It’s just like — ‘It’s better to look good than to feel good.” Tehehehehe! Good luck — I look forward to seeing the pictures!
I think this person who said that was thinking the more women the better, who cares what they look like lol
Wait, your Gregor Samsa was a water bug? I thought you were talking about cockroaches.
And what’s a water bug, in any case?
Also, you crack me up. Your name is Sword*-Chinned Bitch but you won’t write ass phone. Too funny. But wait, don’t you have a post names have some of my ass cake or something?
* I typed Sw and my fingers automatically finished the word as Swing. I had to delete and type again. True story. I wonder how many times a day I type the word swing that my fingers just take it for granted that it I type Sw it has to be swing and not something else…
Yeah, I named the water bug in my apt. after the character Gregor Samsa. He’s a man who turns into a giant bug in this story called The Metamorphosis. My bug was so big I thought it would fit. A water bug is four times the size of a cock roach and it thrives in moist areas — it likes water — byuck!
Hehehehehe! You’re right about ass — I never thought about that — the reason I do that in the title is in case people open the site with others around I guess. My blotting out letters in these words depends on how modest I’m feeling that day. 🙂
Oh I know about Kafka’s George Samsa. Read the book when I was 14.
I just thought that “your” George Samsa was a cockroach.
Girl, I wish it had been just a cockroach!
Hey they’re pretty good! My phone takes a lot worse pictures than that……or maybe that’s my fault.
Thanks! I may not be doing portraits of specialty with it but I was surprised they came out as good as they did.
Actually for a not-too-snazzy phone these pics are really good!!
Thanks FPP! Maybe I’ll take some more. I think the brilliance of the gardens makes up for the poor quality.
Not bad at all for a cheap a** phone 🙂
Boomie!!! Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’re having a blast on your vacation. I miss you and can’t wait to see what you have to say when you get back! Yay!
I think those photos are awful; one might say “piss poor.” The best one was the center bottom one, of the burnt-orange day lily. And when I clicked on it, all the charm of the thumbnail up there disappeared.
I say you ask for donations and at least get a $150 camera. I’ll be the first to send in my 5 bucks. Let me know….
I take donations.
Sandee, I think the shots came out great for a cheap phone, so keep doing what you do. Seriously, the bug’s still there???
Thanks Brigitte! It left, but, generally they hang out so long, I would have had time to take a photo of it.
Sandee the photographer–I like it!
Thanks Carrie — I do weddings.
Dear Sword,
Wow!
That place looks amazing.
I don’t think the pictures are bad.
At least you won’t get sued over them!!
I just wrote a post about only posting your own pictures.
I may have to get out my cheap A** camera a little more.
😉
Lis
Yeah, Lisa, this is part of the reason I wanted to experiment with my phone — I don’t want to get sued. This is an amazing place to work indeed!
For a Cheap cell phone camera, those are some pretty great pictures. That looks like an awesome place to work.
I feel fortunate to be able to work here. I used to come as a visitor and one day I said, I want to work there and voila! I wrote a ghost story based on here. Mark Twain, Arturo Toscanni, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Darwin lived here in one of the houses on the property. The Queen Mother stayed here once as well, so there are indeed famous ‘ghosts’ floating around. Ooooooowoooooo…..
These photos are way better than the ones I get with my Droid! Wave Hill is so pretty—I haven’t been there in ages.
Oh yeah — Wave Hill is where it’s at! I can only imagine what the pictures would look like with a really nice camera. Maybe Santa Claus’ll bring me one.
That’s 19 more than this luddite paid. I don’t think I can take pictures with mine. Either that , or I can’t be bothered to investigate the capability, so…well done. Maybe it is not too late for the likes of us? You are fast becoming my technological inspiration!
Jessica, this is both funny and sad 🙂
sorry. Can’t help who I am. Just hoping to find communion with others as lame as myself. Forgive the implication.
I feel lucky to have found communion in this! We can form a sisterhood!