Thanks 4 the HL!
This is one of the preferred places of Toto', the same place of our marriage ;)

The location suits him, he's a noble animal. :)

beautiful
It's so nice to see a photo that looks like it came from a mobile phone, was taken at the spur of the moment, etc...All I ever catch on the highlights box are photos that look like they were taken with a professional camera and 2 hours of setup. : )
This is really refreshing.

Yep Alexis... this is a genuine shot from my iPhone, no professional camera and no setup, just my best friend in a relax moment, captured because I'm lucky and ever with this amazing device on my hands ;)

Think alexis is either being unfair or doesn't log on enough - I don't recognise his description of the HL situation. Thing is that a good photographer's stuff looks good regardless of kit because they use the kit within its limitations. Even a top-notch Hasselblad couldn't compensate for a lack of talent or technique & likewise I see stuff on Moblog taken with identical phonecams to mine but simply far, far better images than I produce because I'm not that good.

alexis - if you're in N America, I admit there's specially bad kit problems there. US & Canadian providers seem to punt out a lot of staggeringly bad phonecams only really suited to taking retro-styled shots...

Exactly hildegard... in facts... that's not my first HL with a mobile camphone... I can remember this shot taken with my old motorola ROKR E1 (640x480 VGA cam) which is highlighted too

Sure not is an high quality photo but mbUK doesn't take care about the number of pixels like other similar platform, that's why I love to stay here... where persons love to share what are seeing everyday and where I can discover amazing stuffs I can't see in Italy ;)

hildegard; mobile phones outside North America are now equipped with 4MP-ish cameras, the standard consumer level digital camera in North America is still around 3-7 depending on how much you're looking to spend. This is not what I mean when I say "professional camera...hours of setup"

I thoroughly understand what you're saying about a "good photographer" I'm saying, highlights didn't used to be all good photography : ) - and they aren't now, but they have taken a major turn.
Also- you talk about your photos - I hadn't seen your photos this year until just looking at them now, so, I'm in no way talking about yours or anyone in particular. - Although I do rather like yours : )

I'm possibly being unfair- but, the highlights used to constantly reflect spur-of-the-moment stuff, maybe it's that nothing is ever unusual because everyone has technology to capture everything at every moment.
ah, the price for advancing science. soon phones and cameras AND the internet will be built in to our skulls : )

Thanks for the kind words, didn't think you were talking about individuals particularly, but talking about a trend towards perhaps more polished-looking HLs.

I fess up - mine are from a series of phonecams, an entry-level DSLR & scans from all kinds of cheap plastic film cameras. There are also lots of people using the same DSLR as me, only better. :)

Dunno how to to tell if something's spur-of-the-moment but agree that technology changes the content - there's stuff I don't bother shooting with my phonecam because it's not up to the job - I take a waterproof camera if I go canoeing. :)

Moblog's got me more interested in taking pics though Now if I go out for a walk or to an event, I'll always have my phone & another camera of some kind with me, which of course alters the parameters of what I post.

Also, stuff you used to have to understand layers & histograms to improve can now all be tweaked with one click on the phone or in the software you use to import the image to a computer . Maybe the polish itself has been democratised? ;)