The iPhone Picture Thread, Any Smart Phone Welcome.

[What Exit?]

First the USS Constitution. Ole Ironsides. Oldest Naval Ship afloat.

[What Exit?]

[pepperlandgirl]

A random assortment of images, hardly any cats.

[OtakuLoki]

The thing about museum ships like Constitution is that they have to pretty things up so that you don't really get an accurate feel for how the ship was like in service. Just for an example, you've shown a couple of shots of the hammocks slung on one of the decks on the ship, and they've got a few there, but until you think that that ship would carry several hundreds of men with her, you can't see just how crowded that space would be while the ship was in service.

I love seeing them, but even with more modern ships it's usually a highly sanitized version of the shipboard life that you're viewing.

(And I love the shot of the junction box - it's just jarring enough that I was thinking of the differences between what we see now, and what would have been the norm in service.)


Pepper, an awesome set of pics, thanks.

[OneCentStamp]

Pepper, is that illicit smoker leaning against the Tower Theater?

[pepperlandgirl]

Pepper, is that illicit smoker leaning against the Tower Theater?

Yes she is We were waiting for the midnight movie at the time. I think it was The Shining, but I'm not sure.

[OneCentStamp]

Well, since all smartphones can play, let's have some Blackjack II action. It's a rainy, foggy day in downtown Houston. A few droplets on the lens made haloes in some of the pics:

[artifex]

Galveston


From a restaurant near home


The ever-popular game of Stuff on My Cat


VNV Nation

[OneCentStamp]

Wasn't that shot of the Woodlands Waterway taken through a window? That's impressive.

[artifex]

Yes, it was. I really like the VNV one; I think it's neat how the hands get pixelated-looking in front of the stage lights.
(Can everyone spot the big jellyfish in the beach pic? Gross.)

[artifex]

I like these well enough that I'm sad we didn't get them taken with the regular camera:
Me & OCS

Me & our 8yo (in OCS's sunglasses)

[What Exit?]

Good shots.

[OneCentStamp]

We're working on our "leaving Texas soon" bucket list. Today's trip was a tour of Southern Star Brewing Company, a tiny craft brewery in Conroe, TX (about 50 miles north of Houston). They only opened in 2007 - since I've been in TX - and because of that I feel slightly paternalistic about them. Both of us love their beers, too.

I use the term "tour" loosely; the brewery, in a blazing hot warehouse in an industrial part of town, simply throws its doors open for a couple of hours each Saturday afternoon. You can come by, and if you buy a pint glass for $5, they'll fill it for you four times, while you look at fermentation tanks and sacks of malt, and the brewers chat you up. The final result of this is that you end up getting shitfaced at 2 in the afternoon (four pints of beer may not sound like much, but the stout in the photo is 8.5% ABV). Good times.

In a very Texas touch, a grilling/catering outfit completely unconnected to the brewery sets up their tent outside the warehouse during the tour hours, and they serve up grilled chicken sandwiches, burgers, and bratwursts on a stick or bun. It was next to the grill tent that I snatched artifex's iPhone from her and snapped this photo.

Obviously I take any opportunity to share cleave-a-licious photos of my girl with all and sundry, but I really am impressed with the camera on her phone. Ten years ago, a digital camera that took photos this good would have cost as much as the iPhone did, and you wouldn't have gotten a telephone in the deal, let alone a GPS, PDA, and music player.

[Queen Tonya]

We have a large construction project at work, and thus a lot of rental equipment. United Rentals is a company we have a lot of stuff from, and they plaster all their equipment with 1-800-UR-RENTS. Someone's been getting creative with white and black tape lately.
I'm a dork who can't link right.


I still can't believe I didn't think of it first!

[Cluricaun]

I am bad at taking pictures, and the camera on the iPhone leaves a lot to be desired, that being said I present to you my morning driveway visitor, a 5 or 6 pound alligator snapping turtle:

[OneCentStamp]

Awwww, the little tortuga.

I can't believe you dislike the iPhone's camera. Maybe I just have a low threshold of contentment.

[Glazer]

Damn I saw OCS had posted to a pic thread and clicked in a hurry. Only to find that there is no new cleavage shots.

[Cluricaun]

I can't believe you dislike the iPhone's camera. Maybe I just have a low threshold of contentment.

Oh it's fine for a lot of things, it beats the snot out of the one on my old Blackjack II, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Like zoom, light settings, not making everything all blurry just because I haven't had a drink yet today and my hands are a little shaky, etc.

Also, that was not a little turtle. That fucker could take a finger off at the knuckle just for fun. I've tangled with my fair share of snapping turtles in my day and as much as I'd rather see them released back on their way I've had to dispatch a few too because they're kind of dangerous.

[OneCentStamp]

Oh it's fine for a lot of things, it beats the snot out of the one on my old Blackjack II, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

Seeing how I actually use artifex's old Blackjack II, it appears the answer would be yes: I do have a low threshold of contentment.