The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You is a phrase I have heard and seen written down quite a few times, there is even a book with the same title by photographer Chase Jarvis  which contains some stunning pictures taken on an Apple iphone. For the most part I tend to agree with the statement, but there have been moments that I wished I had been carrying a dslr or compact instead of only having a camera phone to hand. I have had some potentially wonderful photo opportunties ruined by truly awful image quality that no amount of photoshop can really ever fix. Perhaps revising the phrase to The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You, except when it isn’t would be more appropriate

Here is the orginal example of a photograph taken on an HTC xda, taken at St Bee’s Cumbria shocking image quality.

And here is my attempt to create something more appealing using Adobe lightroom, hopefully I will learn and not be lazy in the future so I don’t miss so many golden opportunites.