Flags and electrolier

I remember the time when I thought that digital cameras had started to produce photographs that were technically better than those possible with 35mm film. My recent purchase of a new phone demonstrated that the digital photographs that it produces are bettter than the "compact" digital cameras of only a few years ago. Since I don't change my phone very often it could be that the date phones surpassed compacts was even earlier than I imagine. I took several shots with my phone to test its competency and show this one as an example of what it can achieve. The electrolier and flags were in the window of an antique shop, and the colours, reflections and glowing filaments made a composition that appealed to me.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

16:9 mute swan

An evening walk by the River Wye produced this photograph of a mute swan swimming upstream across the gold-tinted water. I aimed for a composition with the sun at the top left and the swan at the bottom right, and had an idea that an image with a 16:9 ratio would suit the shot best. When my pocket camera, many years ago now, was a Lumix LX3, I could quickly select this ratio with an on-body switch. On the Sony RX100 that task requires paging through the on-screen menu - something that in this instance would have meant missing the shot.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100