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Recently, I realized that my iPhone gets a lot more photo action than my lovely nikon digital SLR. The photos I take with my phone are nothing like photography. They are documentation.

The phone camera is a kind of sketch pad that collects quick images of whiteboard drawings, interesting plants, spontaneous charm of the kid, a sign in Spanish with words for me to look up later. These bits and pieces appeal to me.

I picked up a flip video camera to see if capturing a few seconds of my life at a time has this same sort of attractive utility. So far, I am rather pleased.

update: there is a video in this post…sometimes it shows up