They say the best camera is the one that you have with you. Well I always have my iPhone with me, but its camera was pretty bad. Apple announced an 8 megapixel iPhone in the shape of the 4S with a much larger lens for things like macro and indoor photography. My walk around Sale Water Park was a test, but this close up of a fly on flowers wasn’t something I expected it to be able to cope with. I was so shocked that a camera phone was able to capture this image that I had to share it.

Close up photographs of flowers like this are extremely popular in the print market. Whenever I find myself in a home furnishings store I always make the time to look at the canvas prints and framed photographs to see what is popular. The problem with this image is the dark triangle on the right side of the frame. Still I liked the colour and texture enough to look past this and want to share it with you.

There are a lot of colours here, but if you look closely these are all pairs of earrings on a small display at a market in Rome. There were also dozens of independent earring sellers around the city centre who had displays of jewellry. I thought that the colours and shapes made for an interesting pattern photograph. We even purchased a few earrings as gifts for friends and family, although not from this particular stall.

Whenever I get my camera out by the sea, harbors are always places for me to focus my eye, particularly on the details. This old blue rope was wrapped around an even older looking and probably retired fishing boat in Abersoch, North Wales. I don’t like the black piece of piping in the foreground, but the textures and colours on this rope made me want to capture a record of it.