The world through my Phone...
 

My office just issued me a brand spankin' new Treo 600 and one of the neat things on this PDA/Phone is a camera...

It is a pretty lousy camera as digital camera's go but I have had fun taking pictures of people and objects as seen by me.

I am hoping to make this a daily "as seen/scene by me" kind of thing...

Here is my first one.

This is a co-worker of mine busy at work... she is in Seattle this week and I am stuck in my office.
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My trip on the street car a couple of mornings ago... When my car was broken into and all my stuff stolen, they also got the keys to my Vespa... it was the only set I had. With no way to unlock the scooter I was resigned to take the streetcar to work.

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Public transportation can be in a pain in the ass. Or at least it is for me in the mornings when i don't wanna walk all the way across campus to go not pay attention in class.

I just arrived at the office and was getting my head together when I snapped this... It is the window ledge right beside my desk... Apparently today will be sunny and warm (29C). Me, I get to spend it indoors stressing about my trip to Munich next week...
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Great pics, Charlatan. It's fun to see a slice of your life. Keep us in the loop.

(PS I kinda miss TO)

I had a hell of a time the last couple of days... My Vespa got a flat while I was going 70km/h in traffic... I managed to keep it upright and got off the road... got the tire fixed and was driving home when it poppped again... bloody hell. Stupidly, I didn't get any pictures...
(I'm still getting used to the idea that I have a camera all the time...)

What I have is a cool shot of my son I took while we were walking to breakfast this morning... I really liked the effect I got.

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that flat must have been one hell of a trip, but now it's all over (and it all turned out ok) you've got one hell of a memory! i kinda envy you... all the adrenaline...
pics are cool, especially the last one.

Charlatan, I really hate to ask you this, but has your son been watching a video tape with a dead chick in a well? :)

Cool effect on the picture, I agree.

fhqwhgads, why yes he has... about a week ago...

I am extremely busy today getting ready for a sales trip to Munich and a sales market in Cannes. Way too much prep work but a successful trip is all about the prep...

My Mom came over on the weekend and we took my daughter out for a popsicle while we had coffee... What is it about the last peice of popsicle that it always falls off...
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Well, my flight to Munich yesterday was rather bonus... I was at the gate, speaking to my wife on the phone when I heard my name being called over the loudspeakers... Turns out they'd oversold the flight and needed to make room in steerage... Can you say UPGRADE? Nothing beats a free upgrade.

So far I am stuck in Unterfoering... a suburb of Munich. Most of my meetings are out here and there were no rooms available downtown during Octoberfest.

Here is a picture of the shoe shine machine in the stairwell... I want one of these for my house...
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Finally made it downtown to marienplatsz today... had a very good beer in the shadow of the Golden Virgin Mary column. I also found a really cool vintage clothing store where I bought an army surplus parka from my son and a very sweet leather jacket for myself.

Here is my cab driver's arm as I was racing back to the hotel for dinner with a client...
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Ok... I've been way too busy to update this so I will now engage in a bit of flood to get caught up...

A lion a saw on my stroll to the Modern Art Museum, an excellent collection of German Expressionism!
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The museum is relatively new and was beautiful right down to the urinals (DuChamps eat your heart out)
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My flight to Nice from Munich was very early in the morning... getting up at 4am is tough when you don't get any sleep...
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I arrived in Cannes, early, exhausted and my room was not ready... Luckily my hotel has a great breakfast...
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The cool thing about this phone is that when I am shopping for things for my family I can fire off an email with a picture attached and get my wife's OK... Here is one of a pair of boots I bought for my daughter...
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The market was really busy... we are selling the Michael Jackson film that debuted on VH1 in August and I didn't have time for lunch all week. On Thursday I made a point of getting out of the Palais and having an hour to myself... I wandered a bit and then had a sandwich in a little cafe on the Rue d'Antibes... which is still underconstruction...
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On the last night in town, I was by myself... my colleagues had flown out earlier in the day and I was to fly out at 6am the next morning... That's what I get for booking my flight so late - no available flights on the day I want to leave.

So I treated myself to a dinner in my absolute favourite restaurant in all of Cannes... it is a little place on the Suquet called Gavroche... if you are ever there, I recommend it highly.
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Really cute boots!

very nice. thanks for sharing.

I'm new here, and I read through the rules when I registered. Would this picture violate the rules (assuming the "son" in question is under 18 years old)? It seems a little goofy if that is, indeed, the case. Neat effect.

Probably but he is utterly impossible to ID as even being human so, I'm not going to worry about it...

Saturday was a perfect day... the weather was amazing... I was hanging out with my kids... the leaves were crunching beneath my feet... I love the fall.
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poolside at the Shangri la in Singapore... at times life is good...
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I love seeing your adventures.
nice restaurant shots.

ah I am jealous, such fabulous adventures and beautiful boots.

and bread. fantastic. :)

intersting urinals and nice cabs. someday I will leave the States again!

thanks for sharing :)

animosity and yellowchef... thanks for the comments. I was beginning to wonder if anyone looked at these at all...

Here are a couple shots I took from the 22nd floor of the hotel I stayed in whille in Jakarta last week... Hotel ALiLa. The pictures don't really do justice to the sprawling chaos that is Jakarta...

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Here are some shots of the highway salesmen... I am stuck in traffic, hell it's all traffic in Jakarta, on a highway. It would the equivalent of an Interstate in the US or a 400 series highway here in Toronto.

Suddenly there are men walking between the traffic selling snacks, newspapers, water, pictures of the new president, etc. It makes perfect sense but was just odd when I realized I was on a highway...
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A cool effect... sunset in Jakarta
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Apparently it snowed while I was away, but that doesn't really count...

It snowed this Saturday past though and that, to me, is the first snow of the season!
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I took these as I walked home from Kendo practice, the park is just a couple blocks from my house... In the last shot you can see some enterprising young types taking advantage of the snow to partake in some excellent tobogganing!

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This is my gargoyle... there are many gargoyles like him but this one is mine... (and he's got a dusting of snow to boot!)
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Hey I experienced that snow storm this past weekend! Driving through it from New Market back to Kitchner wasn't much fun though :(

I love this series...

Driving in the snow is never (well rarely) fun. But there is just something magical about the first snow of the season. Unfortunately almost all of it has melted now... Wow, Newmarket... you were so close, just a 40 minute drive down the 404 to Toronto...

Why does your employer feel the need to provide a shoe shine machine?

My employer likes me to have really shiny shoes... so he has managed to have shoe shine machines placed conveniently in all the hotels I stay in... Just like the one I took a picture of in the stairwell of a Munich Hotel (see above).

very interesting compostitions

As I mentioned here -- http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...postcount=1205 -- The Sun was out this morning and this is what I saw...
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Not to be a butthead, but shouldn't this thread be in Tilted Photography?

Regardless, great pics, especially considering they came out of a camera phone.

reminds me of the view Charlie and his Grandpa get while they're in the Wonkavator