Forgot to tote your Leica M or Sony A7r? If so, there’s nothing for it but to fire up the humble iPhone 5S. On many occasions the little phone has been a life saver
Vegetarians avert your gaze. This is Easter Sunday when the Greeks consume unfeasibly enormous quantities of lamb. Veggie moussaka is off the menu today. And here in the Aegean island of Mykonos the lambs are all home reared and were probably frolicking around only yesterday. Unfortunately, unlike for deities, there will be no resurrection for these little beasts.
This is one of the few occasions when I was caught napping without a camera. So, on the basis that the best camera in the world is the one in your pocket, I had to resort to the iPhone 5S and pretend it it was a real camera.
Lamb roasting is done on an industrial scale on Easter Sunday. As you see from the tangle of sockets and cables, “Elf n’ Safety” is not a top priority in Greece. In Britain we would need a full risk assessment before roasting a single chopThe head is the delicacy. This picture, from last Easter, was definitely not taken on an iPhone, nor on a Leica M. It was snapped on the Sony RX1, full-frame goodness in a very small package
