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About a month ago I became the proud owner of my first Smartphone: an Apple iPhone 5. Say it isn’t so!!!! Am I crazy for crossing-over to the dark side? Only time will tell but the good news is I haven’t become one of “those” people who carry their cell phone as if it were an intravenous therapy bag. Why would I join the billions of shallow clones containing the social skills of Sheldon Cooper? This may sound silly but it had nothing to do with texting, email, or the standard phone call.

While there were several reasons for my interest in a Smartphone the bottom line was simple: Stealth Photography. That’s right, the days of being escorted out of grocery stores, concerts, department stores, federal buildings, etc., all because I had a professional grade camera roped around my neck will be a thing of the past. And don’t bug me concerning the 8 megapixels. My first ever published photo printed by Portland Monthly Magazine over three years ago was shot with a $299.99 8-megapixel point ‘n shoot camera so this is where the whole it-is-not-the-camera-but-the-person-behind-the-camera thing comes into play.