CAMERA PHONE

What’s the best camera for a fly angler? The one you have in your hand. These days everyone has a camera phone and, it seems, everyone is using them to document fly culture. Flyfish Journal photo editor Copi Vojta has curated a collection of images that demonstrate the camera phone’s ability to tell a story, convey emotion and portray an honesty that make these phones important part of any angler’s gear bag. While the photographers in this gallery are fully capable of creating awe-inspiring images using the latest DLSR cameras, here they used the right camera at the right time—that moment when everything came together.

“The same photography teacher who taught me that art is a four-letter word also taught me that a camera is a tool. Like fly rods, some are expensive and shiny and others are worn and dull. Some cameras are light and fit in a pocket and others need a bullet/water/dog-proof case the size of a grouper. The lesson is that the moments these tools can capture aren’t dependent upon the kind of camera. No matter what you spent on your fly rod, you’ll still cast to both impossible and easy fish.”

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The Flyfish Journal Volume 5 Issue 3 Feature Everything Came Together

Clockwise From Top Left “There’s a small salt flat ringed by sage and scorched earth outside of Sparks, NV, on the side of I-80. To me, the spot is really magical even though I’ve never actually stopped my truck to check it out. Every time I drive past, without fail, it happens to be sunset, sunrise or dusk.”

“This is an iPhone photo of an iPhone photo on the screen of an iPhone. How do you take a half-underwater photo with such a broken phone? I had a Lifeproof case on my phone when my friends pulled their boats out of the Henry’s Fork, but I didn’t have it on when I dropped the phone off a 60-foot cliff while rock climbing”. Location: Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, ID.

Deep cuts. Cameraphones – and their waterprood cases – have opened underwater photography to everyone, causing much embarrassmnent to trout everywhere. Location: Wasatch Mountains, UT.

Photos: Sean Kerrick Sullivan

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