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# You Can't Do That With a Phone
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/you-cant-do-that-with-a-phone/
- Published: 2016-05-04T13:56:58.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-04T13:56:58.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers

You're hearing this less and less for technological reasons, but we should be hearing this less and less for creative reasons.

In 2009, when this [book](http://amzn.to/1SXkg0f?ref=cjchilvers.com) came out, shooting an entire project on just your iPhone was a radical idea. Now, it's common.

What's the next big thing to become common?

I'm writing a book on a phone.

I took these photos on an iPhone, at dusk, in a thunderstorm.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580179605-KBX4GCXCZH9SB660OYH6/image-asset.jpeg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/content/v1/5fb175dc7c803320180cf83a/1609580181554-7B9KUAILPM9GWP4HI0P9/image-asset.jpeg)

I'm not supposed to be able to do that.

I can't wait to figure out what I can do next using the least of equipment. The less that gets between my brain and end product the better.