My iPhone snapshots 2012

Rainbow orange tiles in the ladies’ loo at the Kuku Club, Park Hotel, Cardiff, December 6, 2012. Click on the picture to go to my blog post about the colour…

As the title of this gallery suggests, these are just snapshots taken with my iPhone 4 camera. The quality and clarity are a bit variable.

I am starting to find this sort of photography addictive, as it is so easy – no need to carry a “proper” camera, just point and click when you see something that interests you.

Mostly this has been Cardiff street scenes and, of course, nature.

It’s a feeling I haven’t had since my first Kodak Instamatic 133 camera.

The newest iPhone pictures go on top of the gallery, so hopefully an improvement in my technique will be observed!

For my 2011 iPhone snapshots click here…

Cardiff Library illuminated for Christmas, December 3, 2012…

Fallen maple leaves, October 25, 2012

The same as below, but on September 24 – the larva is now looking more like a ladybird/ladybug – probably an invasive harlequin – and no one has knocked it off the bus stop yet!

Ladybird (ladybug) larva at the bus stop, September 20, 2012…

The Hayes, Cardiff, September 2012 – former David Morgan building – this section was built in 1902…

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – Hebe in a garden

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – ragwort and rocks

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – ragwort on the shore

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – wild barley

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – mallow on the shore

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – distant oystercatchers – I wish I had taken my proper camera with me!

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – ruined building

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – tree

Baiter, Poole, August 2012 – kiteboarder and clouds

Baiter area, Poole, August 2012 – great golden roadster!

Clouds over Poole Harbour, Dorset, August 2012

Red ivy, Cardiff, July 2012…

Lime (linden) tree, Cardiff, May 27, 2012…

A beech hedge (Fagus sylvatica), May 2012…

One of the seagulls that live behind our Media Wales office, on a morning in May 2012…

Sycamore leaves (Acer pseudoplatanus) overhanging the pavement, May 9, 2012…

Living legend Rolf Harris was in our Media Wales office on May 8, 2012, to film for his series on Welsh art – he was looking at the work of our former cartoonist Gren Jones. I took Rolf shopping for pens but didn’t dare ask for his autograph or a picture! This is his tour vehicle, next to our little white Fiat 500 pool cars…

Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber) on a wet wall, April 29, 2012...

Speedwell (Veronica, but I'm not sure which species) on a wet wall, April 29, 2012...

USDAW (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) mural, Cardiff city centre, April 2012...

Herb Robert beside the road, April 2012...

Bluebells beside the street, Cardiff, April 2012 - by their blue anthers I think they are the Spanish bluebell Hyacinthoides hispanica, not the delicate native species...

Cherry blossom in Cathays, Cardiff, April 2012...

Odd-shaped ivy leaf, April 2012...

Wet ivy on a wall, April 2012...

I love the iridescent colour of this car, pictured near my office in Cardiff, April 2012...

They seem to have cleaned up the front of Cardiff Indoor Market, April 2012...

Forsythia growing in a Cardiff garden alongside the street, March 23, 2012...

The Six Nations rugby trophy visited our newspaper office on March 16, 2012, the eve of the last games in this year's tournament - behind it you can see its metal carrying cases. Next day Wales won it - and achieved a Grand Slam, beating all five other countries...

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, March 14, 2012 - huge poster of Wales rugby stars Jonathan Davies, Sam Warburton and George North...

Mist in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, first thing on March 15, 2012...

Huge amount of black fruit on this Fatsia japonica, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, March 14, 2012

Iron gates of Swalec Stadium, Cardiff, March 14, 2012...

Acid-green Euphorbia and daffodils in the gardens between St John the Baptist Church and the Old Library, Cardiff city centre, March 6, 2012

White Lenten hellebores in the gardens between St John the Baptist Church and the Old Library, Cardiff city centre, March 6, 2012

Lesser celandine on a roadside wall, February 8, 2012