My GPS Camera Phone

Wordless Wednesday 22 contributed by Mirage at Mirage as Usual. Check out her other camera phone photos!

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Your GPS Camera Phone: guest post by Melinda at Funny Dog Picture.

I was at work a couple months ago and I saw an employee of mine at work on his day off walking out of the store with a large bulge in the front of his zip-up hoodie. It was apparent that there was something in his jacket and thinking that the only reason to do that is to steal, I went after him. Turns out he came in to try to get someone to switch shifts with him and did not want to leave his new puppy at home! When he pulled down the zipper and showed my the dog I had to pull out my cell phone and take a picture!

Taken with a Nokia 6133.

Do you have a camera phone? Do you have what it takes to be a guest poster on this blog? Are you ready to extent your online visibility to at least 10 more people?

If you answered “yes!” to all of the questions above, then you’re ready to become an honored guest blogger on My GPS Camera Phone, listed under the category, “Your GPS Camera Phone.” (Clever, I know.)

Here’s how it works:

• Take a picture with your camera phone.
• Send it to photos@mygpscameraphone.com along with some text that describes the image or whatever else you think it should say. Make it post-length.
• Get ready for Digg-like traffic. You get a solid link to your blog when (and if) I post your image.

OK, you won’t be inundated with traffic, but it will be fun. I’ve had great luck with posting the previous two guest bloggers, Shiera and Diane, though it was a test-run to see if I actually liked the idea. It turns out that I love the idea, hence, this post.

So be sure to wipe the lens clean before shooting and send me your photos! I’m eagerly awaiting your responses and hope to have something posted this week. If you have any questions before submitting, just contact me and I’ll get back to you right away.

Happy shooting!

Your GPS Camera Phone: guest post by Diane

I went out this afternoon on a very unseasonally beautiful sunny day to one of my favourite beaches in Dorset – Hive Beach at Burton Bradstock. I went out armed with my little Panasonic Lumix pocket camera but I forgot to put the memory card in it before I left home! I used my camera phone and I was surprised at the quality of these images I took with it.

Hive Beach forms part of Chesil Beach which is 18 miles long and in places it is separated from the mainland by a lagoon called the Fleet. The whole of the Dorset coastline has been designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO and is known as the Jurassic Coast. It stretches for 95 miles along Dorset and East Devon and is an area of outstanding natural beauty with amazing rock formations and areas of interest to geologists and fossil collectors alike. Read more at www.jurassiccoast.com.

Camera phone info: Nokia 6280 which has a 2 megapixel camera.
You can visit Diane at www.dianealdred.com.

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Ah, the smell of a new blog design.

In an attempt to package many ideas that have been brewing, I decided to go with Mimbo, a theme recommended to me by Opal about two months ago. It’s a magazine-style layout that offers up a lot of space for blog content in an easy-to-absorb format. The theme itself is insanely customizable, but hardly a simple undertaking, especially if you are afraid to dig into the code. I’m particularly fond of the latest post box and the category-based sections. While there are a few quirks with this theme, it is an incredible piece of work.

Being faced with a nice vacation, I decided now was the time. So after spending way too much time in front of the screen, here’s the nearly finished product.

Things to note:

• The “your gps camera phone” category is exactly that – a new section for guest blogging where you get to submit your photos and stories in return for a super-deluxe link back to your site. This should be rolled out in the next day or so. Stay tuned.
• I’ll be geo-tagging some (not all) photos in Google Earth and then posting the .KML/.KMZ file for you to download. It’s primarily going to be a log of all the user-submitted photos and some of my photos from around the area. This is also coming soon, hopefully in the next two or so days.
• Tutorials – they are coming. I’ll probably host them on Revver or somewhere and then embed them in the site to save bandwidth, but I’m not so sure yet. Anyone have experience with hosted video sites?
• The blogroll is on a separate page now, so if you see a link from my site drop off due to the theme switch, it should re-appear soon.
• The top commenter widget is no more, unless I can find a place to put it. Sorry, Joe.

If there’s more, I’ll be sure to let you know. Thanks to everyone for visiting and providing plentiful, sensible comments. It’s been fun so far, but the next year is going to be a blast. And you’re going to be a part of it.

Image credit: Geotrac, via Dreamstime.com.