In the course of my exploration of photography as a means to produce art, I've used film based cameras, developing and processing the film in a dark room. I moved on to simple "point and shoot" cameras by Sony and Nikon. I've used digital SLRs (a Nikon D70s and Nikon D90) and when I haven't had a camera with me, I've used my mobile phone; an iPhone (various models) for the last (probably) 10 years. As technology accelerates and leads to greater leaps in camera abilities within the ubiquitous mobile devices we carry with us, the photography that is produced by mobile devices will only get better. It's already gotten better with the ability to shoot "wide" and "telephoto" on some models of mobile phones. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will also help quickly compute proper exposure and ensure a great "shot" in most circumstances.

But at the end of the day, photography remains an artistic pursuit that is contingent on the eye of the artist, the photographer, composing an interesting shot for their audience.