I am completely in awe with the quality of Pixel 10 Pro still images. I love the colors and the way it deals with difficult dynamic ranges.

I have photographed a lot of events through the years, starting with a "real" dslr camera and usually a couple of lenses - sometimes a flash.

Being weighted down with all that equipment was inconvenient and uncomfortable at best. Sitting down to eat and laying my camera on a table I was always concerned about food spilling on it.

Eventually I started taking pictures with my phone camera as well and little by little I realized that the phone was doing a better job than the "real" camera.

By the way, Andrew Aydin is a force for good. Here's a write-up about him from the annual luncheon program for the Democratic Women of Henderson County:

"Andrew Aydin is an award winning, #1 New York Times best-selling author and strategic adviser.

Aydin served nearly two decades in Federal and State government, including more than thirteen years on the staff of Representative John Lewis, primarily as Digital Director and Policy Advisor as well as Campaign Communications Director, among other positions.

As an author, Aydin is a National Book Award winner, a Coretta Scott King Book Award winner, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award winner, a Printz Award winner, a Sibert Medal winner, a Walter Dean Myers Award winner, a Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner, and a three-time Eisner award winner, among other awards and honors for his work as co-author of the seminal graphic novels March and Run with Representative John Lewis.

In 2024, Aydin founded the Appalachia Comic Project to help Appalachian people tell their stories through comics, beginning with a history of Hurricane Helene in which each chapter is co-written by a storm survivor from Western North Carolina and slated to be released later this year.

Aydin is currently writing Taste of Justice--about superheroes and food--for DC Comics, as well as FUSKIE, the graphic memoir of renowned Gullah chef Sallie Ann Robinson, for Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Aydin is a Creator-in-Residence at Georgia State University's Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) a member of the Board of Directors for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a 2025 LA Times Book Prize judge in the history category, as well as a strategic advisor to non-profit and mission-driven organizations.

Aydin is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Trinity College in Hartford, and the Lovett School in Atlanta. He is a third-generation resident of Edneyville, NC."