Scott and I, as previously noted, walk a 1.5 mile circuit together twice a week. Walking is good for what (separately) ails us both, but walking may not be, um, the most interesting, or challenging of exercises. So, naturally we fill in the otherwise-awkward silence by talking about interesting things.

In our case, those topics come down to technology, photography and the incredible good luck we both had in marrying such delightful spouses. Really, this is what we talk about.

Sometimes we talk about Tiger Lily, Scott’s King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, but she hasn’t been with us lately, what with Scott in a sling, and me still gimping my way to recovery. Lily, Scott’s wife decided, was a bit more energy than we geezers needed to be dealing with in our current respective configurations.

So, this morning, Scott was demoing Best Camera (named for the concept that your best camera is the one you have with you) a Photoshop-filter-like app that runs on his 3G iPhone (which has a pretty remarkable camera built in) which allowed him to snap a picture, enhance it and immediately upload it to a sharing site.

I, a veteran of the very early digital-imaging wars, back when rotating a picture required a computer so powerful it was on the Defense Department’s restricted munitions list, looked on agog. Scott snapped and published a very nice study of autumn leaves in something like the time it once took me to advance the film in my old clockwork Nikon or Leica cameras…

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