Good morning photokina.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate people personally but I do hate smoking, a bit because you often have to go (holding your breath) through a wall of smoke when leaving a hotel, building etc (all the people smoking outside) but most of all because some people will try to smoke in a hotel that is labelled NON SMOKING.

 

So at 7:30 this morning our iPhone gentle woke us up, and when we shut it off the smoke alarm went blaring, at first we thought something was wrong with the iPhone (annewieks iPhone has been playing up, time for me to get the 5, but I didn’t have anything to do with that ;))

 

So imaging me trying to lower the volume on the iPhone, almost hitting it before I put it to my ear and realizing there really was a smoke alarm, so throwing on some clothes, and running downstairs through the emergency staircase (and yes I’m afraid of heights and those suckers are scary) finding yourself in the center part of the hotel with a locked emergency exit, which after some work we managed to opened, after removing some overgrown plants (dangerous when there really would be a fire chasing you)
So we were all in front of the hotel police arrived, fire department, I hitting myself I left my camera in the room aaaaaaargh now I wish I left the Fuji next to my bed like +Zack Arias but that’s for the future.

 

Some jokes were flying like “so the new skyports are working ?”, “Yeah we had go and wanted you all together to say Bye”. And of course a lot of other stories, you know how it is when the smoke alarm goes off, right ?
Those are the days……….
Finally we found out it was someone in the room next to us who was smoking, on our way up we passed the firemen, one carrying a big hammer, I asked him If he hit the guy/women on the head with it…. Somehow he could not laugh 😉

 

Go figure.
Anyway we will be on time at photokina, and the first one that asks me if I smoke will get a free signed DVD today.

During one of the demos today I took some shots with my iPhone 4S under the available light.
As promised during the show, here are those images.
Retouching was done with Snapsneed from NIK.

These images were just taken for fun to show how quickly you can retouch something “funny/cools” on the iPhone and that at least you have the shot (the best camera is the one with you).