Earlier this year, I got a BlackBerry Curve 8900. The phone has a 3 megapixel camera, and while I’ve never been impressed with the quality of photos produced by smartphones, there’s something about the pictures this one takes that makes them seem almost other-worldly: the colors are intense, and there’s an interesting graininess to the shots. I resized all of these in Photoshop in order to fit them here, but the quality of the images remain intact.

The photo above was shot at Top Golf in Wood Dale in June.

Busse Woods.

Superdawg.

Patio on a summer evening.

Firepit.

Smores and the Grundig Satellit 700.

Heading north on the Fox River at Northwest Highway/UPRR Northwest Line tracks.

Berghoff Oktoberfest: September 17 2009.

The heck with Talk Like a Pirate Day– here’s Drinking Like a Pirate.

Neon sign at Scooby’s in Arlington Heights.