Gallery: Cell Phone Photographs

Shawn Rocco, a photojournalist at the News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, snapped these photographs using the camera on his Motorola E815 cell phone. With patience and practice, Rocco said, just about anyone can coax good photos out of their cell phone cameras.

Rocco, who is also the author of a book of cell phone photographs and a blog called cellular obscura, spoke with TechNewsDaily recently and offered some tips on cell phone photography.

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