They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and this was all too true during a recent wedding in Italy. On my first night in the small village of San Paolo Albanese, I was enjoying a late night Peroni with the bride and her maid of honour when we suddenly smelt smoke. All the locals rushed to the Town Hall to get a view of what was going on and it quickly became apparent that the trees just outside the village were on fire. My camera bag was safely locked away in my apartment but I did have my trusty iPhone 4S with me and so I followed the Italians down the road to observe them as they battled the flames. Obviously I made sure I didn’t get too close as I was there to document a wedding, not the fire, but none-the-less the photojournalist in me couldn’t resist taking a shot or two of the Italian fire brigade at work.

I am pretty stunned by the quality of this low light iPhone photograph. Sure it’s grainy, but it was so dark on the road that night I am amazed that the tiny little sensor in the iPhone managed to capture anything at all.