I take at least one photo a day and send it to Flickr. Often this one photo is from my cell phone and documents a moment in my morning commute, stopped at a stop light, grabbing a coffee at my local drive through, or perhaps parked at work. I use a Treo 650 that has data enabled on it, but any mobile with a camera (and the ability to email will work).

The first step is to set up a Flickr account (if you don't have one already). A basic account is free, a Pro account costs $24.95. The difference is that a free account limits the number of viewable pictures to 200 and allows limited bandwidth for transfers and the Pro account allows you unlimited viewable pictures ridiculous amounts of transfer bandwidth.

Once you have your Flickr account, you need to get yourself and email address from Flickr to send pictures to. You can use this to send pictures via regular email or from your cell phone. Anything you send this way has the defaults you set in your account. In other words, if your defaults are public don't be taking pictures you wouldn't want grandma to see. Go to http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/ and follow the instructions on this page. It should display an email address--something like toad94bearing@photos.flickr.com. Don't let anybody know your special email address--if they do, they could upload pictures to your account.

Once the email address is set up, snap a photo with your camera phone. In my case, after I snap a picture I have the option of emailing directly from the screen after the photo is taken. After you have sent the email, it takes just a few minutes and your photo will be in your Flickr stream.

I have used this extensively for photographing at conferences, at the grocery store, and so forth. It is instant gratification.

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