It is such an amazing time to be a creative person. These days, you can carry a full HD camera in your pocket, and you can edit video on your iPhone. Your digital SLR doesn’t just take great pictures. It produces the same HD quality you would get out of a top of the line video camera. What on Earth is happening? I don’t quite know, but it’s making the life of a creative so much easier than it ever was.

When you watch Chase Jarvis’ new video where he road tests the Nikon D7000, you get a clear sense of where the world is headed. Chase took a trip with a few friends out to the desert, capturing some jaw-dropping still photography and professional quality video – all on the same digital SLR camera. He had a blast enjoying complete and total creative freedom.

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In this final series of VIEW: videos, I detail who inspired me from the first picture through to today’s exceptional photographers, which include Chase Jarvis and Dustin Snipes.

Inspiration is by its very nature can arrive at any moment. I remember a blog post or video from Chase that he mentions that he sometimes wakes up during the night with some immediate thoughts that he just has to write down. If I recall, he even talks about having a notepad beside his bed. I’m not sure if that will ever happen with me, because when I’m asleep, I’m really asleep.

But this video isn’t about how to do it or when, but the people that I have looked up to during the weeks and months and even years of doing this fun filled work I do called photography.

Renowned, award-winning action photographer iPhone photography project. “The best camera is the one that’s with you,” he says, and for Chase, that camera is his iPhone.

Chase takes photos, edits them using applications in his iPhone, and shares them on his Twitter and his iPhone photography site. He takes between one up to a thousand photos in this, and shares the ones he thinks are his best to the world. And if you’ve seen his iPhone photos, there will be no question in your mind that indeed, taking remarkable photos has little to do with the camera you use. Like Chase, all you really need is an eye for photography and a handy dandy camera like the iPhone.

A photo taken by Chase using his iPhone

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“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”

And for Chase Jarvis, that camera would be his iPhone.

A lot of people complain that the iPhone camera isn’t good, and that it doesn’t take good photos. Well, Chase successfully proved with this project that a “good photo” is not defined by a cutting-edge camera, but rather, by the one who takes the shot. He takes between 1 to 1000 photos every day, he says, and to some that may be a tad too obsessive. Well when someone really loves what he does, and he has the thing he needs to do it all time, why shouldn’t he?

Chase shares at least one photo everyday, taken and directly uploaded from his iPhone, through his iPhone photo gallery contains his favorite shots, completely untouched by Photoshop and are post processed using only iPhone applications.

Here are some photos Chase took using…

Chase Jarvis, at 37, is a highly successful photographer for someone his age.

But photography wasn’t the first career path Chase pursued. His interest in photography began at school, where he was an athlete and is often photographed by his father and grandfather (and the local newspaper). Chase’s life, though he didn’t realize it at first, changed when his grandfather died and left him his camera equipment. He then began learning to work behind the camera (instead of being in front).

Chase was about to begin his Masters in Philosophy when he realized that pursuing a career in photography was what he actually wanted. He had been submitting photos to some magazines and he realized that he can make money from the photos he took. He has a knack for sports photography and his talent was apparent from the photos he took, and soon enough, in 1996, he got his first big break—he struck a deal with a big outdoor sports…

When you’re only 37 and you’re already one of the most respected photographers in the country (so much that you’re the first person EVER Nikon trusted to test and play with one of their most anticipated products, the D90) and has already won a handful of awards, then you can safely say that you’re a very successful man.

But not if you’re as down-to-earth as Advertising Photographers of America (which describes him as an “innovative thinker with his head completely up in the sky”) in Action, Sports and Adventure category for not just one, and not even two, but four years (2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008), or if you’re the youngest photographer to be named

I’m not trying to steal anything from Chase here. So today I would like every one of you to find a few photos that you have taken and post them. Here are the instructions from his site.

1. ‘Become a fan’ on my Facebook fan page. (NOT my personal page, but the FAN page. Follow that link…)
2. Under the “wall” tab in the ‘what’s on your mind’ window atop the page, write your name and a url if you’d like.
3. In that same window, directly below where you just wrote your name, click on the ‘add photos’ icon.
4. Upload your favorite mobile image. No limit to the number of entries. Anyone can enter, from anywhere in the world.
5. When you win, I’ll send you my iphone in the mail. Easy peasy.

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So yes, I’ve been caught. Looking at the new Canon 5D MarkII. I was walking around the city with a old friend of mine on Monday at lunchtime who runs a magazine here in Australia called Bluff magazine. He was wanting some advise on some new camera gear and I was more than happy to assist, given that I now had an opportunity to look through some of the larger retailers in the CBD. These certainly can’t compare to anything in the US or Asia. And they certainly aren’t a B&H!

So anyway, we walked around the major stores and we ended up looking more closely to the Canon range of Digital SLRs – not much bias from me … (cough cough). This is what I feel more comfortable in chatting about. And I do know whats on offer more so than any other range.

Let me fast forward a little to me. I was showing my friend…