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I dunno - on our recent trip to Sicily I used my phone once in a while, instead of my small Nikon camera, and I like the phone pictures (most of what I've posted here in the last month or so) better than the camera ones of the same general shot. It certainly did better at night photography, though the camera has high potential ISO settings. Anyway, the saying is that the best camera is the one you have with you.

I must admit I'm more and more impressed by what phones can do. This is a lovely landscape and I'd think every bit as good as a consumer level pocket camera could have taken.

To my mind the culprit here is not the camera but the Great Evil of photography -- daylight white balance. It's too blue, and photos taken with it are often overwhelmed by blue. This is a particular problem in winter, when the camera picks up the blue from the sky that has reflected off the snow. Our eyes don;t detect that, so the photos come out full of blue snow.

So converting to cloudy white balance with this shot might help. This is a fine photograph, well-composed with good detail, but it might benefit from a ruddier complexion.

Actually, the iPhone does the opposite, it skews towards yellow, not blue, and the original of this was much too warm. In color-correcting, I may have gone too far the other way ...! I could make another attempt, but don't think it's worth it. As Steve notes below, the iPhone is much more effective for close shots.
I really need a new camera, but right now, I'm too preoccupied with other matters.

Actually, it seems to me most people like shots with a lot of blue. Maybe my S-cones are more sensitive to blue than most people's. In other words, I have the S-cone blues.

I’d agree with John about the blue. I think the iPhone is much more effective in close to the subjects.

Thank you, see my response above.