The owner of a stolen iPhone with iCloud enabled received a photo of the thieves... in shorts. The Best Cell Phone Photos Jeremy Kern works at a children's hospital in Washington, D.C., and makes photography his creative passion.

Simply stealing someone else's smartphone is half the battle; you also need to understand the basics of its operation so as not to be ridiculed throughout the country. At the instigation of the Daily Mail, most of the UK media are actively discussing the personal life and color of the underpants of two unlucky thieves.

In the company's smartphone they recently stole Apple The function of automatically sending pictures to the cloud has been activated iCloud, and in Lately with its help, more and more phone thieves are unwittingly collecting incriminating evidence on themselves.

The story of Becky Brinklow, a 27-year-old nurse, began simply - one last weekend she was having lunch at a restaurant on the waterfront in Southend, Essex. Her attention was directed to her one-and-a-half-year-old son, so all that she could later extract from her memory was that two strangers approached her table and one impudently stole a slice of French fries from her plate. And while Brinklow, surprised by the impudence, came to her senses, the second one stole iPhone, more likely.

This did not cause her any problems other than momentary grief - the device was insured and the very next day Becky Brinklow happily unpacked a brand new smartphone from the box. And when I decided to synchronize the device with my account in iCloud, I was quite surprised by the increased number of photographs. Since she herself did not photograph any men in family underpants, it turned out to be easy to understand the situation. The function of automatically sending new pictures also works properly on the phone in the hands of thieves, who seem to be completely unaware of it. The repository is regularly replenished with photos of two “macho” guys - athletic guys, not burdened with intelligence, who take pictures of themselves on the beach, in bars, etc.

And then the continuous triumph of i-technologies begins - Apple We should thank the thieves for such an extraordinary advertisement. What Miss Brinklow is most pleased about is that with the loss iPhone she did not lose the photographs of her little son, which were preserved safe and sound in the cloud. In an interview with reporters, the girl sincerely praised iCloud for the fact that almost all important information from her stolen smartphone was saved. Parting with the phone itself does not sadden her much - using the service Find iPhone(Find My iPhone), she has already blocked the device.

It is worth noting that for the majority of poorly educated criminals iPhone It's just an expensive accessory, not a high-tech device. And therefore, the number of similar incidents has been growing almost exponentially since the beginning of summer. For example, on the Tumblr microblogging service, the blog “The Life of the Stranger Who Stole My Phone” has been steadily popular for a month now. A young German tourist, having arrived in Ibiza with friends, first of all got drunk in a bar and then went swimming naked - the natural result was the loss of all valuables, including the iPhone. However, the automatic upload function did not fail this time either - upon returning home, the tourist started a microblog, where he regularly publishes fresh photos taken by the thief. As it turned out, he lives in Dubai and doesn’t even know about his newfound fame in the world - the young man’s personal life is in plain sight.

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The judges chose best shots from thousands of images and announced the winners of the eighth annual IPPAWARDS photo competition.

A wonderful combination of light and shadow highlight this image by Daniele Colomber, who took first place in the Portrait category.

“I take photos with my phone because this is the future,” Jesse Alkire writes on his website. Here is the shot that brought Alkira first place in the “News and Events” category

Photographer Song Han lives and works in Chengdu, China. This shot brought him victory in the “People” category.

This mesmerizing photo taken by Xu Liying shows fish being dried. The shot won in the “Food” category

André Malherbi won first prize in the Panorama category with this fantastic orange cloud

Spanish competitor José Luis Saez Martinez started using an iPhone instead of a DSLR camera in 2011. This photo brought him first place in the “Other” category.

For more than 10 years, Sefi Bergerson worked as an advertising and commercial photographer, and now lives in India and shoots in the documentary genre. The judges named this photograph the best in the Animals category.

"I took this photo at Silvermine Nature Reserve while documenting the aftermath of the fire that devastated Cape Town in March this year," wrote Amy Patterson, 23, who won the Flower category.

Yvonne Naughton took first place in the Nature category for taking this photo during an early morning walk in Snee Oosh Beach, Washington

Jeremy Kern works at a children's hospital in Washington, D.C., and enjoys photography as a creative passion. He took this photo during a trip to Haiti and won in the Children category.

Robert Radizik took first place in the Sunset category with this photo from Trieste, Italy

Chris Belcina won the Landscape category with a photo taken at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.

It's been a crazy winter. Snow drifts in Michigan were more than three and a half meters high when Heather Goss took the photo that earned him first place in the Seasons category.

Ahmed Said writes that the village of Gharb Sehel is filled with “colorful houses, kind, warm people and stunning views of the Nile.” He won first place in the Travel category

Ecuadorian Fabio Alvarez was relaxing on the beach in Rio when he happened to take this photo, which brought him victory in the Lifestyle category.

Admire the central library of Stuttgart, Germany. Christian Frank won an award in the Architecture category for this serene photo.

Essential photo by Cindy Busk won first place in the Still Life category

Ruaridh McGlynn took a series of photographs of trees in Qatar, but this image is perceived in a special way

Yvonne Lu took third place with a photo of passengers falling asleep on a train during a trip to New York. “It looks like this couple doesn’t need anything else in the world,” says the photographer

Second place went to David Craik, who needed a lot of patience to capture these starlings with a shadow on a white wall. "Some may think I'm crazy, but one of the most exciting things about wildlife photography is the anticipation," he says

First place went to Michal Koralewski from the Polish city of Poznan, who says that he could not help but photograph this musician, since “the story of his life could almost be read from the wrinkles on his face.”