You Won’t Believe These 15 Photos Were Taken by a Smartphone

15 smartphone photographs that will make you keep your DSLR at home.

Study Room, Chumbi Mountain Resort, Pelling, Sikkim, India. Photo taken with Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge by Siddhartha Sharma.

Nothing illustrates the sheer quality of phone cameras more than the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Disclaimer: the company paid for a bunch of us technology journalists to go to a remote vacation spot, Pelling in Sikkim for a ‘photo walk’.

So the phone boasts of a 16 megapixel camera with Optical Image Stabalisation (OIS) and a super-fast f/1.9 lens.

Upfront the phone has a 5-megapixel sensor, which is rapidly becoming the norm, and the 120—degree wide angle selfie mode is also pretty neat.

See the results for yourself. All the pictures were taken by the Galaxy S6 Edge. 

Pemayangtse Monastery, in Pemayangtse, near Pelling, Sikkim India. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Milestone at Central Pelling. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Worship area of the Ruins of Rabdentse Palace, the second capital of the former kingdom of Sikkim from 1670 to 1814. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Pemayangtse Monastery, in Pemayangtse, near Pelling, Sikkim India. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Pemayangtse Monastery, in Pemayangtse, near Pelling, Sikkim India. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Study Room, Chumbi Mountain Resort, Pelling, Sikkim, India. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Chumbi Mountain Resort, Pelling, Sikkim, India. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Prayer stones at Khecheopalri Lake, originally known as Kha-Chot-Palri a sacred Lake for both Buddhist and Hindus, which is believed to be a wish fulfilling lake near Pelling Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Way to Khecheopalri Lake at Pelling, Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Prayer Flags at Khecheopalri Lake at Pelling, Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Khecheopalri Lake at Pelling, Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

This man earns his living ferrying people near the Kanchandzonga Waterfalls, Pelling Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Entry to Kanchandzonga Waterfalls, Pelling Sikkim. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Prayer Flags at The Coronation Bridge, that spans across the Teesta river, connecting the districts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)

Prayer Flags at The Coronation Bridge, also known as the Sevoke Bridge, in Darjeeling District of West Bengal that spans across the Teesta river, connecting the districts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri. (Photo: Siddhartha Sharma)