Mountain ridgelines

Carry it up. Set it down.

Pocket Tripod on a ridge at dawn — Nobody else was up yet.

Pocket Tripod held in a palm at the summit — It weighed nothing on the way up.

Phone propped with mountains behind — Point it at the view and step in.

Pocket Tripod standing on rock — Any rock will do.

Ridgeline at dusk — Stayed for the light.

Phone on a railing above the clouds — Even a handrail works.

South Africa

Leave it standing above the clouds.

Pocket Tripod on a rock above the cloud line — Above the weather.

Phone facing a mountain — Nobody to hand the phone to.

Pocket Tripod in a palm above a sea of cloud — This came out of a pocket.

Phone set at a cliff edge — Closer to the edge than you would hold a phone.

Rocks at sunset — The last ten minutes of light.

Icelandic black sand

It stands on frozen sand.

Pocket Tripod on black sand — Sand this dark eats the light.

Phone set on ice, person mid-jump — You get to be in the jump.

Pocket Tripod on drift ice — It will stand on ice.

Phone resting on ice without sinking in — Light enough to leave on the ice.

Pocket Tripod on a rock the waves reach — The tide was coming.

Glacier lagoons and canyons

Set it down in front of the falls.

Phone facing a waterfall — Close enough to feel it.

A lake like a mirror — The reflection does the rest.

Runner filmed from the road — Nobody left behind the camera.

Pocket Tripod in a canyon — Down where the light turns blue.

Phone on a harbour railing — Railings work too.

Mossy forest, winter lake

It doesn't need level ground.

Person mid-jump in a forest — Both feet off the ground.

Pocket Tripod standing on moss — Moss is not level. It did not matter.

A jetty and still water — Waited for the water to go still.

Phone set on driftwood — Whatever is lying there will do.

Light through the trees — Good light does not wait for a tripod.

Snow and campfires

Leave it by the fire.

Shooting from beside a campfire — Nobody had to hold anything.

Autumn campsite — The evening everyone remembers.

Snow ridge behind the phone — Colder than it looks.

Standing on a snow ridge — Otherwise someone sits it out.

A record of the camp — Proof you were all there.

Desert

It doesn't sink into sand.

Pocket Tripod pitched on a dune face — Slopes are fine. Sand is fine.

Desert sunrise on the phone screen — Once in front of you, once on the screen.

A red Pocket Tripod on sand — It finds its own footing.

Facing the sunrise — Up before the heat.

Folded flat, the size of one card — Folded, it is just another card.

Dunes behind the phone — Dunes look bigger when you are in them.

Shoreline

To the water's edge, in a wallet.

Facing shallow water — It arrived in a wallet.

Shooting at the waterline — Closer to the water than you would stand holding it.

Pocket Tripod set on a rock — Rocks are underrated.

Legs open on the sand — Sand does not swallow it.

Shade on the beach — Shade, and nobody holding the phone.

Nothing behind but sea and sky — Just sea and sky behind you.

Botanical garden

Photograph yourself walking.

Walking, with the camera left standing — Walk away and still be in it.

Under a glasshouse arch — The architecture does the framing.

Pocket Tripod in a palm, greenery behind — Out of a pocket, into the ferns.

Propped between leaves — It will sit wherever there is a gap.

Light in the glasshouse — Glass ceilings make good light.

Stone, on the road

It stands on a ruin wall.

Ruins behind, camera left standing — Older than photography.

On a wall by the sea — The wall was already there.

Among the rocks — Uneven ground is the usual kind.

Pocket Tripod on a stone wall — Stone holds very still.

A dry hillside — Nothing extra to carry back down.

Skate park

Shoot fast things with your hands free.

A skater mid-air, camera left standing — Try that holding a phone.

Shooting from the lip of the bowl — The angle you cannot stand in.

Pocket Tripod set on a rail — A rail is a tripod if you let it.

Down in the skate park — Low, because you can leave it low.

Under the palms — Sessions run long. It does not mind.

Left standing at your feet — Set it down and skate.

Autumn lake

The person taking the photo gets to be in it.

Both of them in the frame — The one who always takes the photo, in the photo.

A portrait by the lake — Nobody had to ask a stranger.

Out of a wallet, straight to work — Ready before the moment passed.

The lake reflecting behind — The lake did half the work.

On a tripod, shooting a timelapse — Left running while the light changed.

In the autumn colour — Two weeks a year look like this.

Everyday

From a desk to a tray table.

The city at dusk behind — The city is the backdrop.

On an aircraft tray table — Tray tables were made for this.

Beside a laptop — It lives beside the laptop now.

Down on the grass — Grass, and nobody's arm in shot.

In among the cards in a wallet — Between a credit card and a hotel key.

The shutter remote

Nobody has to run back for the timer.

A woman sitting on rocks at dusk holding the shutter remote, with her phone on a Pocket Tripod in the foreground framing her — Press it from where you are sitting.

A hand holding the shutter remote high above the Manhattan skyline at dusk — Range enough to stand well back.

Close-up of a thumb pressing the shutter button on the black Bluetooth remote — One button. That is the whole interface.

The shutter remote on a keyring alongside house and car keys, held in a palm — It lives with your keys.

The shutter remote held against the folded Pocket Tripod, showing both are pocket sized — Both fit in the same pocket.

Details

What eleven grams is made of.

The adapters that hold the phone — These are what hold your phone.

Pocket Tripod from the back — About as thick as two credit cards.

Tilted — Any angle you can hold, it holds longer.

How the legs and adapters meet — No batteries. No electronics.

The quarter-inch mounting thread — The 1/4-20 thread every tripod speaks.

Limited lifetime warranty

Every unit individually tested and covered for life.

The right size, guaranteed

Any adapter size outside your kit ships free.

Invented, not licensed

Patented in the US, UK and China. 300,000+ shipped.