Critics have found it difficult to believe that photos like this one were taken on a smartphone. | Steve Scott Grogin Logging into his profile on the 35 Awards photo competition, Steve Scott Grogin received a notification telling him his photo of an alligator’s eye had been disqualified from the Mobile Phone category. The reason? The organizers believed it had been taken with “professional camera equipment.” Grogin tells PetaPixel that’s not true, and he shot the photo the same way he shoots the rest of his work: with a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra using Samsung Expert RAW format. Alligator and turtle. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Grogin uses an extendable selfie stick paired with a Bluetooth remote shutter release to capture water-level images of alligators, frogs, snakes, moths, insects, and swamp species.…