This Is How Many Photos It Takes To Destroy A Phone's Battery

It just wouldn't end.

Samsung said their Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is the best for phone battery life. So I tried to kill it after just one charge by taking a bunch of photos, thinking it wouldn't last very long at all. I was wrong. So very, very wrong.

Picture #1:

The first photo after waking up. And the worst because I can't function as a human before 10am.

And so my adventure began...

...with a lot of street art I'd never paid too much attention to before.

I swore one of these clouds looked like a dragon. Then again, I still hadn't had a coffee yet. So off I went to look for food.

I found food and decided to try to do the whole "food" photos thing...which I quickly realised I wasn't very good at.

I even did the whole standing-on-my-chair-to-try-to-get-one-of-those-cool-overshot-pics pics. But at that point, everyone in the café was staring at me as if I were the weird one. Also by that point I'd taken nearly 70 photos or so already. Thirty of those were of this epic bagel from 1 Abercrombie Lane.

Marlowe's Way

After my "food" photo shoot, I finally got to get a coffee at my favourite place to get one every morning, Marlowe's Way on Tank Stream Way.

At this point, I walked into work and realised I'd taken a lot of photos — and the battery was still kicking on at 100%.

After coffee, it was work time; however, I did spend most of that time trying to doodle stuff over my co-worker.

barriocellar.com.au

For lunch, I decided to venture out and try to find somewhere I hadn't been before. That's how I came across this cool spot, Barrio Cellar.

The fried chicken burger and agave old-fashioned were both awesome, but I was still mastering the art of "food porn" photography.

After the afternoon of me trying to be a food photographer and a few hundred photos later, the phone only just hit 75%. It was going to be a long night.

Luckily, there were some interesting things going on for me to check out and try to drain the battery with. But then I got hungry again. So I went in search for dinner.

Frankie's Pizza

The bright lights of Frankie's called my name with their New York–style by-the-slice pizza, the best in Sydney.

It's also one of the coolest places to go for a drink and check out live music.

I tried to smash a million photos of this badass band thinking it would dent the battery life. But the battery life was going nowhere.

I'd taken at least 400 pictures throughout the day, but the battery was kicking my ass. So I gave up and continued into the next day to keep going until it died.

Day 2:

I tried to take this "artsy" moving-from-the-train picture. You know the one, when you're listening to music while looking out the window pretending to be in a movie.

When I got to work, I decided to change up my tactics. It'd be selfie city from then on in an effort to kill the battery. So. Many. Selfies.

Work was crazy too, and because I thought this would be over the day before, I didn't have budget to go and do fancy lunch again. So I went with the staple ramen.

The ramen did it! It finally got to 50%. Then I cried a little, still realising there was so much to go.

I went back to the selfie attack...which went against my natural instincts never to take more than two selfies a day.

Like, not joking. This is the only time I've taken 100 selfies at once.

Day 3:

Flash-forward to day three after about 600 photos on what I deemed "selfie day." The battery? Still running.

Marlowe's Way

I went back to trying to be a food photographer, and I must say, finally by day three, I got a little bit better at it. Then again, this lunchtime pizza just looked epic.

After 650 photos I think I started to go a bit mad. So I decided to do a photo shoot with a flamingo.

It seemed to work a little. The flamingo was very photogenic.

Usually seeing your phone at 20% causes panic. But after three days, this was a bit of a relief.

At this point, I was dead. But the phone was still living.

I began just snapping away, anything and everything. I was up to 700 photos at this point.

I almost cried tears of joy when I saw the battery get to 5%. But I was a fool, thinking it was almost over. It still wasn't. Not even close.

Now officially crying for help.

Again, seeing a phone battery at 1% is usually a sad time. But not now.

Even though my face didn't show it, I was elated it was almost over. I just started piling on layers to see what would happen.

Picture #740:

This was the final picture before the battery cut out and faded to black. After three days and 740 photos, it was all over. RIP.

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All photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.