Most of the time my photos on a bike trip are where I stopped, put my feet on the ground, put an elastic over my front brake lever, and took my waterproof point and shoot camera out of my handlebar bag to take a photo. The reason for the elastic over the front brake lever is that when the front wheel flops over, if I have locked the front brake lever so that the wheel does not turn then the wheel does not roll which could cause the bike to fall over.

Sometimes I get off the bike to take the photo. Especially if I want my bike framed in the photo.

There are a few rare shots that I took while riding, but I rarely do that as it adds some undue risk. Maybe 2 percent of my biking trip shots are while I was riding. I have a wrist strap on my camera so if I had to let go of it for some reason, it will still be hanging from my arm. Since I store my camera in my handlebar bag, it is not that hard to get my hand through the wrist strap and then grab the camera for a shot. The hardest part is getting my hand out of the strap after I put the camera back in the handlebar bag.

I prefer a real camera to a cell phone camera, but that is a personal preference. I quit using a flip phone about a year ago, since then use a smart phone. But I am only slowly starting to use the phone camera and then only when I do not have my camera with me.