How to remotely access your iPhone from laptop?

I'm doing an experiment where I need to grow mould on a McDonalds hamburger and visually record the progress. Stupidly, the school gave us the assignment during the holidays and I'm out of town for all of it. Need to find a way to access my phone to take photos from abroad.

Use a webcam. Or there's a a website called UStream that lets u broadcast via web. You could set up your phone with the app to use a video stream. Then remotely take the photos from the site. You can use the webcam the same way, plus they aren't that expensive (example below).