カテゴリー: 写真

写真やカメラに関する話題です。

PhotoZou – a new photo sharing SNS from Japan

I have been using PhotoZou for a while now. PhotoZou is a photo sharing web service by Unoh, a Tokyo-based web venture. Recently, they released the English version (now open beta) of this service.

PhotoZou - top page

At the bottom level, it is a photo sharing web service, like Flickr et al. You can upload the photos and share. You can tag your photos, and you can use it in your blog posts. You can specify the Creative Commons level, and there is a built-in Google Maps mush up, where you can map where you took the photos. However, its direction is slightly different. Where most photo sharing services are directed towards “sharing your photos with everyone on the Internet”, PhotoZou has taken more of SNS approach of “sharing your photos with your selected people on the Internet”.

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Testing フォト蔵

大阪城
大阪城 posted from フォト蔵

フォト蔵のテストです。もう15年くらい前かな。大阪城の白壁はものすごくどす黒かった。白壁じゃなくて灰壁でした。この日のように天気がよいと、白と黒と金がきれいになってよかったなぁと思います。

追記:写真サイズ中も試してみる。ちなみにさっきのは大。

大阪城
大阪城 posted from フォト蔵

World Press Photos of the Year 2006

I read in the newspaper (I think it was Asahi Shimbun) a few days ago that the World Press Photos of the Year for 2006 was annouced. Great pictures. I particulary like the 2nd and the 3rd prize photos for nature ones at the bottom left. I wonder where about in Svalbard which that polar bear photo was taken, because, good or bad, we didn`t see them when I went there. Oh and the 1st prize Sports Action photo… I cannot describe it in writings. Just see it. We probably must though, shouldn`t forget that there are sadness and destructions behind many of these pictures.