iFotoGuide

Dan and I were fortunate to partner with former Artist-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon, Adam Schallau, to create our latest iFotoGuide app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.  Adam’s intimate knowledge of the many locations and moods the Grand Canyon has to offer, both on the North and South Rim, virtually guarantees that your next photo trip to the park will be the most productive one yet.

iFotoGuide: Grand Canyon is filled with useful content and inspirational images.  The app is designed to help you plan your entire trip, from selecting lodging, renting a car and finding a good place to eat all the way to the really good stuff – where to set up your tripod, when to be there and what equipment you’ll need to create dynamic images.  As with all iFotoGuide apps, it is fully interactive and allows you to access critical information in several ways.  We’ve even stuffed a full park map into the app with full zoom and pan capabilities!

Visit the Apple iTunes App Store to download iFotoGuide: Grand Canyon for your iPhone or iPod Touch today.  At only $4.99, it’s significantly less expensive than your average guidebook!

After several weeks of hard work we’re finally putting the final touches on iFotoGuide: Grand Canyon.  We partnered with talented New Mexico photographer Adam Schallau, a former Artist-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon, to produce this third guide in the iFotoGuide offering.  Adam’s breathtaking images and intimate, personal knowledge of the Grand Canyon guarantee to inspire and inform you on your next visit to “the Big Ditch”.  iFotoGuide: Grand Canyon is stuffed full of information to help you plan every aspect of your next photo trip, regardless of whether you’re headed to the North or South Rim.  Adam shares some of his secret locations as well as all the iconic hot spots on both rims.  Detailed information about where, when and how to photograph each location means you’ll be able to spend more time photographing and less time scouting.  At only $4.99, iFotoGuide: Grand Canyon is a small investment for such a wealth of information.

We expect it to be available in the iTunes App store by mid-July.  Of course, you’ll hear about the launch here first.  Until then, head over to Adam’s website at http://www.adamschallau.com and drool over a few of his amazing Grand Canyon photos!

If you visited the iFotoGuide website a few days ago things are probably looking a little different, and we hope better, this time around.  Welcome to our new website.  What’s new, other than the appearance?

• You can now register to receive the iFotoGuide e-newsletter on the home page.
• You can learn all about the amazing content crammed into every iFotoGuide app.
• Meet our partner photographers and follow a link to their home page.
• We’ve integrated our blog into the site so you don’t have to bookmark two different sites.
• Find all of our contact information and view our press releases.
• Check out links to other photo related stuff that interests us and that you may also find useful.

So, surf around the site and let us know what you think of the re-design.  We like it and we hope you do too!

(Free download of iFotoGuide: Arches to the first person to correctly identify the recording artist from whom I borrowed/butchered this blog title!)

I have a question for you.  You don’t have to answer but we sure would appreciate it if you’d take a minute to share your thoughts.  What kind of content are you interested in seeing on the iFotoGuide blog?

Of course we’ll post press releases, new product announcements and the occasional random thought.  But we don’t want the blog to be all about us.  That’s boring.  We want this to be a space where people can learn from one another, engage eachother and most importantly, have fun.

With that in mind, please tell us what kind of content you’d be interested in seeing here.  Product and book reviews, trip reports, how-to articles, general iPhone app business stuff, user generated content?  We’ll consider any and all ideas.  Throw ‘em out there.  Be heard.  Make this your space.

If you’re shy about leaving your inner thoughts in the comments section feel free to send us an email.  We’re eager to read your comments and we appreciate your time!

It was recently brought to my attention that I neglected to post our original press release right here on the iFotoGuide blog.  Oops.  I won’t make the same mistake again.  I promise.  Please, read on…

Moab, Utah (November 25, 2009) – “iFotoGuide” has released the first and only iPhone app & digital guide to on-location nature photography. It is available now through the Apple iTunes App Store. 

“iFotoGuide: Arches” is the first in a series of digital guides for the iPhone providing nature photographers with a comprehensive resource for planning every aspect of a photography trip.  Use “iFotoguide: Arches” to locate the nearest airport, find lodging and a rental car, and determine what weather to expect during your visit.  Users of “iFotoGuide: Arches” can learn about park entrance fees, permits, flora and fauna, safety considerations and best times to visit for fall colors or wildflower blooms. 

“iFotoGuide: Arches” goes beyond the ordinary photo guidebook by providing three innovative ways for iPhone users to find a dynamic location for photography.  An interactive park map allows users to zoom, pan and select photography locations by name.  Images in the photo gallery serve to inspire and are also interactive – one touch provides detailed instructions for getting to and photographing each location.  “iFotoGuide: Arches” even allows users to search for locations to photograph at sunrise, sunset or in mid-day light. 

Unlike guidebooks and newsletters which may be several years out of date, “iFotoGuide: Arches” is easily updated to ensure accurate and fresh content.  “iFotoGuide: Arches” sells for $4.99 in the Apple App Store.  Updates will include additional locations within Arches National Park and will be available at no cost to “iFotoGuide: Arches” users. 

Created by photographers for photographers “iFotoGuide: Arches” is designed to provide users with all the tools necessary for a successful and productive photo trip.  The developers of “iFotoGuide: Arches” are expanding park coverage, with Canyonlands and Yosemite National Parks available on iTunes in the first quarter of 2010. 

“iFotoGuide” was founded in 2009 by photographers Dan Baumbach and Bret Edge to provide the only digital photo guides available on the Apple iPhone.