Yesterday I stumbled upon this post at Petapixel.com where they discussed the arrival of yet another player in the ultra saturated game of online photo sharing.
But these guys are different. First of all they’ve named their app after a month. August. How cool is that, huh? (Yeah, I know; not very). Then, you’ll only have access to the app once you’ve demonstrated you’re the real deal when it comes to the quality of your portfolio. I guess they’re trying really hard to keep your crappy photos elsewhere (read Instagram, Flickr and the likes).
Right, like this is the type of photo I’d be posting to August on a regular basis
So say they don’t let you in as a photographer. Don’t fret. You might still be considered worthy enough to join their artists’ community as a consumer. It’s not quite clear to me what a consumer’s supposed to do in August other than curate and perhaps help expose great work you find there through your different social media channels. I’ve submitted my email to get in as a consumer/curator and once they let me in (or not) I’ll make sure I let you know what it’s like.
So will you try to join this rather snobbish photo sharing site? Is your photography that great? If you’d like to give it a try, here‘s where you can apply and hope the powers that be at August deem you worth letting in their precious little community. For the rest of you, fine photographers, there’ll always be SmugMug. Oh and remember you can follow Dad’s Pixels and get semi-daily updates about family, photography and the web.
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