uSnap.us takes flight!

uSnap.us is excited and honoured to be featured in KiaOra this April. With a readership of 400,000, KiaOra is Air New Zealand’s monthly in-flight magazine which ”celebrates the very best of New Zealand every month”.

You may snap the bride

“See your wedding through their eyes,” goes the tagline for new crowd-sourcing photography outfit uSnap.us. In the case of some ceremonies, that might be an invitation to disaster, but the chance to collect live images as their happy day unfolds will appeal to many.

The official photographer can’t be everywhere, after all, and there are always friends and family who couldn’t make the wedding and would like to know what they’re missing.

The fledgling company - which won the inaugural Wellington Start-up challenge last year and was a finalist in the Webstock 2012 start-up competition - is based on an app that wedding guests download to their phones to instantly share their photos with the group and which aggregates all shots to a single site. If so inclined, the newlyweds can even stream images live during the reception.

Dangerous, perhaps, but fun.

- Matt Philip © 2012 ACP Magazines

Thanks Air New Zealand. Or, as us Kiwis say, Kia Ora!