SAFUN » Spain http://www.safun.com Talk from a San Antonian Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:48:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My Photo of Magic Fountain is on Schmap! http://www.safun.com/travel/my-photo-of-magic-fountain-is-on-schmap/ http://www.safun.com/travel/my-photo-of-magic-fountain-is-on-schmap/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 04:53:31 +0000 Angela http://www.safun.com/?p=522 I use Flickr to store all my photos – all 7702 of them! Wow, I can’t believe I have that many photos. And no, they are not all photos of me hanging around with friends. They are mostly of my travel adventures and social events. I love Flickr because it’s so easy to share photos, add tags, organize them and most importantly they have API’s where developers can build applications that work with Flickr. I have used Blurb and Trippermap, both apps I wouldn’t have known about until Flickr. I really love their service.
Since I am able to tag my photos, they can be searched on. I received an email from Schmap saying that my photo of the Magic Fountain (Font de Montjuic) in Barcelona  has been short-listed for inclusion in the seventh edition of the Schmap Barcelona Guide, to be published early June 2009.

What is Schmap I wondered? I understood that they were a travel guide but I received a better definition by looking them up on Wikipedia:

Schmap is the publisher of free digital travel guides for destinations throughout Europe and the USA, as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.[1] The company’s travel guides are available for download at www.schmap.com, along with a small computer program that interacts with a Web browser to display the guides called the Schmap Player.[2]

There are currently[when?] 199 city or island guides available for download from Schmap, purportedly more than the number offered by traditional paper guidebook publishers Frommers, Lonely Planet, and Fodors as individual city or island guides.[3]

The Schmap Guides are entirely free to consumers, with Schmap relying on sales from its travel store, advertising, and licensing revenue from its commercial customers for financial support

Cool, I thought. I would love to have my photo used for their travel guide. I signed the agreement to allow my photo to be published in their travel guide. Two weeks later, I was notified that my photo was chosen.

Please note: I am not a professional photographer and don’t aspire to be. I do love to travel though and I love to capture images that sometimes I know I may only see once in my life.

When I was in college, I studied in Seville, Spain in the Spring of 2003. I vowed to myself that once I graduate from college, I would return. I graduated in 2005 and the week after I walked the stage, I headed back to Spain with my mom and sister for a 2 week vacation. Barcelona was our first stop and actually the Magic Fountain was the first monument we saw. I remember that day so clearly. We were all 3 jet-lagged but hungry. We went to a little tapas restaurant near the Magic Fountain. The clouds were coming in as if it was going to rain. We walked down to the Magic Fountain right at dusk and just in time to see the lights turn on in the fountain. It was beautiful! I only had my little Canon PowerShot S410 but it captured the fountain perfectly.

I am glad my photo is being shared on Schmap. I hope many others will have the opportunity to visit Magic Fountain and enjoy this beautiful sight.

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