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[SJ-David]

As I write this, snow is coming down in many regions of Honshu at last and so it looks like the season will soon be underway properly in many areas of Japan. (No sniggering Hokkaido people!)

So I thought this was a good time to make a post on the subject of photos, especially after a recent discussion in another topic.

Uploading photos to SnowJapan

With our new Forums comes a new and very easy way to upload photos.
See that blue bar top right? You'll see a link called 'Photos'.
http://www.snowjapan...ex.php/gallery/
Click on that to go to the new Forums Photo section.
Once there on the right hand side you will see a blue button called 'Upload'.
Clicking on that you will have a choice of 'New Album' or 'Select Album'.
Choose one of those and follow the instructions and it should be a very quick and easy process to upload multiple photos at the same time.
You can create your own Galleries (only your photos) or upload to the general galleries (including the special 'Emergency Telephone' or 'Cheese at Resorts' galleries) if you wish.
You can also very easily link/embed them into the Forums once they are there.
Hopefully you will find it very easy. I'll post a Help topic on the subject tomorrow.
If you try and encounter any problems you can contact us and we will be happy to help at any time.

The photo section on our main site remains in place and you are welcome to upload photos there too:
http://www.snowjapan...oto_gallery.php
(Those photos get linked in to the resorts around Japan).

Please we would like to ask that no advertisements, promotions or websites are put on the photos.
If you wish to put your full name or Forums member name on there in a corner, we do not have a problem with that -- but please keep it about the size of the snowjapan stamp on the photos.
Thank you very much.

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Onegai shimasu! (Request!)

I just wanted to take the opportunity to ask members of the community to make use of our Photos section(s) and upload photos that you wish to share with this community to one of the above systems.
Now, I realise that some people have blogs, upload their pics to social media sites and/or their own websites etc, and might just want to quickly embed their photos here.
I don't think it's often that we ask for things, but it would make us very happy if people used these systems and uploaded photos to SnowJapan --- it is one way that you can help support us and what we do. Indeed, it kind of also helps support the ski resorts too as our site gets a very large number of eyeballs and drives a lot of traffic to Japanese ski resorts. The more photos & stoke the better, and they certainly don't need to be pro-photographer quality.

As you no doubt know we have made some pretty major updates to SnowJapan for this season. We have some further major plans for next season that we have already started working on. We'll do what we can to keep improving what we have here, keep the Giveaways coming and spreading the word about Japan winter sports.

Anyway, here's to a fantastic season. Let it snow!

Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it.