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Dec 09 '11	New App: $5.99, v1.0

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IWAGO'S

iOS iPhone

~Animals in mother earth~ This application is the first serious photo-album application from world-active photographer Mitsuaki Iwago.317 pictures of wild animals and cute animals are included.
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~Mitsuaki Iwago's World of Animals~
The photo-album is limited-edition, high quality digital-only version featuring three installments of 27 different kinds of animals carefully selected from Iwago's extensive volume of work. The first installment features popular animals: Lions, Elephants, Zebras, Whales, Seals, Penguins, Pandas, Dogs and Cats in a substantial collection of 317photos that will be followed by installments 2 and 3. Enjoy the unknown world of fascinating animals brimming with personality captured by Mitsuaki Iwago.And please enjoy the bonds of this earth and live animals.
Features of this application
・Cute cats
・Lovely Dogs
・Stately lions
・Pupil-friendly elephant
・Innocent pandas
・Foppish zebras
・Grand whales
・Charming seals
・Playful penguins
etc

・ New 3D Cube Interface
An original interface featuring a cube with animals in it floating in a 3D space has been jointly developed by NEC BIGLOBE, Okamoto Issen Graphic Design Company and CRI Middleware. Search for your favorite animals by flicking, and then move to the viewing screen.

・ All-direction Double-axis Viewer System
A vertical flick on horizontally configured photos with an arrow mark will make a sequence of photos and treasured cuts available.

・ Slideshow Function
Includes a slideshow function second-adjustable at 5 levels. Enables use as a digital photo frame.

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To Mitsuaki Iwago

Our boat on the Alaskan ocean was suddenly surrounded in bubbles, and I suddenly realized it was whales bubble-net feeding. When a whale moved to avoid the boat, I had a film-loaded camera in my right hand, which I aimed at the whale, avoiding the sea spray as it surged upwards. The exposure and focus were just right, and the light was beautiful. This would make for a dramatic transparency. This was the story I heard when I met him. This is what happened in one moment of someone called a genius. He hadn't just gone there - the drama had drawn him there. It was the only conceivable explanation.
Moreover, his attachment freely turns him into the subject of his photos - a monkey when shooting monkeys, a lion when shooting lions. It probably took tens of thousands of years for leaf beetles and stick insects on trees to blend in against their backgrounds, but the strength of his gaze from the other side of the camera takes no time to blend him in with the target of his next shot.

It has been quite some time since I first saw Mitsuaki Iwago's name on a feature on the Serengeti in National Geographic's May 1986 edition. I still remember the excitement as that new volume arrived. I went over the structure of photos in those days anew. The still shots made me excited - they had traces of careful observation, and concealed a premonition anticipating the next bit of drama. The journalistic value of shots only obtainable on location is a given, but these pictures were made out to be more beautiful than that. Joy and misery directly communicated via glossy nature photos gave a reconfirmation that man and animal are part of the same universe.

Okamoto Issen (Art Director)