Tom Eppenberger Jr’s blog

I’ve long envied Apple iPhoto users, because they could easily upload photos to Flickr straight from their beloved photo management application. Now, finally, I can do the same thing from my app of choice, Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG).

WLPG is an updated version of Photo Gallery, which shipped with Vista, and while the app is still in beta, it has been rock solid for me in the month or so that I have used it.

In a really cool move on MS’s part, IMO, the app runs on both Vista and XP. Giving a really good, much improved, free photo app to all the XP users, and showing them just one of the things they have been missing out on with Vista.

If you want to get in on the action, you simply have to do two things…

1. Download Windows Live Photo Gallery (beta)
2. Run Windows Update and let it install the updates for Windows Live Photo Gallery. These updates will include Flickr upload integration.

What are you waiting for? Snap to it.

Taken at the Flickr photo frame at Maker Faire.

Hamad Darwish is a professional photographer that was hired by Microsoft to “create genuine images to be a part of the Windows Vista Wallpaper collection.”

Two of his photos made it to the final version of Windows Vista, and now he has posted hi-res versions of all the ones that didn’t make it. There are some great pictures here that would make awesome wallpapers, regardless of the operating system you choose to use.

Besides the Windows Vista photos, he has some other amazing stuff on Flickr that you should check out.