Photo Freedom Giveaway.

My biggest struggle lately has just been getting the pictures printed. Do you think that could be because when I sit down to scrapbook, I already have 100's of pictures to choose from?????? Thanks for the chance to win the book. How nice of you. NancyB

My biggest photo struggle is lighting. I look at a lot of pictures that others have taken and I wish mine looked just as wonderful. Lighting seems to make all the difference. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great new book!!

My biggest photo struggle is dealing with all the older albums I have, some from my childhood and some from the years before I started scrapbooking. I am so tied up in the moment and lovin' working with my current photos that I forget about all these treasures that are tucked away in those terrible albums at the back of the closet!

My biggest photo struggle....finding a way to organize the pictures. I love to take pictures, and then from there they just don't seem to go anywhere so that i can enjoy them. I have zillions of pictures that i need to print and get into albums. This is the year, to take, to print and to enjoy them!
Dawn T

biggest struggle - too many! why do i have to keep 25 photos of my son playing with his blocks or eating in his high chair, etc. i need to learn to delete more immediately and only keep the good ones.
another thing - i'm getting better about printing off my pictures. All my photos up through 2007 have been printed! Almost all of them up to mid-2006 are in albums. they aren't scrapbooked, but they are in ablums. i scrapbook as i can - the stories, but i've learned from stacy and cathy (and others) that i do NOT have to scrapbook every single photo and event. i focus on the stories now.

I can't bring myself to delete any of them - even the blurry ones. I fear I'm deleting a part of my children's story - that sweet elbow dimple, that blur of the chase, that lovely curl handing down - oh my! So I literally have thousands of pictures - can I ever scrap all that??

definitely organizing them on the computer and then for printing purposes...I am up to my eyeballs in photos and not a clue!

My biggest photo challenge? Managing the older, disorganized photos of my children for which I have no negatives. That leads to the older family photos I have from my childhood that are currently stored in large cardboard boxes - overwhelming!
Being aware enough today to take photos that most appropriately represent the life I live!

Hi Ali -- WOW, over 1300 comments so far -- amazing the reach of your blog. Awesome.
My biggest photo challenge -- is deleting ones that can be let go of and fixing them as they are loaded onto the computer.
And..most importanly perhaps -- photo backup. This is always a to-do.

My biggest photo struggle right now is my camera. My inside shots are not the quality I would like them to be. Therefore, most of my layouts are made with outside pics. My next photo struggle would be getting my pics to layouts...I have them backed up so no worries about losing them! I absolutely love to take pictures and would love some ideas on how to get them to albums. HELP! I would love to see how Stacy inspires me...and I am definitely ready to commit my time towards the prospect of "photo freedom!" Yeah!

I don't have a SLR yet, so my biggest struggle is getting good photos and good light with my point and shoot. Thanks!
Melissa

Hi Ali,
my biggest foto strggles are:
1. my tiny camera that just broke
2. To figure out how to soften a flash
3. To pic the right fotos for scrapping
and
4. Not to have a real good camera
Thanks.
Have a great day!

My struggle is taking too many pictures; not getting them printed in a timely manner, printing too many, wasting them .... I love pictures and I hate to waste. I want to be simple and use them in many ways as possible.

Biggest photo struggle....
knowing what JOY is in my camera, remembering the moments with smiles and being fearful of downloading/printing because I KNOW I don't have an organizational system or even a plan of what to do with all of the treasures! !
Thank you
Lynda Rutherford at the beach

My biggest problem is definately taking too many pictures. Many of them will probably never see photo paper but still I keep them because even the "bad" ones still have lots of meaning to me.

I find it hard to delete photos, yeah yeah I delete those that are too blurry, or where I have cut off heads, or where I have left the lens cap on (LOL) but I find it hard to decide which two or three to keep of the 15-20 photos I took of the same pose!!!

I feel lucky! I can feel it in my bones Ali!!!

Well the fact that my daughter spilt cherry juice on my camera(while making a sundae on the counter..LOL, camera should not have been there!)and my shutter release sticks sure doesn't help, but mostly lighting. That and trying to capture "life" photos, not just events... I love how you capture the simple, little things that are so common in daily life. :)
I really need to be better about having my camera with me always... but it seems so bulky.
Liz T

Can't decide between lighting...I want that soft natural light look that is so hard to find! OR...I would love to be able to get my kids to smile at the camera instead of making a cheesey face...just once in a while!

PS Using my DigiRebel off the manual mode. :SIGH: And organizing the photos from a zillion years ago.