Photo Freedom Giveaway.

Hi Ali -
My BIGGEST struggle when dealing with my photos is trying to decide from the hundreds that I take, which ones to create pages & stories of. There are sooooo many stories that I want to tell about my family, my community, our life, etc. If I were to scrap them all....wow....now there would be albums everywhere!!! Telling these stories -- the ones in the pictures -- are all that matter. Maybe i'll just leave the photos out (if that's the challenge) and just write a book.
- jill hildebrand
Crystal City, MB
Canada

my biggest struggle is FINDING the photos I know I have taken and want to use...whether in the computer or in a box (pile) of prints. so basically, organization. thanks for all the inspiration Ali!

besides digital photo storage....well, figuring out how to make the most of my sony cyber shot, without having to buy a bigger/better camera, to get great photos.

Biggest struggle...not being able to throw any shots away.

I have recently discovered that I have perfectionism procrastination syndrome:) I have all these great elaborate ideas in my head but I never am organized enough to actually do them. I find time to do projects for others, but not for myself and my family. I need to be organized enough so that I can carve out small chunks of time in my day to work on my photos rather than having this huge looming project that will never get started. Help!

Hi Ali,
My biggest photo problem is trying to figure out the date my old film photos were taken (especially of my first and second babies). I wrote down in my schedule diary at the time what the bub was wearing etc so I'd be able to have some kind of idea, but it wasn't a foolproof system. Now I've gone digital it's heaps better, but I still long to provide an accurate date for those film photos of baby's first year.

Biggest struggle....I have a few....
Since going digital I have a hard time getting actual prints. I keep saying "oh that picture would be great for a page but I need to enlarge it, or, shrink it, or, fix XX in photoshop, or....something else. And then I never get around to doing anything with it.
And organizing my digital pictures? forget it. It's a nightmare. :(

Rebecca
Charlottesville, VA
(RMW)

My biggest photo struggle is deciding what is the most economical and convenient way to process my digital photos. I can't decide if I want to buy a photo printer, get faster Internet service (I have slooowww dial up) so I can upload my photos to someplace like Shutterfly, or continue to save my pics on a CD and bring them to a local one hour photo place. P.S. I got your Life Artist book for Christmas, (got your poster on my wall in my scrapbook room too) and I can't wait to actually put all your great ideas to use! Been really busy and sick since Christmas, but hopefully within the next few days I'll be able to do some scrapbooking! Jen

WOW!! Over 1600 comments. Good luck to you through this process - and, of course, thank you for your giveaway.
My biggest struggle is changing from apoint and shoot to the DSLR that I got on New Years. I wanted one of these - ached for one of these - but did't realize how different it would be. Point in case ... camera shake. So much to learn but ... I can't wait!

Biggest challenge - pulling out the camera for documenting the everyday life. Second biggest challenge - filing both on the computer and hard copy.
Read you every day.

My biggest problem started when I got my digital camera. I have so many pictures on my computer and not enough backed up or printed. I love the idea of digital, but haven't completely adjusted to it. I really liked to take film in, have it developed and hold the pictures in my hand.

I can never seem to capture the emotion of the moment in a picture... Hmmm...

It's hard to narrow it down to just one stuggle!
I think my biggest struggle now is with photography---trying to really capture the story that I want to tell and then remembering WHY I wanted to tell it by the time I print out the photo and sit down to scrap. By the time I actually handle my photos they don't look nearly as wonderful as they did in my head!

biggest photo problem: so many digital pictures that are not printed & printed photos in boxes not albums

Not feeling like I have to use 10 pictures on a layout. Or maybe, trying what size to make the pictures since some are way more cute as a 5X7.

I would have to say lighting. I always think that my pictures are going to look better than they do!

My biggest struggle is just trying to figure out all the features of my camera. Sometimes I miss great, simple shots just because I am fiddling with my camera settings.

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Bigges struggle is getting the ones on the computer organized (and deleted if necessary) and into albums or scrapbooks.