Photo Freedom Giveaway.

Honestly, my biggest photo challenge is not having my camera on me at the RIGHT times... seems I always have it for "specific planned events", but not readily available when those impromptu but awesome shot moments happen.
:) hope you are well Ali!

Hmmm... I think organization is my biggest problem - with photos and every other area of my life!

Remembering the stories and details from the photos ... and labeling either some or most of the photos with the names of people.

My biggest photo trouble is getting the right lighting. I'm photo obsessed and hope to be a photog when I grow up (aka when my kids have left the nest). But I still am a bit self conscious when it comes to good lighting.
Oh I hope I win!!!

Ooh! I saw that book yesterday and LOVED it!

OOOH so many....
SO many photos on the computer in such a random system. I'm sure I've lost some and then surprise I find something from forever ago! Printing what I download. Now it would take forever to actually print them and have prints to scrap! That's the beginning...I need this book.

My biggest challenge ... getting in more photos! I'm a bit too much of a control freak ... I need to relinquish some of the photographic duties to my hubby! :)

my struggle.....do I leave photos on the hard drive or copy them to 's or to a thumb drive, or maybe a 2nd hard drive? How do I make sure I don;t loose them? (even though all the best are printed!)

Getting my canon rebel out of auto or P mode. I need to take a class and understand the numbers and what to do....so I can truly shoot.

I need a camera with faster speed. As far as photos go........I struggle thinking how many I take and have to make sure to organize all of them and back them up frequently. I try not to let this go to the way side too much. Otherwise it gets overwelming to tackle. My advice to everyone is just KEEP up with the photos you do take. I back up all my photos to disk but this still makes me feel uneasy. I think it's all that talk that disk only last so long. It's so overwhelming! To think of having to keep up with all those photos and if one mistake.....one could loose all those precious memories.

my biggest photo struggle is knowing it's ok to delete the bad shots from the computer. i don't really need 50 shots of the same event if they aren't all good, but i have a hard time erasing things!

My biggest photo struggle has got to be organization!!!
Denise C.

For sure -my biggest problem is my camera. I don't know all that well how to use it and I don't think it's a very great one. But it's what I got. So take pictures like a "mad-lady." Which in itself causes me stress.....I have so much trouble narrowing down the shots. Thanks for being such a fun inspiration Ali. ~Rachelle

I struggle mostly with storing and 'easily retrieving' my photos - both online and prints. I'm looking forward to this book. Thanks for the FUN giveaway!!

I have 2 struggles.
I'm trying really hard to photograph and journal the little things, the incidental happenings in our house and in our lives. The problem is that I often miss capturing the moment by the time I get the camera out of the bag. I don't want to put the children off by hovering around with a camera around my neck but I need to find a way to access it quicker and still take great shots.
My other struggle is finding the time to sort throught them all, sort them into categories, make journalling notes etc... I keep taking more and more photos and the pile keeps growing. At the moment I have over 400 photos to download and that's just from the past 2 weeks!

my biggest photo struggle is finding time to figure out my "amazing" camera.
i got the camera a couple of years ago and every time someone that knows anything about cameras sees it says "don't get rid of that it is an amaazing camera"
Unfortunately I don't know how to properly use it. I have made a vow to myself to figure it out. . . now, where does all of my time go?

My biggest struggle is finding time to organize and/or edit all of the pictures I take. And now, trying to take a photo a day for 2008, I have even more... ack!

My biggest struggle is that I love photos taken in natural light without the flash, but even with IStabalazation, when the flash is off my pictures go blurry. So I use flash and it negates all the artistic nature in the photo because it is now with a harsher light. How do you keep them from getting blurry?

Looks like an excellent book!
My biggest struggle is trying to create the "warm", amber-ish sort of look on many of my photos. I've learned to play around some with the adjustments on iPhoto (can't afford Photoshop just yet!), and have discovered a few new tricks, but still can't seem to achieve the beautiful colors I see in so many professional photographs. Would love any good advice! :)

One biggest struggle? Hmmm. I would say world peace. I mean it would be capturing photos that tell a story, that show something. That or how to take a picture of a teenage girl that she will like. :)

Working out the best way to file. I have photos that are sitting in shoeboxes, unfiled, cause I havent found a system I am happy with.

Organizing and prioritizing "blow-me-away photos" and "blow-me-away-memories with not-so-great photos".

Stacy is so very inspiring, isn't she. :)
My biggest photo challenge, like some others, I see, is getting things printed. Also the "which size" issue. Which has resulted in me switching (at least for the moment) almost entirely to digital. All very well, but I'd still like a system for prints, not to mention I need to print my layouts now. Eek!

My biggest photo struggle is that my Mojo is gone! I realized some time ago that the Chronological approach was not working for me.....I didn't always want to scrap that next event so it just wasn't fun anymore. I really think that Stacy's approach will be just the thing to bring back my scrapbooking Mojo!

i struggle w/ my camera settings. need to take a class & learn how to use everything properly! mj