Project: photos

These days, it would seem that no matter where I turn to do things, I would keep finding things that I need to learn.
It is good, because as you all know, my motto: Learn something new everyday.
It is also bad, because things get done only after a longer time as I had to stop and learn, find out about my mistakes, fix those mistakes, and so on and so on.

Just take our title today, photos.

Image via MacCreate

I have been using iPhoto '08 for Mac. It old. Some may say it's kind of obsolete, but it's one that I have. And so far, it's pretty fabulous. Especially after adding on the Facebook exporter, the Picasa uploader... made my life so much easier.

And yet, after the so many donkey years (ehmm.. going 3 years) of using the iPhoto, I just found out about the title and keyword function like 2 days ago.
Found out about the album function (from peeping over the shoulder at the Husband's iPhoto) like 2 weeks ago.
Yeah, you can tell me about that feeling of wanting to bang your head on the wall and cursing my own stupidity. Doh.

And I am just talking about the organizing part. There is also about taking those photos themselves.
As you know, I just got my first ever DSLR in January.
Oh my, and it's not simple, cheap, (relatively) easy, beginner DSLR either. Oh no no no.
Not that I am not thankful, of course. It wasn't money out of my own pocket, after all.
But still.... 2 months later, I have yet to learn what most buttons on the camera would do, seriously!

THE camera

With this camera, of course the issue does not end at taking good pictures. There is also the issue of taking care of the camera itself.
Talk about feeling totally inadequate at times, I actually remember that when my (then) boyfriend's roommate in Uni bought his camera, he invested as well on a special dry cabinet to store the camera and whatever paraphernalia he already and was going to buy. Talk about serious investment.
Down here? Nary a blower.
So... learning again.

But the again, no complaints about lacking of things to learn, now huh? Or brain melting, atrophying and growing senile with age yet. Ha!
In the meantime, at least there are also things to celebrate, like learning how to properly attributing images (I followed decor8 way of doing it), the discovery of the huge blogging community out there catering to the wildly different interest, the inspiring stories of oh so many blogger with humble beginning finally making it big...
Not that I am really interested in really making it big in the blogging world.

If I could just make ends meed through doing things that I really enjoy.... it will be dreamy enough.
I have been given a chance to learn, both through parenting and through having some time not working thanks to the Husband's work.
And so we use the chance given. Learn. Learn Learn.

How about you? Any similar problem of too many things to learn? Or are you at the other end of not finding things to learn?