Picturetelling!

P + S: Keep on Organizin'!

WOW!  How'd I let this get away from me again?

Heidi Dillon of Scrapgirls.com has already posted 3 more steps to getting your pictures organized, and I've left you hanging!

Now that you're importing your pictures into your dated folders it's time to start giving your photos tags to identify them by a keyword.  After you do that, they will be easier to retrieve from all the folders they're in, when you want to use them.  Heidi explains the concept and the process so well in Part 3 of her series.

If you're taking the next step and uploading the pictures from your computer into online photo storage, you can use the same tags to identify your pictures in your online system.  I know that when you tag people in Picasa, you can recall all the pictures that have a person in them.  In Heritage Makers, I create folders for broad content--people and dates, and albums for events or projects--more specific tags.

As Heidi says, you'll develop your own system for tagging pictures in a significant way.  It may take refinement as you get the hang of it.  I'm learning this from Heidi right along with you!  One thing I'm sold on--meaningful organization allows me to make sense of the mish-mash of photo collections I have stored on my computer and online, and that makes it easier to get the pictures I want, and related pictures that I've forgotten about, for the projects I make, such as storybooks, cards, and canvases.

I hope you're discovering that, too.

P + S is best! ~Donna

P + S: Personifying Flowers--A Crocus Choir

THE SETUP

A few posts ago I introduced you to the lone crocus that had already emerged in my yard.  It's not alone any more!  When I went out to get a closer look at my early spring blooms, I couldn't help seeing them as people!  Crocuses are just so perky, they looked active.

THE PICTURES

If you were just flipping through a stack of my photos and you came upon these, would they spark your imagination?  Would you instinctively know how they sparked mine?  I don't think you could read my mind. 

You don't need my story, especially if these pictures are a visual metaphor for you.  But if these are "just a pretty/dull sequence" of floral photos to you, maybe I can tweak the way you see them with a few lines of text.  Ready to see if you see what I see?

THE STORIES

TOP: I see these as A trio of vocalists with their backup singers.  The Supremes backed by a Gospel choir.  The Andrews Sisters accompanied by USO singers.  The "3 Tenors" with an operatic choir.  Carol, Marsha, and Jan Brady entertaining the geriatric crowd, backed by Alice, Mike Brady, and the boys.  Mama Mia's 3 aging divas performing while the village folk all chime in.  Can you see it?  They're swaying; harmonizing at a climactic part of the song...

RIGHT: The Featured Trio.  Crooners.  Soulfully singing their hearts out.  Blending their voices.  Howling at the moon.

BOTTOM: The chorus.  Rock concert audience.  Partiers: "Happy Birthday to You...".  Revelers: "To auld acquaintance be forgot.."  The Osmonds.  Crowding around, up on tiptoe, trying to see, singing out to be heard, mouths wide open, uvulas quavering, holding that last note...

 

Isn't it fun personifying flowers?  Here's one more:

BUDDING DAFFODILS ON PARADE

"They're on the way..."

"WHY WOULD I DO THIS?"

It's just another way to make your scrapbooks, digital storybooks, garden journals, vacation photojournals, greeting cards, calendars, coasters, etc. FUN.  Gardeners take pride in their gardens; homeowners take pride in their property; nature photographers delight in the details of their subjects.  Sometimes the photos evoke a reaction that has us personifying nature--for instance, describing plants like people.  SO USE THAT! 

Email me to get help making one of those projects.  I will sign you up for a free Heritage Makers account if you email me. 

When you document your life with P + S, there are no rules--IMAGINATION RULES!

P + S IS BEST!  ~Donna