23 Things: Thing 8

In the same post in which you placed your creation, briefly describe your experience completing Thing 8. Which of these tools intrigues you and why? Was it easy, frustrating, time-consuming, fun? Share some of your ideas for using the images you can create.

I looked at both Big Huge Labs and imagegenerator.org and thought the former was much easier to use for someone going to the site for the first time. I used the mosaic feature to put together all of the photos of my daughter learning, creating, and pretending. It was very interesting to me to look at the experiences that we had captured (probably because we thought something "cute" was happening) and I wonder if we would have looked at other experiences through a different lens (no pun intended) if we could have caught even more learning taking place. I suppose that one of the greatest things about looking through the amazing tools people have created is that I now think about the photos I want to look for instead of waiting for something "cute" or "beautiful" to cross my path. For example, in the mosaic I created, photos of simple things like figuring out how to do a puzzle or stack blocks would both fit perfectly into the project. I think that I will continue to look for those adorable moments but now keep my camera close by and look around more critically for the "small" things that are actually very powerful when captured and then set to a purpose.

Was the process fun? Yes. Frustrating? Yes, for someone like me who wants to make the photos fit just so. Time consuming? Yes, but in the way that any new project can be and depending upon how involved one tends to be.