Archive for October 17th, 2007

I discovered today that our model snail died sometime earlier this week. I am sad because I was hoping it would join me on some of my school and library visits for Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator. Perhaps, I’ll find a new one in the spring.

Though this photograph does capture the down feeling of losing my snail, I had a different reason for taking it. I am going to the Writing and Illustrating for Kids conference this weekend and I’ll be doing some blogging on-site. Robert Kittinger will be leading some sessions on creating a web presence and at the end of the day, we’re going to have a blogging session.

I’ve learned through painful experience that I should do a trial run whenever I am changing equipment or software. In this case, I’ll be using my laptop (not my desktop) and I’ll be using Photoshop Elements (not the full version of Photoshop). I’ll be using a different card reader to transfer photographs from my camera’s media card to the laptop.

So, I collected all the different equipment and re-set my camera to take raw images and jpgs (this saves some time in transferring images and in readying them for the web). I took this photograph of my dog Tanner. He had just let out a big sigh (he’s the most laid back member of our family).

So far, everything has worked. I just need to figure out how I’ll connect my laptop to the internet in the high school cafeteria where the blogging session will be held.

All previous posts have now been restored. I’m not sure whether I’ll be able restore people’s comments. I’ll check into that. It wasn’t an easy process to re-do the posts, but as with any technology I try to use, my screw-ups teach me as much (or more) than my successes.