Picasa Photo Albums

Do any of y'all use Picasa - Google's photo and image management application?

I do try to concentrate as much as I can in my Google Account: email, YouTube, all my notes and half-written books are Google Docs, etc.

But a couple of years ago I downloaded Picasa (the desktop application) and it automatically went about synch-ing with the millions of photos I had on my hard drive. I couldn't control it at all and my computer was getting old so Picasa kept crashing during this synch process. Needless to say I never got started using it.

However I do have many of my photos uploaded to Picasa over the web. I think of it as a free online, in case of a flood or computer crash, storage. Of course I hit the memory limit long ago.

But yesterday I paid $5.00 - essentially nothing - to upgrade my online storage to 20 giga bytes per year. Right now I'm uploading 2011's photos to Picasa and I'm considering that since I have a new PC I may try out the desktop Picasa application again.

Do any of y'all use Picasa for managing and editing photos? I myself can't stand Shutterfly and the like. It seems to me to be so much more convenient to have my photos - along with everything else! - centralized in my Google account.

Amateur Photography

I pulled off the road last night and braved getting run over by harried rush-hour NYC wage slaves to take those pics last evening.

I'm no expert, meteorological or photographical, but I have an undeveloped theory that the best sunsets always occur on unseasonably warm days.

Click those pics and marvel at my skills the wonders of point-and-click digital photography.

Now I have to get me one of those so-called DSLR cameras...

Almost Looks Fake

Good music too - even if borrowed from that bad movie.