As bloggers, parents, or just average air breathing humans, most of us want to know how to take amazing pictures and record our lives in a beautiful way. Many of us even have nice DSLR cameras and decent equiptment that should help us do this… but do we actually know what to do with this expensive stuff once we have it? The short answer is no. The long answer is also no…just in case you were wondering. But where do we begin? There are hundreds of books on the market, and dozens of costly classes we can sign up for, and if one were so inclined there are quite literally hours upon hours we could dedicate to ‘figuring’ out how to apply those lessons ‘in real life’. Who actually has the time for this? Not I said the baby bump rockin mama, who is already mentally planning out the most glorious newborn photos to be found. Definitely not I said the mama to a preschooler who won’t sit still for half a second to even let me consider fabulous holiday photographs to send to family and friends (for those of you still waiting for my first baby’s birth announcements to arrive, you can pretty much assume it’s not happening…lack of free time and proper restraints for my child and all that).

So, I thought I might help us all out by rounding up some of the fab freebies available on the interwebs that teach us the basics in a simple and easy to understand manner.

Once we tackle some of these begginer tutorials, I will round up some more advanced (but still beginner) projects for us to try! Can I get a yahoo? yahoo…