Greetings from the beautiful hills of Pennsylvania.  I am working on my digital photography skills for personal and educational reasons.  I find the search for photos that I like and can use freely on my sites, in my writings and in my classroom lesson planning to be tedious.  I am building a library of images that I can access and use that are all mine.  I created a lesson plan on social stratification for the DEN and used almost all my own images in the powerpoint. The lesson has more meaning for me and my students.  As a classroom teacher students love seeing themselves. Imagine their glee when they show up in a lesson!  Also images that we need like a timer or a clock has more meaning when the students recognize the objects.  Just some random thoughts on the importance of digital art.