LaCresha's Lens Focuses On...page 47...Technology

One thing we all know about technology is that is and always will be changing.  There are continuous developments in computers, programs, cell phones!  Once upon a time I didn't mind getting a new cell phone.  Now, I hate it.  I hate the process, transferring information and learning a new device.  Where I once picked on my Mom when she would get upset over figuring out a new cell phone, now I am right there with her trying to fight learning a new phone. 
I once had a Blackberry Curve, I fought moving from a flip phone Razr to this phone.  Then I learned how much fun it was and loved the tactile to the keypad.  I made that phone last over four years.  The fight finally had to end my relationship with my little purple phone.  I thought I would slowly transition to the world of touch screen by getting another blackberry with a touchscreen and the tactile keypad I love. 
Well...let the games begin.  The phone first did not some of the things the reviews stated it would do.  There were apps which would not load due to being incompatible.  Where I was enjoying the phone, it continued to give me issues and in the past three weeks it has begun to not send e-mails.  During this time I found out Chad wanted to chat on KIK, which my phone would not load.  My last straw hit when I was at a restaurant with friends for a birthday party and even the waiter mocked me due to my phone "who still has a blackberry?"
Point taken.
Thankfully, my friend Miss E was wanting to get rid of her phone as she replaced it with a similar but smaller model.  She is selling me this phone and I am moving up in the world of technology.  As I have a learning curve to it, and it has all these apps, bells, whistles and I wonder how will I ever get any work done playing with it.
As a photographer and a writer I spend a lot of time on computers, phones, iPads, lighting gear and other methods of technical devices.  As knowledgeable as I may be with many of these items, there is lack in my education.  This time of transition from one phone of old technology to a new phone of touch screen and current technology it has made me face a realization.  I cannot continue to hide behind the lack of knowledge which has been barely getting me by.  It is time for me to step up my game if I want to be on top of the industry of photography.  This is something which I have been putting off due to the amount of time I know it will take for me to learn.  However, I am not at a place where I can continue to delay this learning process.
Ahhhh...technology...something which I cannot live without, and can no longer deny myself from advancing my place in the world of technology.  While I may not need to be the most technically advance person out there, I will leave that for those fabulous geek friends of mine!  It is time I remove myself from the sidelines of the world of technology.  No more watching it pass me by, time to dive in and see what I can learn and figure out.