Copying photos onto another mac

Can anyone tell me the easy way of copying photographs from one mac to another? I don't want the whole library just certain albums containing about 500 photographs. I can network the macs wirelessly or link them with a firewire. I'm thinking that I will have to copy the albums to desktop folders then copy them across and then import them and then put them into albums. As you can see I'm not hugely mac literate even though I've had one for a fair while! When in doubt ask someone who knows.
Thanks
Tim

Tim
Link the two macs together and then use iPhoto Library Manager to move the albums from one library to the other.
Regards
TD

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