One of my favorite subjects turns 130 years old.

The Yosemite Chapel, in Yosemite National Park, California, is one of my favorite photographic subjects probably because of my "blind luck" in capturing this image in 2005. I was at the park in February with my brother and we woke to a snowstorm that had blanketed Yosemite Valley with snow. We rushed out to capture some images before humans or nature would destroy the snow! We stood along side the road and braved the falling snow (very wet snow) and the snow plows that were out clearing the roads. Here some interesting info on the storied past of this structure: yosemiteblog.com/2009/06/04/yosemite-chapel-celebrating-130-years/ I hope it is around for another 130 years!

You can see the above image and other shots in my landscape gallery at blackburnimages.com/gallerymaster.aspx?g=landscapes

World Wide Photo Walk

I’m going to participate in the World Wide Photo Walk on July 18^th in downtown Nashville. Scott Kelby and NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) are sponsoring this event and it is a series of “walks” in cities around the world that occur (approximately) at the same time. Each “walk” is led by a local photographer and limited to 50 participants. There doesn’t appear to be any set destinations or objectives of each walk other than exploring the area and taking some good photos. Photographers gather at the end of the walk for some socializing and sharing of photos. Check out www.worldwidephotowalk.com if you’re interested in more info.

CMA Music Festival (Fan Fair) parade

Photographed the Music City Drum Corps performance in the CMA Music Festival kick-off parade yesterday (June 10). WOW... I didn't realize this was such a big deal. I knew about the Festival, but didn't think the parade would be that well attended. Tons of photographers there as well. If you ever want opportunity to photograph some celebs and people/fans this is something to keep in mind. I'm hoping that some of the photos will be used in article for Halftime magazine about the Drum Corps.

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Use Lightroom 2? Get this book...

I picked up a copy of Scott Kelby’s latest edition of Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom 2Book for Digital Photographers and after just a week have probably saved enough time in Lightroom to pay for the book! I really like Scott’s approach – state a specific issue/scenario and address it in a very concise manner. I picked up several very good hints/tricks from this book!

If you’re not using Lightroom to manage your image files and your basic editing you should be! I just got done cataloging and editing 1500 images from a wedding shoot and only went into Photoshop proper on one image!!!

Previous posts.

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Welcome!

Since my other blog (paulblackburn.blogspot.com) really started out as a family blog and I ended up hijacking it for photography... I thought I'd create a separate blog for my photography "stuff" and try to keep the name consistent with my photography (Blackburn Images).

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