Lightroom Adventure Gallery 1 Lightroom Adventure Gallery 2 Team Photographers at Work Mikkel Aaland: Romantic Tasmania Mikkel_Aaland: Site Inspection Trip Melissa Gaul: Hobart Area Melissa Gaul: Tombstones Marcus Bell Jeff Pflueger Catherine Hall Robert Edwards Charlie Cramer Winston Hendrickson Bruce Dale

As many of you know, one of the key sponsors of the Adobe Adventure to Tasmania is Digital Railroad, the online photo marketing system for professional photographers and stock photo agencies. Digital Railroad is where many of our photographers have chosen to present and market their work. This week our very own Angela Drury is featured in Digital Railroad's marketplace Member Showcase. They are featuring her fantastic images from Tasmania, and also many of the shots Angela took on the Adobe Adventure to Iceland two summers ago. We are told that Angela has already sold some of her work. Good job Angela, and thank you Digital Railroad! Next week Digital Railroad will feature Jeff Pflueger's photos of Tasmania.

I've worked through some portraits I took on location and made a Lightroom gallery. I really smiled a lot as I went through these photos , and thought about what a wonderful bunch of creative, collaborative people Mikkel put together....

I've been playing with the Lightroom 2 public beta (free here) and finding some things I really like. Take the new Clarity, for example. Clarity controls are found under the Basic pane in the right panel of the Develop module. Traditionally, Lightroom's Clarity has been used for local contrast enhancement and gives dull images a "punch". With Lightroom 2, Clarity can have a reserve effect, a negative Clarity if you will. Negative values, (up to -100) when applied to a photo of, say, a face can give skin a smooth silky look (You can use reverse Clarity with the new localized adjustment tool as well). I was curious how negative Clarity might work on some of my Tasmanian landscapes and I was pleasantly surprised. Tasmania already has a romantic feel to it, but this simple adjustment really brought out the romantic quality even more, as you can see by looking at my Romantic Tasmania web gallery. I've also prepared a simple video that walks you through what I did using the public beta on one of the images. I'll post that shortly.

As a team member in Tasmania, trying to follow the activities of 24 photographers shooting over ten days could make one downright mad. One was likely to just get the crazy stories in bits and pieces - or hope to see an image or two. But of all of the photographers, what Bruce Dale was up to each day was the most mysterious to me. Bruce, long time national Geographic staff photographer (30 plus years I understand!), would dissolve each day into the Tasmanian landscape, to return at night with an impressive breadth of subjects. Not only did Bruce have stunning landscape images, but also intimate and rich visual stories of the people of Tasmania: A pirate wedding Bruce was invited to for example, or the slaughter of a pig - subjects only obtainable to photographers with the master key to all of the proverbial doors a photojournalist might want to enter! Bruce has put together a Lightroom gallery showing a bit of what he was up to in Tasmania, and it is stunning to say the least. The gallery shows off a bit of the photographic and journalistic skills a rich and full career at National Geographic can cultivate. You need to check it out! After seeing the gallery, I even more sorely regret not trying to tag along with Bruce like young grasshopper on one of his deep Tasmania day missions to learn what I could!

Tasmania is blessed with some of the cleanest air in the world, manic weather, and rugged topography - all nice ingredients for photographing wonderful sunrises and sunsets. And everyone loves a beautiful sunrise and sunset!

Is it possible to be homesick for a place that isn't home? As I sat on a plane returning to San Francisco from the island of Tasmania, I realized that I was experiencing the Frank Sinatra song in reverse. I'd left my heart in this land of magical forests, exotic wildlife and - more importantly - extraordinary people. In all my travels, I have never felt so safe, welcome, comforted and embraced. The Tasmanian people accepted me without....