Lightroom Adventure Digital Railroad Archive
Featuring images by Angela Drury, Mikkel Aaland and Peter Krough

Acclaimed photographer and bestselling author Mikkel Aaland's bold passion for testing new digital photography software in creative ways is what he’s best known for. As many folks know, Aaland journeyed to Iceland a few years back where he and a tireless crew of pro shooters tested the beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 during the long midsummer days suffused in the most dramatic light on the planet.

From April 2 to 14, trip organizer Aaland and a crew of pro shooters-- including DRR Members Peter Krough and Jeff Pflueger, Angela Drury aim to test Adobe's digital imaging workflow solution under a wide variety of conditions in unfamiliar territory. Plans call for shooting by day and using Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta to import, select, develop, and showcase their large volume of digital images each night.

"Lightroom Adventure Tasmania is a celebration of learning through collaboration," said Aaland. "I've worked with a network of amazing photographers through the years, and The adventure is also a true collaboration between artists and Adobe. They're supporting our in-the-field testing of Lightroom, and will use our feedback will help make Lightroom an even better tool for photographers."

As images are captured and processed in the field, each photographer will upload images to a Digital Railroad archive for distribution to press, partners and buyers. The Digital Railroad Lightroom Adventure Archive will feature a consolidated "best of" set of images selected by the photographers and streamed DIRECTLY to the O'Reilly Publishing website which will publish the "Adventure Team Image Stream"

DRR President, Maris Berzins, adds, "By integrating Adobe Lightroom and Digital Railroad into a photographers workflow, we greatly reduce the time from shutter click to sale. Digital Railroad also provides a great showcase for these photographers giving their amazing imagery even greater exposure to a whole new world of potential buyers."

To keep up to date with the goings-on in Tasmania, check out the Lightroom Adventure archive or subscribe to the RSS Feed and see images as they are added in real time.

Blogs posts from Jeff Pflueger and other participating photographers in the field are available at: http://blogs.oreilly.com/adventure/2008/04/in-the-digital-candy-store.html