Finally!

All my photos are now loaded, backed up, and imported into Lightroom. The grand total as of today is 50,532. That includes personal photos dating back to '03 and work photos since '05. The breakdown is something like 13,000ish and 37,000ish, respectively. Now I can kick back and add metadata when I get bored. But most of all, future photography will be a breeze to keep track of. I highly recommend Scott Kelby's digital photographer series of books (Lightrooom & Photoshop CS2 particularly). Of all the how-to books I've read in my lifetime - there have been quite a few - Kelby is hands-down the best author. I learned in 20 minutes how to remove all the power lines from behind the 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' sign (I bet you never knew they were there if you've never seen it). And best of all - even I can't tell they were there. The only 'Photoshopping' I do is to personal photos, but it's a great knowledge to have.

I'd like to mention an accolade; Metro Sports online magazine (Washington D.C. based) picked a photo of mine for the 'Year in Sports' photo submissions. The photo was one of 10 (not #1, apparently) picked to represent the Virginia-D.C. area's best sports captures of the year. The photo was one I took for the Richmond Sportsbackers. It was of Catriana Morrison (1st Place Female, from Great Britain) at the finish line of the 2007 Long-Course Duathlon World Championships, held for the first time ever in the United States. It was quite an event, and I'd like to thank the Sportsbackers for giving me the opportunity to photograph such a once-in-a-lifetime event. I'd also like to thank Rick Barlow for assisting me by covering the running photography. I also did the course map graphics and video on the Du World's site.