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Cathedral Basilica

This past weekend, Rose and I had the opportunity to do something we haven't done in a few years - attend a wedding as guests, instead of photographers! Some friends of ours, Bill and Veronica, were kind enough to invite us to their wedding celebration in Newark, NJ at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Very intentionally, I took few pictures the entire afternoon and evening, but I couldn't resist sharing a couple of snapshots of this remarkably beautiful church.

Last Day for Suite Savings

Time's running out on the $150 you can save on the onOne Plug-In Suite 4.5 - if you're interested purchasing some of the best plug-in tools available for photoshop, the price can't get much better than this.

Click the graphic below to be taken to the onOne site, but hurry - the link goes away tonight at Midnight!

Lightroom 2.4 Available

Don't you just love getting that friendly reminder when you start Lightroom that a new version is available!

In any event, Adobe has fixed a couple more bugs and added support for a bunch of new cameras (including Nikon's D5000) - so if you leave your camera in NYC on the way to Italy and have to buy a new camera - or you're just a regular Joe that wants the latest and great from Adobe - make sure to download Lightroom 2.4. You can find it, here.

BorrowLenses.com - Renting a Lens (part 3)

So I owe you a couple shots from the Sigma 8mm fisheye lens that I rented to document the whole BorrowLenses.com process. Before I returned the lens last Thursday, I stopped by one of my favorite local photography locations, the Manassas National Battlefield Park. 

I'm definitely not a pro when it comes to using a fisheye. For me, this is a difficult lens to compose, and I consistantly found my feet in the photograph! (180-degree field of view, means 180-degrees up and down as well as left to right in this case!) However, I managed to capture a couple imaging I liked. Including an HDR of Stone Bridge and another shot of the cannon battery that I used for an HDR shot I shared on the blog last year.

As far as returning the lens to BorrowLenses.com was concerned, things were easy. Included in the original package was a FedEx return label. I simply repackaged the lens in the box it came in, packing taped the box shut, and slapped the return label on the outside. After that, a quick stop to drop it off at the FedEx Kinkos in Manassas and the transaction was complete.

Yesterday, after receiving the lens and processing it (making sure it was clean, and in good condition) - I received an email from BorrowLenses.com thanking me for taking care of the lens, thanking me for my patronage, and asking me to fill out a brief customer satisfaction survey. From start to finish this was a great experience.

Very simple, and a great value. I recommend BorrowLenses.com to anyone who has a need for a particular lens for a short assignment or just wants to try out a lens before purchase.

If you're interested here are links to Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.