What a jammed packed weekend I had full of friends, wine, cameras - it all equals out to a whole lot of fun. The Nashville photography Meet-up group members are some of the most awesome people you will ever meet. Any time spent with them is always fantastic. This past Saturday we all met out at the Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, Tn which just happens to be owned by Kix Brook, you know..the one from Brooks and Dunn country Duo! The sun finally made an appearance and temps around 70 made for a beautiful day. It also meant that a whole lot of people would be out and about. I believe they all showed up at the vineyard on Saturday. Everyone there was stretched out on the grass soaking up the sun! As I was way to busy running my mouth catching up with everyone, I ended up just toting my camera around and not doing much shooting. I did manage a couple of shots to test out my BRAND NEW Tamron 70-200 F2.8 lens. It sure has a sweet bokeh (background).
Here is a shot of Wendy – the Meet-up group Co-Organizer who couldn’t have picked a better place to celebrate the arrival of Spring. For those that want to know – some photo info: used my new tamron 70-200 f2.8, edited in photoshop by simple adding a color overlay and a slight texture border – both from Kalidescope.
On Sunday my shooting buddy Jeremy and I went out for a bit. We first hit Nice Mill. Since I didn’t win the “lensbaby composer” lens that was given away at Saturdays meetup, I decided that I should just use the Lensbaby 3G that I already owned.(I really really really wanted that composer, guess I shouldn’t be to dang greedy though.) I made a few shots with the lensbaby and I have to say that I LOVE what I got. A lensbaby doesn’t fit everyones one style of photography. I just happen to have fell in love with it when Craig Strong made the first Original Lensbaby several years ago.
editing info ~ simple used an action called “lomo” by Nic V.
Lastly, Jeremy and I met up with Rhonda over at Walterhill Dam. As it turned out, the rain from the night before caused this not to be a great place to shoot. Some times you can just have to much water . I managed one shot that I kind of liked.
editing info ~ to much to name as I don’t remember it all 
but it’s basically and HDR (3 exp). Bumped up the saturation for the water, made the sky purple (because I can) and added some sun rays.
And to those that were at Arrington – Purple Peeps and Belly buttons make for great photo ops and conversations ~
SHEILA ROCKS!
Very nice Donna, it was great to see you Saturday.
great shots Donna. It was a fun weekend
Beautiful pics. Great to see you at the meetup. I’ve discovered that I missed visiting with a few people from our group. The place was so busy. I think I was way too busy running my mouth catching up with everyone, too. Fun times!
Donna, these are awesome photos and I think you rock more!!!
Great shots! I love the Walter Hill shot. You are so awesome with your editing as well as your shooting! I hope it smelled better this time! I had fun getting to hang out with you and everyone else at Arrington on Sat. Great fun! Great friends! AND GREAT WINE!
It was a GREAT weekend! Looking forward to more of these!
Love the shots